Episodes

  • Creativity and AI
    Dec 27 2022

    Join Emmanuel M. Arriaga and Mr. Anonymous in today's Collaborating Conversations Podcast episode as they discuss the Future of Graphics and Arts. Tune in as they dive into "Creativity and A.I."

    This episode also features topics like:

    Topic overview: Creativity and A.I.

    Stable Diffusion (Prompt A.I.)

    The artistic process in building Foundra

    The effect of art generating A.I. on Artists

    The evolution of technology and computers

    The capabilities of Advance Artificial Intelligence

    Featured Sci-fi Character: Skippy

    Featured Sci-fi Book: Columbus day (Book 1 of The Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson)

    Foundra Character Introduction: Ellipse (Synaptic Systems Intelligence Created by Kenchu)

    Foundra Universe’s A.I.: Synaptic Systems Intelligence or S.S.I.

    Humans, A.I. And Robots

    Featured Sci-fi Character: Bob

    Featured Sci-fi Book: The Bobiverse By Dennis E. Taylor

    Featured Sci-fi Games: Horizon Zero Dawn, Halo

    Featured Sci-fi Movie: The Expanse

    About Emmanuel M. Arriaga

    Emmanuel M. Arriaga is an award winning author with an engineering, cyber security and data privacy background working in the Technology sector. He is best known for the Foundra Series, a sci-fi space opera and National Indie Excellence Award (NIEA) Finalist. His rich worlds introduce diverse characters and expansive worldbuilding with innovative technologies and concepts. He is a bronze winner of the Readers' Favorite Award for Best Young Adult Action Novel and a TopShelf Book Award winner.

    For more information, you can follow him on:

    Website: https://www.emmanuelmarriaga.com/ 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelarriaga/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmanuel_m_arriaga/  or https://www.instagram.com/foundra_universe/
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelmarriaga/

    You can order a copy of "Foundra" from Amazon by clicking on the link below: https://bit.ly/book1foundra 

    Be part of our collaborative community website about Foundra that anyone, including you, can build and expand. Check out "Foundra" on Fandom.com

    Music by Mona Wonderlick

    Free download: http://bit.ly/free-range-download

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  • Alien Invasion in Sci-Fi
    Nov 30 2022

    Join Emmanuel M. Arriaga, Max Naza, and Mr. Anonymous as they talk about the very popular science fiction phenomenon, “Alien Invasion.” Sit back and enjoy today’s episode of The Collaborating Conversations Podcast.

    This episode also features topics like:

    Topic Overview: Alien Invasion

    Human's initial behavior toward Superior species

    Featured Novel: Skyward Series by Brandon Sanderson

    Human-Alien Conflict

    Featured Novel: Death World by Harry Harisson

    Featured Novel: Startrek

    Featured Sci-fi Movie: Independence day

    Featured Novel: Expeditionary Force by Craig Alanson

    Sci-fi mainstream focus: Human perspective on Aliens Vs. Alien’s perspective on Humans

    Featured Novel: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

    Effect of Alien Invasion on Human’s Intelligence

    Featured Sci-fi Show: Earth: Final Conflict

    Alien Colonization : Communication problem

    Featured Sci-fi Movie: Arrival

    Hummanity on Super advanced species

    Power of words in the technologically advanced world

    Featured Sci-fi Game: Horizon Zero Dawn

    Technology and Aliens

    Featured Sci-fi Movie: Avengers End Game

    Humanity losing to Aliens

    About Emmanuel M. Arriaga

    Emmanuel M. Arriaga is an imaginative, award-winning author with an engineering background in technology. He is best known for the Foundra Series, a sci-fi space opera and National Indie Excellence Award (NIEA) Finalist. His rich worlds introduce diverse characters and expansive worldbuilding with innovative technologies and concepts. He is a Readers' Favorite for Best Young Adult Action Novel Bronze Winner and a TopShelf Book Award Winner.



    For more information, you can follow him on:



    Website: https://www.emmanuelmarriaga.com/ 


    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelarriaga/ 


    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmanuel_m_arriaga/  or https://www.instagram.com/foundra_universe/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelmarriaga/

    You can order a copy of "Foundra" from Amazon by clicking on the link below: https://bit.ly/book1foundra 


    Be part of our collaborative community website about Foundra that anyone, including you, can build and expand. Check out Foundra on Fandom.com

    Music by Mona Wonderlick

    Free download: http://bit.ly/free-range-download

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  • Time travel theories in scifi
    Oct 11 2022

    Welcome to another episode of Collaborating Conversations Podcast with your hosts, Emmanuel M. Arriaga and Max Naza, as they talk about the theories behind the mainstream science phenomenon in famous movies like Avengers, The Umbrella Academy, Time traveler's wife, and Back to the future, "Time Travel."


    This episode also features topics like:



    What and how Time travel works

    Grandfather Paradox & Predestination Paradox

    Multiverse Theory

    Featured Series: Time traveler’s wife, The butterfly effect, The umbrella academy, MCU

    Origin of Time Travel Concept

    Evolution of Time Travel Concept from 14th to 21st century

    Memories: ( unreliability of human mind )

    Time and Space

    Technology Advancement

    Body and Consciousness in time travel

    Mandela Effect

    Introduction of Vempiir: Species on the Foundra Universe




    About Emmanuel M. Arriaga


    Emmanuel M. Arriaga is an imaginative, award-winning author with an engineering background in technology. He is best known for the Foundra Series, a sci-fi space opera and National Indie Excellence Award (NIEA) Finalist. His rich worlds introduce diverse characters and expansive worldbuilding with innovative technologies and concepts. He is a bronze winner of the Readers' Favorite Award for Best Young Adult Action Novel and a TopShelf Book Award Finalist.


    For more information, you can follow him on:


    Website: https://www.emmanuelmarriaga.com/ 


    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelarriaga/ 


    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmanuel_m_arriaga/  or https://www.instagram.com/foundra_universe/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelmarriaga/

    You can order a copy of "Foundra" from Amazon by clicking on the link below: https://bit.ly/book1foundra 

    Be part of our collaborative community website about Foundra that anyone, including you, can build and expand. Check out Foundra on Fandom.com

    Music by Mona Wonderlick

    Free download: http://bit.ly/free-range-download

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  • The Fall of Galactic Civilizations in Sci-Fi Part 2
    Sep 21 2022

    Welcome to another episode of Collaborating Conversations Podcast with your hosts, Emmanuel M. Arriaga, Mr. Anonymous and Max Naza, as they talk more about The Fall Of Galactic Civilizations in Science Fiction and its effect on character narratives.



    This episode also features topics like:


    The emotional wave of finishing a book

    Featured Novel: Ancillary Mercy ( Imperial Radch #3 ) by Ann Leckie

    Two ways to end a book (Author’s approach)

    Sci-fi Series featured: Expanse

    Stargate Atlantis: The Ancients (Energy Beings)

    Foundra Series: (Multi-book stand-alone novel)

    What is a D&D Campaign

    What is an Epilogue

    The Fall of Galactic Civicilzation’s effect to a Character’s Narrative

    Character Analysis: Bob ( The Bobiverse )

    Galactic Civilizations in The Mass Effect Game

    Sci-Fi Game featured: Starcraft

    Starcraft: Xel’Naga

    Sci-Fi Series Featured:  Andromeda



    About Emmanuel M. Arriaga


    Emmanuel M. Arriaga is an imaginative, award-winning author with an engineering background in technology. He is best known for the Foundra Series, a sci-fi space opera and National Indie Excellence Award (NIEA) Finalist. His rich worlds introduce diverse characters and expansive worldbuilding with innovative technologies and concepts. He is a Readers' Favorite for Best Young Adult Action Novel Bronze Winner and a TopShelf Book Award Winner.



    For more information, you can follow him on:



    Website: https://www.emmanuelmarriaga.com/ 


    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelarriaga/ 


    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmanuel_m_arriaga/  or https://www.instagram.com/foundra_universe/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelmarriaga/

    You can order a copy of "Foundra" from Amazon by clicking on the link below: https://bit.ly/book1foundra 


    Be part of our collaborative community website about Foundra that anyone, including you, can build and expand. Check out Foundra on Fandom.com

    Music by Mona Wonderlick

    Free download: http://bit.ly/free-range-download

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  • The Fall of Galactic Civilizations in Sci-Fi Part 1
    Sep 6 2022

    Today's episode is about The Fall Of Galactic Civilizations in Science Fiction, hosted by Emmanuel M. Arriaga, Max Naza, and Mr. Anonymous.

    Please tune into this podcast as Emmanuel shares his perspective as a Sci-Fi Author on a theme or phenomenon in science fiction films, series, and novels.

    This episode also features topics like:

    Sci-fi Series books featured: Bobiverse, Expeditionary Force, Stargate Atlantis, The Expanse

    The ancient technology and advanced species in the universe

    The Expanse: The Ring Builders

    Sci-fi Author featured: A.G. Riddle

    Stargate Atlantis: The Ancients (Energy Beings)

    The Progress of Galactic Civilizations

    Expeditionary Force: Skippy and Super Advance Technology

    Why Humans want  Nirvana

    Bobiverse: Evolution of Technology

    Foundra: Imprisonment of Sagren and Enesmic Energy (Ancient Orb)

    Foundra Winning “TopShelf Book Award 1st Place Award

    The Apocalypse Genre Vs. Galactic Apocalypse

    The Expanse: Dark gods(The Ring Entities) 

    The Driving Narrative of Sci-fi books, games, and series

    Sci-fi Game featured: Mass Effect



    About Emmanuel M. Arriaga

    Emmanuel M. Arriaga is an imaginative, award-winning author with an engineering background in technology. He is best known for the Foundra Series, a sci-fi space opera and National Indie Excellence Award (NIEA) Finalist. His rich worlds introduce diverse characters and expansive worldbuilding with innovative technologies and concepts. He is a Readers' Favorite for Best Young Adult Action Novel Bronze Winner and a TopShelf Book Award Winner.


    For more information, you can follow him on:


    Website: https://www.emmanuelmarriaga.com/ 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelarriaga/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmanuel_m_arriaga/  or https://www.instagram.com/foundra_universe/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelmarriaga/

    You can order a copy of "Foundra" from Amazon by clicking on the link below: https://bit.ly/book1foundra 

    Be part of our collaborative community website about Foundra that anyone, including you, can build and expand. Check out Foundra on Fandom.com Music by Mona Wonderlick

    Free download: http://bit.ly/free-range-download

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  • The singularity in sci-fi part 2
    Aug 23 2022

    Episode 7 of the Collaborating Conversations Podcast is a continuation of Episode 6, in which Emmanuel Arriaga and his co-hosts discussed technology, Artificial Intelligence, and Singularity in Science Fiction.

    This episode also features topics like:


    Evolution of technology

    Future of Technology

    The concept of A.I. in Singularity

    Featured Series: The Expanse ( television series )

    Extensive knowledge in Singularity

    Utopia: A.I.s and Humans

    Featured Series: The Bubble (The bubble universe ) by Jason Werbeloff

    Being a human to machine

    Featured Series: Fall by Neil Stephenson

    Featured Series: Explorando

    Artificial Intelligence in Foundra 

    Today’s machines

    Digital Entity or Mortal Entity


    About Emmanuel M. Arriaga

    Emmanuel M. Arriaga is an imaginative, award-winning author with an engineering background in technology. He is best known for the Foundra Series, a sci-fi space opera and National Indie Excellence Award (NIEA) Finalist. His rich worlds introduce diverse characters and expansive worldbuilding with innovative technologies and concepts. He is a bronze winner of the Readers' Favorite Award for Best Young Adult Action Novel and a TopShelf Book Award Finalist.

    For more information, you can follow him on:

    Website: https://www.emmanuelmarriaga.com/ 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelarriaga/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmanuel_m_arriaga/  or https://www.instagram.com/foundra_universe/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelmarriaga/

    You can order a copy of "Foundra" from Amazon by clicking on the link below:

    https://bit.ly/book1foundra 

    Be part of our collaborative community website about Foundra that anyone, including you, can build and expand. Check out Foundra on Fandom.com 

    Music by Mona Wonderlick

    Free download: http://bit.ly/free-range-download

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  • The singularity in Sci-Fi
    Aug 16 2022

    Today's episode of Collaborating Conversations Podcast is all about technology, Artificial Intelligence, and what Singularity means in Science Fiction. This episode also discusses books and series that deal with A.I. and Singularity in Scifi.

    This episode also features topics like:

    Introduction of Artificial Intelligence

    Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark

    Concept of Sensient Technologies

    What can be identified as A.I.?

    The Danger of A.I.

    Introduction of Ellipse ( Foundra’s A.I. Character )

    The Concept of Singularity in Scifi ( Unity between Humanity and A.I.)

    The Culture by Iain Banks

    Surrogates by Robert Venditti

    Benevolent and Malevolent Artificial Intelligence

    A.I. effects on society, economy, and human development

    History of Technology and Computer Science

    Machine Evolution And Revolution

    Ethics, A.I., and the future of humanity

    Progression of Technology 

    Featured Series: Startrek


    About Emmanuel M. Arriaga

    Emmanuel M. Arriaga is an imaginative, award-winning author with an engineering background in technology. He is best known for the Foundra Series, a sci-fi space opera and National Indie Excellence Award (NIEA) Finalist. His rich worlds introduce diverse characters and expansive worldbuilding with innovative technologies and concepts. He is a bronze winner of the Readers' Favorite Award for Best Young Adult Action Novel and a TopShelf Book Award Finalist.

    For more information, you can follow him on:

    Website: https://www.emmanuelmarriaga.com/ 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelarriaga/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmanuel_m_arriaga/  or https://www.instagram.com/foundra_universe/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelmarriaga/

    You can order a copy of "Foundra" from Amazon by clicking on the link below:

    https://bit.ly/book1foundra 

    Be part of our collaborative community website about Foundra that anyone, including you, can build and expand. Check out Foundra on Fandom.com 

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  • Foundra Deep Dive Part 5
    Aug 10 2022

    Part 5 of Foundra Deep Dive episode is more about Emmanuel Arriaga on the stages of becoming an author, how an author can write a good book, phases of writing, and a continued discussion on the book "Foundra."

    This episode also features topics like:

    How to start writing your book

    Creating the Foundra Universe ( Knowing the beginning and the end )

    Writing the story ( Foundra series )

    Becoming a good author

    A new modern fantasy novel from Emmanuel Arriaga

    Plot-driven story vs. Character-driven story

    Story analysis ( Doctor Strange 1 and 2 )

    Character analysis ( Transformer’s Optimus Prime )

    R.A. Salvatore: How he first wrote a story

    Rewriting Foundra

    Writing the story: Plots and Cliffhangers

    Book 3 of the Foundra Series


    About Emmanuel M. Arriaga

    Emmanuel M. Arriaga is an imaginative, award-winning author with an engineering background in technology. He is best known for the Foundra Series, a sci-fi space opera and National Indie Excellence Award (NIEA) Finalist. His rich worlds introduce diverse characters and expansive worldbuilding with innovative technologies and concepts. He is a bronze winner of the Readers' Favorite Award for Best Young Adult Action Novel and a TopShelf Book Award Finalist.

    For more information, you can follow him on:

    Website: https://www.emmanuelmarriaga.com/ 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuelarriaga/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emmanuel_m_arriaga/  or https://www.instagram.com/foundra_universe/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emmanuelmarriaga/

    You can order a copy of "Foundra" from Amazon by clicking on the link below:

    https://bit.ly/book1foundra 


    Be part of our collaborative community website about Foundra that anyone, including you, can build and expand. Check out Foundra on Fandom.com

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