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THIS WEEK (31 August/1 September 2003) on SCI-FI OVERDRIVE, heard on the Business Talk Radio Network: The Universe and Enderverse collide! Hr. 2- science fiction author Orson Scott Card. Hr. 3- Dr. Michelle thaller on the Space InfraRed Telescope Facility. Hr. 4- Prof. Lynn Cominsky on the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope. Hour 1 (2 AM ET): sci-fi news and commentary, including the Weekly World News world news of the week with your hosts Joey Donovan, David Durica, Erich Landstrom, Lauren Urban, and Charles Blake. Hour 2 (3 AM ET): The “Sci Sky” with Stuart Goldman, associate editor of the essential magazine of astronomy “Sky and Telescope.” Interview with Orson Scott Card. Card created Ender Wiggin, perhaps the most beloved—and the most complicated—character in contemporary science fiction. When "Ender's Game," the novella that introduced Ender, was first published over 25 years ago, few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history. Expanded into a novel in 1985, Ender's Game has become a cultural phenomenon. It won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel, has never been out of print, and has been translated into dozens of languages. Now, Tor Books is proud to publish FIRST MEETINGS in the Enderverse, an illustrated hardcover collection of novellas set in Ender's world. Within the pages of FIRST MEETINGS in the Enderverse, readers will learn of Ender's origins—and his destiny. Visit the author at: www.hatrack.com! Hour 3 (4 AM ET): Interview with Dr. Michelle Thaller. Thaller manages the education and public outreach program for the recently launched Space InfraRed Telescope Facility. She also writes a monthly science column for the Christian Science Monitor. She received a B.S. degree from Harvard in 1992 and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Georgia State University in 1998. Her research interests have included hot stars, colliding stellar winds, binary star evolution and evolved stellar companions. When she is not out teaching the masses about infrared astronomy and SIRTF, Thaller may be seen renaissance dancing! SIRFT will search for “the Old, the Cold, and the Dirty,” referring to the oldest, coldest and most dust-obscured objects and processes in outer space: intergalactic dust clouds, stellar discs, and comets. Sensing that heat would allow astronomers to detect discs around other stars where planets may be forming, and provide valuable information about the early life of the universe. More information about the mission is available at http://sirtf.caltech.edu Hour 4 (5 AM ET): Interview with Dr. Lynn Cominsky. Cominsky is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Sonoma State University. She leads the education and public outreach efforts (and is a co-investigator) for the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Mission and NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST). GLAST is an international and multi-agency mission planned for launch in 2006. It will study the cosmos looking at objects that emit high energy wavelengths, such as black holes, hyernovae, colliding binary neutron stars, and uber-mysterious gamma ray bursters. More information about the mission is available at http://glast.sonoma.edu/ SCI-FI OVERDRIVE is the only nation-wide weekly radio talk show exclusively covering science fiction and its related genres, such as comic books, animation, role-playing, horror and fantasy. We also highlight real science stranger sounding than fiction, including astronaut interviews, NASA news on missions of discovery and exploration, and the "Sci Sky" with Stuart Goldman, associate editor of the essential magazine of astronomy, Sky & Telescope. 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