Hello, SFIA audio listeners, in this month's Nebula exclusive, Big Alien Theory,

we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge.

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Welcome everybody.

We're doing our live stream for April and we're going to go ahead and get started with questions almost right away.

So as we get into these, go ahead and post yours in the chat window and the mods will come

by and grab them as usual and get them posted out to me so I can see them.

While we're waiting for those to get in there though, let's go at the schedule real quick,

and we'll also take a couple questions from Facebook that we have ready to go.

This last week, obviously, we had Matioska Shellboards and the slightly out-of-time bonus episode

Post-apocalyptic Civilizations, which was supposed to come out last

Sunday, but got delayed for Easter.

And then this upcoming week, we have a Black Hole Ships episode, and you'll be able to see

the schedule, you know, middenly up on the left-hand corner of your screen as we go.

Let's go ahead and get started with the questions. We have one from Lucas

and says, do you consider your channel to be a good guide for aspiring sci-fi authors? What audience

do you have in mind when you sit down to write a script? We have, you know, our target audience

is kind of the sci-fi and science crowd. We never really try to go away from the science angle of these things,

but we do always try to premise everything from a sci-fi angle.

And the original episode was actually with sci-fi authors in mind,

just because of the time I was part of a world-building group on Facebook.

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