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Anil Menon is joining Gadi as co-host for a one-hour discussion on science fiction and change, bringing along friends and colleagues Christopher Brown, Claude Lalumière, Geoff Ryman, Nisi Shawl, and Vandana Singh. This Saturday, 19 September.

Photo by Lenin Estrada from Pexels. Experts on AI and ethics will join Steve Orrin, Gadi and Karen on the show for an in-depth professional discussion of the topic. This Saturday September 12Continue reading “AI and Ethics: Professionals Speak”

Join us for a show with those who planned and executed the marketing of legends. On Saturday the 5th of September Dave Farland will join us to discuss his plan with Scholastic for making Harry Potter big. Ed Elbert will discuss the advertising of Star Wars. Craig Miller will share the stories of fandom and community outreach for Star Wars. And, Brian Meeks will bring us to 2020 with a discussion of self-publishing. Joining Gadi and Karen to co-host the show will be Morgan Hazelwood.

Nisi Shawl will join Gadi to co-host a show on music and spirituality in the creative process. Nisi will be joined by Iya Oshunmiwa for a discussion of West African religious traditions and how Nisi’s work relates to those traditions. Iya Oshunmiwa is a Priest of Oshun and professional storyteller
. Nisi and Gadi will explore the role of music in Nisi’s life and work, and we’ll also have a reading from Nisi’s work.

Kevin Hearne, Chuck Wendig, and Delilah S. Dawson will join us on Saturday, along with special guest Amal El-Mohtar who will come back on the show to interview Kevin aboutContinue reading “Kevin Hearne And Friends on Location Scouting, and Nature Photography”

Sheree Renée Thomas will join Gadi to co-host a show on Afrofuturism, the magic of storytelling and music, and the power of community and art to effect personal and prophetic change. Also coming on the show will be Andrea Hairston, Pan Morigan, and Danian Darrell Jerry.

Maurice Broaddus will join Gadi and Karen this Saturday (11 July) for an interview, and then “flip the script” and interview his interviewers on the youth movement taking the lead in the recent Black Lives Matter protests, steering the conversation for the world they want to create.

The Hugo Awards finalists in the Best Short Story and Best Editor Short Form categories will be joining Gadi and Karen on the show for panel discussions. Also joining the show will be world-famous mentalist Lior Manor, for our weekly show corner.

We created Essence of Wonder because we believe in the power and possibility of visionary futures. We love science fiction and fantasy because of the potential, and the promise that they provide. But all good stories contain a moment where the horrors of what people can do to one another must be named, and must be confronted. The hard truth is that we have not only reached, but passed this point in our own world–We must now face the silence that has allowed such injustices to perpetuate and ask ourselves, “what next?”.