Lets try something a bit different this week episode 144. I want to let authors know that they can send in stories for reading. Don't panic, I am not going to change the type of fiction that BMU runs, however it's always been me reading something and then asking. The only author that regularly submits to BMU is Shaun Saunders. Now Shaun isn't going anywhere (are ya buddy?! lol) I just wonder if there is something out there I am missing. So if you have a story unpublished or otherwise and want me to consider it for airing, think about sending it to to me at beammeup@gwi.net. Oh and you can write for the guidelines that I use now for considering stories for reading. So, the real break is that the last time Roy was sitting in he told me about this short story that he read by a 12 year old. I said send it along and I will take a look. Well it wasn't science fiction, but then neither was 9 Sundays in a Row, but in it's favor was the fact that it was real short. So I will read it on today's program. That's Ashley Thomas' The yellow Ribbon. Plus I finish Michael Burstein's Paying it Forward. You thought you had this story figured out last week? Not a chance. Michael has not set all the knots yet, so there are a couple more twists and I guarantee that when he brings it home there won't be a dry eye in the place!
And from the blog - is a real robot brain that works like a human brain closer than we think?, we get a look at the Arthur C. Clarke award long list, US and Russian satellites collide, and where is all the cool tech that the movies said we would have by now?
I think you will enjoy this week's program. Take a listen
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