Jim Baen’s Universe, a bimonthly genre subscription webzine edited by Eric Flint and Mike Resnick, has “teamed-up” with the Parsec Award winning podcast The Future And You. This is a futurist related show hosted by “transhumanist”, “futurist” and SF author Stephen Euin Cobb. As a part of their agreement Euin Cobb is adding another 10 minutes of content to his podcast. This will be Jim Baen’s Universe created content and may include authors reading excerpts from their stories. In exchange Euin Cobb now has two columns in the JBU e-zine.
I like the guests and some of content on The Future and You but I find the format quite stiff. In the live interviews Euin Cobb comes off as a affable and interested, but during the news and commentary segments, which takes up a lot of the show, his reading is formal, like he’s reading a royal proclamation. This, coupled with the more than two hour long shows, makes me wish for a segmented prodcast or at the very least an “enhanced podcast” that would be set into segments. As it stands The Future And You podcasts come out regularly, on the 1st of each month in fact. The guests are varied and many are famous SF authors. Also included in the show is a segment in which Euin Cobb reads from his novel Bones Burnt Black.
You can try it out for yourself, subscribe to the podcast via this feed:
http://www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/rss