{"id":6988,"date":"2013-06-01T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T00:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=6988"},"modified":"2013-05-30T22:48:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T02:48:21","slug":"talkcast-185-the-ministry-of-peculiar-occurrences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=6988","title":{"rendered":"Talkcast 185 &#8211; The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pipandtee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6991\" alt=\"pipandtee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pipandtee-300x192.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pipandtee-300x192.jpg 300w, http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/pipandtee.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantfreakinrobot.com\/scifi\/jack-vance-science-fiction-grand-master-dead-96.html\">Jack Vance, Science Fiction Grand Master, Dead At 96<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kickstarter of the week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantfreakinrobot.com\/scifi\/planetary-resources-launching-crowdfunded-space-telescope-2015.html\">Crowdfunding a space telescope<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chris Hardwick\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/scifimafia.com\/2013\/05\/chris-hardwick-debuts-web-series-star-wars-course-of-the-force\/\">Course of the Force<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Catwoman died again&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifimafia.com\/2013\/05\/new-tv-spots-for-falling-skies-give-more-rules-education-and-creepy-hilarity\/\">Falling Skies Season 3: Creepy Funny<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/what-dan-harmon-in-talks-to-return-to-community-510141772\">WHAT!? Dan Harmon is in talks to return to Community<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2243973\/\">Hannibal<\/a> &#8211; What is this sorcery?!<\/li>\n<li>Poll:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/questions\/10151433051238144\/\">If JJ Abrams could bring anything to Star Wars from the Star Trek set, what would it be?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s guests are Tee Morris and Philippa Ballentine, co-authors of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com\/\">Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences<\/a>&#8211;the best selling, award winning steampunk series&#8211;which\u00a0also includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com\/short-stories\/\">digital short stories<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com\/category\/podcast\/\">free award winning podcast series<\/a>. After the success of the Ministry, and to keep their fans going until the next novel comes out, they&#8217;ve also started a Kickstarter called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1034531507\/the-ministry-initiative-steampunk-role-playing-and\">The Ministry Initiative<\/a>. This will fund two related projects: a short story anthology and an RPG. And as if that weren&#8217;t enough, we also talk about Archer, librarians vs. archivists, \u00a0and why NO ONE has control of the sound board after tonight.<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-24da8048-f874-b4f9-bda3-6fe2adb2590c\"><b id=\"docs-internal-guid-24da8048-f875-5da0-c2f9-162d1a018f87\"><br \/>\n<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<span id=\"pod_audio_1\">&nbsp;<\/span><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6988-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast185.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast185.mp3\">http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast185.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><a href='http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast185.mp3'>Download<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/castplayer?castfile=http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast185.mp3&id=6988\" rel=\"0\" class=\"newPlayerWindow\" >Open Player in New Window<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=6988\" data-text=\"Talkcast 185 - The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=6988\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fscifisaturdaynight.com%2F%3Fp%3D6988&#038;media=http%3A%2F%2F1.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F42248ed2a14add37660e9037700fe744%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dmm%26r%3Dpg&#038;description=Talkcast%20185%20-%20The%20Ministry%20of%20Peculiar%20Occurrences\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Vance, Science Fiction Grand Master, Dead At 96 Kickstarter of the week Crowdfunding a space telescope Chris Hardwick\u2019 Course of the Force Catwoman died again&#8230; Falling Skies Season 3: Creepy Funny WHAT!? 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