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There’s a new website, Map the candidates.com that shows you where the presidential candidates have been during this campaign. So you can check for example, how much time they’ve spent in Iowa versus New Hampshire in the past few weeks.

New Hampshire Public Radio also has a new web site that lets you track the candidates in a very different way. Our broadcast series, Primary Place, has followed the voters of Exeter throughout this presidential season. Now, there’s Primary Place Online, a site where Exeter residents and YOU can post your impressions of the people who hope to lead this country.

Primaryplace.org is the brainchild of NHPR’s Executive Editor, Jon Greenberg and Jon joins me now.

Science Fiction is a genre that is sometimes so misunderstood, it can seem like its definition is open to interpretation. Tonight on the Front Porch, we're going back in time to the earliest roots of sc-fi literature to get a better understating of it. We'll find out why Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein" is widely considered the very first example of science fiction, and how the genre has evolved in the 200 years since its publication.

Our guest is Jeanne Cavelos, author of many books, including the Babylon 5 series. She'll lead a discussion called One Mother, Two Fathers: The History of Science Fiction tomorrow (Friday, October 5) at 7 p.m. at the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord. It's presented by the New Hampshire Humanities Council and the Center for the Book at the NH State Library. It's part of the Big Read project.