Producer and host Dr. Howard Margolin writes with the upcoming schedule for Destinies—The Voice of Science Fiction, which airs Fridays at 11:30PM on 90.1 FM, WUSB, Stony Brook, New York. The show is also netcast at www.wusb.fm; and archived at www.captphilonline.com/Destinies.html.

6 December 2013: Live telephone interview with author T.A. Barron, who returns for his seventh appearance to discuss and read from his novel Atlantis Rising.

13 December 2013: Saluting the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug with an abridged version of “The Rankin/Bass Production of the Hobbit” on the Destinies Radio Theater. In memory of author A.C. Crispin, part one of her Star Trek novel Yesterday’s Son on the Destinies Audiobook Sampler.

20 December 2013: Part two of Star Trek: Yesterday’s Son on the Destinies Audiobook Sampler. Christopher DeFilippis discusses another aspect of Christmas lore in volume 2, number 143 of “DeFlip Side.”

27 December 2013: “Graphic Detail” #192: Live show featuring the Graphic Detail’s 29th annual review of the best, worst, and most disappointing developments in the comic book industry for the past year.