Alpha Centauri & Beyond

 

The New View on Science and Science Fiction

By D. Wayne Dworsky,
Posted: May 10, 2013

 

Alpha Centauri & Beyond is about science and science fiction.  Host, D. Wayne Dworsky and Co-Host, Melissa Macfie discuss issues that modern science faces as well as science fiction novel plots, themes and special effects in motion pictures.  Each show features a separate theme.  Guests on the show include science experts and science fiction writers.  The show will air biweekly at 8 pm ET.  Listeners are invited to call into the live show at 646-378-0539 to ask questions or make comments about the show's contents or theme.

         

Each show will feature a different theme, starting with Mars.  In addition to a fresh theme for each episode, we will discuss a pivital point.  These pivital points illuminate a particular scientific breakthough and/or launch a dynamic, new way of factoring science into science fiction literature and science fiction movies.  Plus, each pitival point will try to extract how some important science fiction phenomenon influenced science. 

 

 

 

 

Alpha Centauri & Beyond 
 

The New View on Science and Science Fiction
By D. Wayne Dworsky,
Posted: May 10, 2013 

Alpha Centauri & Beyond is about science and science fiction.  Host, D. Wayne Dworsky and Co-Host, Melissa Macfie discuss issues that modern science faces as well as science fiction novel plots, themes and special effects in motion pictures.  Each show features a separate theme.  Guests on the show include science experts and science fiction writers.  The show will air biweekly at 8 pm ET.  Listeners are invited to call into the live show at 646-378-0539 to ask questions or make comments about the show's contents or theme.        

Each show will feature a different theme, starting with Mars.  In addition to a fresh theme for each episode, we will discuss a pivital point.  These pivital points illuminate a particular scientific breakthough and/or launch a dynamic, new way of factoring science into science fiction literature and science fiction movies.  Plus, each pitival point will try to extract how some important science fiction phenomenon influenced science. 

Episode 5, Nanites and EMP – The World of Subtle Exploitation.

Show Notes:
Best selling author, William Forstchen tells all about the potential EMP doomsday scenario. And Joseph Picard shares his nanites drama with Echoes of Erebus --- another scary scenario from the macro-world.
Show Blurb:

Best selling author, Dr. William Forstchen, talks about concerns of EMP raised in his hot new book, One Second After. EMP stands for Electromagnetic Pulse, which could wipe out all electronics in the United States. In an interview on Fox, Newt Gingrich and Greta Van Susteren probe the author for details about the potential of a doomsday scenario. One Second After

Now Joseph Picard writes a trilogy with tiny devices that perform a menacing operation. In Joseph’s latest work, Echoes of Erebus, which just left the presses August 3, he portrays the antagonist, Erebus, as a malevolent collective, who is bent on destroying an entire population in order to fulfill a childish recollection.