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In this week's behavior, we discuss how seeking prestige can be dangerous for writers, specifically in the form of MFA degrees and literary agents. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Sword of the Squire, Book #1 in the Dragonskull series (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills), at my Payhip store: SQUIRE50 The coupon code is valid through March 14, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook for spring, we've got you covered! 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates   Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 240 of The Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is February the 20th, 2025, and today we are discussing how to escape the trap of prestige that can sometimes catch writers, specifically in the form of MFA degrees and literary agents. Before we get into greater detail with that, we will start with Coupon of the Week and then an update on my current writing projects and then also a Question of the Week before we get to the main topic.   But first, let's start with Coupon of the Week. This week's coupon code will get you 50% off the audiobook of Dragonskull: Sword of the Squire, Book One of the Dragonskull series (as excellently narrated by Brad Wills), at my Payhip store. And that coupon code is SQUIRE50. The coupon code is valid through March 14th, 2025. So if you need a new audiobook as we head into spring, we have got you covered.   Now let's have an update on current writing projects. I am 94,000 words into Ghost in the Assembly. I had two 10,000 word days this week, which really moved the needle forward. We'll talk about those a little bit more later. I'm on Chapter 18 of 21, I believe, and if all goes well, I should hopefully finish the rough draft before the end of the month because I would like to get editing on that as soon as possible. For my next book, that will be Shield of Battle and I am 8,000 words into that and I'm hoping that'll come out in April. Ghost in the Assembly will be in March, if all goes well.   In audiobook news, recording for Cloak of Dragonfire (as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy) is finished and also recording on Orc-Hoard, the fourth book of the Half-Elven Thief series (as excellently narrated by Leanne Woodward). Both of those should be coming out sometime in March, if all goes well. So that's where I'm at with my current writing projects.   00:01:45 Question of the Week   And now let's move on to Question of the Week. Question of the Week is intended to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics. This week's question, if you have off work or school because of a snow day or extreme cold or other intense weather, what do you do with the day? No wrong answers. We had a number of responses to this.   Surabhi says: Ha, jokes on you! It never snows where I live. We do sometimes bunk school on rainy days, though. What I mostly do then is catching up on homework or listening to the rain.   Justin says: We're having a snow day here; schools and many businesses are closed. So Lord of the Rings Extended Edition movie marathon! Popcorn popped, hot cocoa and cold soda prepped. I have to admit, that seems like a very good idea.   Mary says: Read, write, watch the snow fall, try to exercise inside.   Michael says: That hasn't happened to me since about 1985, but I seem to recall it was on my birthday and boy was I happy to miss school on my birthday! I think I read fantasy books, drank tea, and played video games.   Juana says: curl up with a book and hot chocolate or tea.   John says: Haven't had a snow day since I was a child, but I did either play in the snow or read a book (at that age, Andre Norton, Lester del Rey, or Ben Bova). I'm relocating later this year back to colder climes, but since I now only work remotely and have for the past six years, sadly my days change very little.   Jenny says: Usually shovel snow, make a pot of warm food, more snow removal, watch movies or shows. Bob says: I'm retired now, so probably not much different than any other day, but when I was working, I'd probably be out shoveling snow so I can get to work whenever the roads were clear. Of course, that necessitated more shoveling when the snowplow dumped its load across the end of my driveway and that's why I moved south, where I rarely see snow.   Yes, if you live in a colder climes and you have a driveway, you know that you'll shovel the driveway and then immediately when you're done, these snowplow will come and block up the end of the driveway.   Finally, Dan says: For myself, I enjoy a free day. However, soon the home duties encroach on this free time.   For myself, the answer is clearly that I write 10,000 words on the first snow day and then again on the second day because I just had two days in a row where it was too cold to leave the house. So what I did was stay home and wrote 20,000 words of Ghost in the Assembly.   00:03:54 Main Topic: Escaping the Trap of Prestige, Part I   Now onto our main topic of the week, Escaping the Trap of Prestige, Part I-as it pertains to MFA (Master of Fine Arts) degrees and agents. I'd like to preface this by saying that I'm not looking to knock anyone who has a MFA or who has a literary agent, especially if it's working out for you and you're happy with it. What I'm trying to do here is warn younger writers who are just starting out about the potential consequences of these things, which can be very severe if you choose wrongly. So that is my goal with this episode, to help writers escape the potentially bad consequences of the prestige trap because newer writers in particular want validation. I mean, we all want validation, but writers especially want validation and new writers are very vulnerable to wanting validation to the point where it's been well known for years that there's a large scam industry of various things that take advantage of newer writers looking for validation such as vanity publishers, scammy agents, and a wide variety of other online publishing scams. This isn't to say that MFAs and literary agents are scams, though some literary agents have committed serious crimes (as we'll discuss later), but again, to warn against the danger of wanting prestige too badly and the bad decisions that can lead you to make. And some of this comes from the idea of success in life, especially in the United States and large parts of the Western world, is hitting certain milestones in a specific order. Like you graduate from college, you get a good job, you get married, you buy a house, you have your first kid, and if you don't do these things in the right order, there's something wrong with you and you have made mistakes in life, which isn't necessarily true, but is something that people can fall fall prey to and use to make destructive decisions. In the writing world, some of those measures of success have until fairly recently been getting a Master of Fine Arts degree, finding an agent, getting traditionally published, and hitting the New York Times list. As of this recording, I have sold well over 2 million books without following that normal route to writing success. In fact, I think it's closer to 2.25 million now, and I mention that not to toot my own horn, but to say that there are routes outside of the potentially dangerous prestige paths I'm talking about. And despite that, many aspiring writers feel they must follow that specific route to writer success, otherwise they aren't real writers. They've got to get the MFA, the agent, traditionally published, and then the New York Times list. The quest for prestige can keep writers from succeeding in two ways that are more significant, getting their work in front of readers who want to read it and deriving income from writing. So today in the first part of this two part episode series, we're going to talk about two of those writing markers of prestige, MFAs and literary agents. Why are they no longer as important? What should you devote your energy and focus to instead?   So number one, the Master of Fine Arts trap. The Master of Fine Arts in writing has often been seen as a marker of writing ability, especially in the world of literary fiction. And I think the big problem, one of the big problems with MFA, first of all is cost. Getting a Master of Fine Arts degree is expensive, especially if you are not fortunate enough to receive scholarships or assistantships and so have to rely on student loans. The average cost of an MFA program is in the mid five figures when all is said and done, not even counting living expenses and textbooks and so forth. If you have to take out student loans to pay for that, that is a considerable loan burden, especially if you already have loans from your undergraduate degree.   Even the people who get their MFA paid for (usually in exchange for teaching introductory writing classes to first year university students), the opportunity cost of taking two to three years to get this degree means you're sacrificing other things in your personal and professional life in order to get this MFA. It's a huge outlay of time and energy, especially if you're moving across the country for a residential program. And what are you getting in exchange for this massive outlay of time, money, and effort?   You probably aren't going to learn the practical non-writing skills that you need in the modern writing world like marketing, data collection and analysis, and publication strategies (all of which I do on a fairly regular basis in addition to writing). All of these skills are important for writers now, even if they are traditionally published. The problem with many MFA programs is that they rarely, if ever teach these skills. It seems that what MFAs train their students to do is to become adjunct faculty professors with semester to semester contracts, which can pay around $2,000 to $4,000 USD per writing or literature course at most small to mid-size colleges and universities in the United States. Being an adjunct professor does not confer any benefits like health insurance or retirement funds.   I was talking about this episode with my podcast transcriptionist and she mentioned once she was at a faculty meeting where an adjunct professor in English with an MFA did the math and realized based on her hourly wage (based on all the actual hours she put into a semester), if she worked at the local gas station chain, she would be making $7 per hour more at the local gas chain and she would be only working 40 hours a week. That can be a very dismaying realization, especially after all the work you have put into getting an MFA and teaching. Many defenders of the MFA degree will say that the real value of the degree is learning how to take criticism and learning to edit. But if you're writing in a genre outside of literary fiction, poetry, and memoirs, you are not likely to find a lot of useful advice. To return to my transcriptionist's tales from her time inside academia, she once told me of meeting a faculty member who confessed that he never read a fantasy book and had no idea how to critique or help these students, and he was a writing professor. He meant well, but he's not even remotely an outlier in terms of MFA instructors and their familiarity with mysteries, romance, and science fiction works and fantasy, which is what most genre fiction is nowadays. Also, the quality of advice and help you receive varies wildly based on the quality of your cohort and instructors and their willingness to help others. It's a steep investment with very, very uncertain returns.   So in short, an MFA takes a huge outlay of time and money with very few tangible benefits, especially with genre writers. In all frankness I would say an MFA is the kind of degree you should not go into debt to get and you should only get if you can have it paid for through scholarships or assistantships or so forth. So what should you do, in my opinion, other than an MFA degree? I think you should write as much as possible. You get better by practicing. You should read extensively. You will learn about writing by reading extensively, ideally in more than one genre. If you read enough and write enough, eventually you get to the moment where you read something and think, hey, I could do a better job than this. This is a major boost in confidence for any writer.   It might be a good idea to join a local or online writing group if you'd like critique from other writers. A warning that writing groups can vary wildly in quality and some of them have a bad case of crab bucket syndrome, so you may have to try more than one group to find one that works for you.   Another thing to do would be to listen to advice from successful writers. I saw a brief video from an author who recently pointed out that many people online giving writing advice aren't current or successful writers. One of the downsides of the Internet is that anyone can brand themselves an expert, whip together a course, and sell it online for a ridiculous fee. And people like this, their successes in creating methods or courses that turn writing into something more complicated to make aspiring writers reliant upon that process. Aspiring writers may end up spinning their wheels following all of these steps instead of getting to the actual work of churning out drafts. They may be spending money they can't afford in order to learn ineffective or even damaging strategies.   Many successful writers offer sensible advice for free, such as Brandon Sanderson posting his writing lectures for free on his YouTube channel. If you're looking for writing advice, you could do a lot worse than watching those lectures. And if you're going to take advice from anyone you read on the internet, it's probably better to take advice from successful writers who have demonstrated that they know what they are doing.   And finally, this may be more general advice, but it's a good idea to be open to learning and observing new experiences. It's probably a good idea to go to museums and cultural events, read about the latest developments in science and history, go on a hike in a new place, and observe the world around you. New writers often ask where writers get their ideas come from, and they very often come from just serendipitous things you can observe in the world around you. And that is also a good way to get out of your own head. If you're worried too much about writing, it's probably time to go for a long walk.   So why are agents potentially dangerous to writers? For a long time (for a couple decades, in fact), from I'd say from maybe the ‘80s and the ‘90s to the rise of the Kindle in the 2010s, the only realistic way to get published for most writers in terms of fiction was to get a literary agent. Publishers did not take unsolicited submissions (most of them did not), and you had to go through an agent to send your manuscript to a publisher. The agents were very selective for a variety of reasons. Because of that, a lot of newer writers still idealize the process of getting agents. You'll see this on Twitter and other social media platforms where new writers will talk constantly about getting agents and what they have to do. And the ones who do get a request from an agent to send in the full manuscript after sending a few query chapters are just besides themselves with joy. And those who do get agents can sometimes sound like they're showing off their new boyfriend or girlfriend, like my agent says they like my book, or my agent says this or that. And as you can probably imagine from my description, this is an arrangement that has a lot of potential danger for the writer.   The traditional first step in this time period I was mentioning after finishing a book has been to get as prestigious of an agent as possible to contact publishers and negotiate deals on their behalf. The agent takes 10 to 20% of what a publisher pays a writer, but in theory can get a writer a better deal and are acting in their best business interests. And as I mentioned before, most significantly, most publishers are not willing to read submissions that are not submitted by an agent. If getting traditionally published is the goal, an agent is the crucial first step. I mean, that's the ideal that we've been talking about. In reality, traditional publishing is as cautious and risk averse as it has ever been. Agents have followed suit. It takes industry connections and/or a significant social media presence to even get an agent to look at your book.   Writing query letters and trying to get an agent also takes away from writing and is a completely separate skillset, as is the networking and social media work that is part of this process. Some people have spent months or even years working on query letters and getting an agent when they could have finished another book or more in the same time. Alright, so that is the practical and logistical reasons it's a bad idea for a writer to seek out an agent, and I frankly think you'd be better off. And now we get to the potentially criminal ones.   The thing about literary agents is there's no licensing or requirement or anything of that nature. You can set up a website and call yourself a literary agent. If you consider something like a lawyer, by contrast, I'm sure those of you who are lawyers in the United States will have many complaints and stories about your state bar, which is in charge of licensing lawyers. But the point is that the state bar exists, and if a lawyer is behaving in an unethical or unscrupulous matter, that can be brought as complaint to the state bar. Nothing like that exists for literary agents at all. And because of that, scammy agents are everywhere. Some try to get writers to pay a fee upfront or other made up fees, or they get cuts from scammy book publishers or book packaging services. Or in general, they just try to squeeze every penny possible from aspiring writers. And this is often sadly very easy to do because as we've mentioned, many newer writers still think getting an agent is a major mark of prestige and humans crave prestige. And even if you get a prestigious and seemingly legitimate agent, that can potentially lead to life ruining problems because many of the legitimate agents are very sticky fingered.   Several years ago, the firm of Donadio and Olson, which represented Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, Godfather author Mario Puzo, and Catch 22 author Joseph Heller found out that one of their accountants had been stealing millions from their authors for many years. Although the accountant was sentenced to two years of prison, it's unlikely those authors will receive the money back fully. As Palahniuk put it in a blog post, “the legal process will be long and offers an iffy reward.” Mr. Palahniuk also lost out on money from touring to promote his books because of this crisis and said he was unable to support himself financially as a result of these stolen royalties.   By not filtering your royalties and earning statements through a literary agency that can falsify reports about these documents (as the accountant in question did), you have a full sense of what you are earning and what amounts you should be receiving. Amazon is open to many criticisms because of its decisions, but they pay monthly and they send a very detailed spreadsheet monthly to any Kindle authors of what books sold and what they expect to earn. It's sometimes almost too much data to process. The traditional publishing world would never even consider showing that to writers and agents often keep that from their writers. Palahniuk trusted his agency and accepted the explanations that rampant piracy and financial difficulties in the publishing world were keeping over a million dollars in royalties from him. He even later found out that this accountant was keeping non-financial correspondence from him. Returning to the topic of Brandon Sanderson, I recently saw an interview between him and a podcaster Tim Ferris. He made the interesting point that the power centers in publishing have shifted from traditional publishing agents to the platform holders and the writers, the platform holders being people like Amazon, Apple, and Google who have the platforms that sell the books and the writers who bring the books to those platforms. The power is shifted away from agents and publishers to the platforms and writers. And because of that, in my frank opinion, literary agents are obsolete for those wishing to publish independently.   And my frank opinion is also that you should be independently publishing and not trying to get an agent or go with a traditional publisher. There's no reason to give someone 15% when you can upload the files to a service like KDP yourself. An agent will not be able to get you a better royalty from KDP. Amazon does not negotiate royalty rates at the agent level, and you have to be a writer on the scale of J.K. Rowling or maybe Dean Koontz to get any kind of special deal from Amazon.   So what should you do instead of seeking out an agent? Publish independently or self-publish. Be wary of excuses and explanations that prey upon emotional responses or a sense of loyalty to individuals, such as the case of Chuck Palahniuk, where they preyed on his fears of piracy and the instability of the publishing industry, as well as sympathy for someone who claimed to be taking care of a family member with a terminal disease. That was one of the excuses they used for why the records weren't right. Ask for facts and verify everything regularly. Publishers and agents are not your friends and not your family, and do not accept that approach in your business relationship with them. Learn how to read and interpret any financial statements you receive. Don't trust a third party to do this for you, or if you must do that, make sure they're being audited regularly by a third party, not from just someone else at their firm.   So the conclusion is that in my opinion, the prestige of getting an MFA and an agent are currently not worth the trade-off and there are considerable risks that you take if your main goals are to build a following and sell books. Prestige is not going to put food on the table. And in fact, if you have five figures of student loan debt from an MFA, it may be keeping you from putting food on the table. So if you want to be a writer, I think both seeking out an MFA and seeking out an agent would be a waste of your time and possibly counterproductive.   Next week in Part Two, we'll discuss two more prestige traps in writing: getting traditionally published and hitting the New York Times Bestseller List.   That is it for this week. Thank you for listening to The Pulp Writer Show. I hope you found the show useful. A reminder that you can listen to all the backup episodes on https://thepulpwritershow.com. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review on your podcasting platform of choice. Stay safe and stay healthy and see you all next week.

Anton und Thomas lesen drei Geschichten von Andre Norton, Avram Davidson und L. Sprague de Camp - mit geheimnisvoller Spinnenseide, einer stilistisch angreifbaren Karawane, und einem Heldenpaar, dass die Fantasy-Zeit hinter sich lässt.

OLD MAGICMEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 173Originally aired LIVE Wednesday September 11,20247 PM ET /6 PM CT /5 PM MT /4 PM PT (US)Featuring Author CHRIS CHRISTMANABOUT CHRIS: Chris Christman is a 65 year old adventurer. He has always been curious by nature, and lived his life as such. Being born in Panama on a military base, and raised in New Jersey, his interests in different cultures, types of people and their lifestyles, he explored by engulfing himself in photography and travel.Reading anything he could get his hands on also played a big part in shaping his unique view of the world. He soon found out that science fiction would prove to be his favorite place to explore by reading the stories of Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Andre Norton, Roger Zelazny and others.More recently, urban fantasy taking more of his reading attention, Jim Butcher, Orlando Sanchez, Steve McHugh soon became favorites. They all influenced him to finally write his own stories down and as a result we have the Mixed Magic Saga. Using an unique twist of magic and science to entertain the reader.He lives in Missouri with his wife who's a social worker, two dogs and four cats.Links to watch or listen to all episodes at:https://indiebooksource.com/podcast

Year of the Unicorn by Andre Norton is a 1965 fantasy novel with subtle romantic elements. How does this vintage novel featuring outsider characters compare with today's romantasy? Romance reader Kassi joins Shelf Love to discuss Gillan's journey of identity, empowerment, and agency as she embarks on an adventure: arranged marriage with a were Rider. Would you give up your power for a beautiful fantasy? It's very demure, very mindful — this oldie is a goodie, although there are no unicorns.Discussed: Year of the Unicorn by Andre Norton (1965)Guest: Kassi Shelf Love:NEW! Substack for original writing and stuff | Website | Twitter | Instagram | YouTubeEmail: Andrea@shelflovepodcast.com

Welcome to LEVIATHAN PRESENTS! - A monthly segment where we highlight one audio fiction creator, have a conversation, and then play a full episode of their show right here in our feed. This month were welcoming back Jonathan Pezza to the show to discuss the new season of his series Curious Matter Anthology. Curious Matter Anthology is not your everyday podcast. It's a bridge between past and present, a time machine that takes listeners back to the golden era of science-fiction and supernatural horror, and then catapults them back into the future. It's an ode to the pulp era of science fiction, an era whose stories have influenced some of the greatest filmmakers of our time, and it's a tribute to the largely unrecognized authors who penned these tales. Season 3 will be the first time the podcast has dedicated an entire season to one story, The Exile; a police thriller set on Mars, Part Fistful of Dollars, part The Martian, THE EXILE is set 150 years in the future as Mars, a barely habitable world, struggles with widespread corruption and brutality. In a desperate bid to find a way home to Earth, Bryce - a disgraced federal agent exiled from Earth - finds herself forced to join the local police force, while navigating dangers from every angle as she discovers there is little difference between criminals and law enforcement in this frontier world. 200 years in the future the task of scouting newly charted solar systems is left to the legendary members of the Outhunter's Guild. When his survey of the planet Jumala fails to find anything of value, Outhunter, Rass Hume, decides to host a safari for wealthy tourists that crave adventure. Based on the novel Star Hunter by Andre Norton. If you enjoyed this episode and want to continue listening to The Exile click here, For more information please visit www.curiousmatterpodcast.com To discover more podcasts set in the Leviathan universe go to www.leviathanaudioproductions.com, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Campfire Classics, a Literary Comedy Podcast!! We're back! Sorry, that sounded kind of like a threat, didn't it?  No, just, like, "Hello! We're here! It's story time!" Ken has selected a story by an author new to the show. Born Alice Mary Norton, she legally changed her name to her primary pseudonym, Andre Norton. The Story is called "All Cats Are Gray," and it is a delightful little adventure without heavy topics or political themes.  Which mean Ken and Heather feel free to just riff and joke around without fear of offending anyone.  So, you know...things get weird. Heather reads well, but is interrupted by questions like: Is this our swiciest episode ever? No, that's not a typo. Does "it" feel like warm Cup of Noodles? Yes, that "it". What is that smell? The answer isn't not "corrupt taint." "All Cats Are Gray" was published in Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, August–September 1953. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. Email us at 5050artsproduction@gmail.com. Remember to tell five friends to check out Campfire Classics. Like, subscribe, leave a review. Now sit back, light a fire (or even a candle), grab a drink, and enjoy.

The fey Mr. Young continues his scholarly researches in the scientific origins of our myth and legend with this tale of an agile—and avaricious—one-man Boarding Party. Boarding Party by Robert F. Young, that's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.There are a lot of reasons we choose to narrate a story. Sometimes it has everything to do with the popularity of the author. Other times we're looking to bring an author to the podcast that we've never shared before, such was the case recently with Evelyn E. Smith, Leigh Brackett and Andre Norton. And sometimes we narrate a story because one of our listeners requested it.But today you will hear a story because we think it's fun. It's as simple as that. Our fun story appeared in Amazing Stories Magazine in September 1963. You'll find it on page 23, Boarding Party by Robert F. Young…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Who was it that lost out in the end? Pursued, or pursuer, on this hideous little rock in space. Final Victim by Ray Bradbury and Henry Hasse.Support the Show https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsVMerchandise https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fiSign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/share Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

She was the guardian of the worlds, but HER world was dead. The Gifts of Asti by Andre Norton, that's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.The first story we ever narrated by Andre Norton, All Cats Are Gray, was so popular that we decided to do another one of her stories as soon as possible.I had never heard of the publication Fantasy Book which, like many publications of the time, didn't last long. Fantasy Book published 8 issues from 1947 thru 1951 and disappeared for more than 30 years with an issue in 1985 and another in 1986.From Fantasy Book Volume 1 Number 3 in July, 1948 our story is found on page 8, The Gifts of Asti by Andre Norton…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, A touching tale of an Astronette–and why the gentle rain from Heaven has the quality of mercy. I Bring Fresh Flowers by Robert F. Young.Support the Show https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsVMerchandise New Designshttps://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/listing/get-psychedelic-alienhttps://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/listing/blue-alien-with-headphoneshttps://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/listing/earth-sagas-alien-earshttps://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/listing/in-a-world-full-of-humansFacebook https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fiSign up for our newsletterhttps://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/share Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What really happened to the traveling salesman and the farmer's daughter–and why? Here's the ultimate, horrifying answer… Jokester by Isaac Asimov, that's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Support the Show https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsVWe have a lot of new merchandise in our store, there are direct links to several new designs in the description.https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/listing/in-a-world-full-of-humanshttps://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/listing/probe-fashion-not-humanshttps://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/listing/warp-speed-2024https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/listing/dystopia-today-utopiahttps://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/listing/time-travel-9665From Infinity Science Fiction Magazine in December, 1956 let us go to page 39 and discover Jokester by Isaac Asimov…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, She was the guardian of the worlds, but HER world was dead. The Gifts of Asti by Andre Norton.Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fiSign up for our newsletter https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/share Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An odd story, made up of oddly assorted elements that include a man, a woman, a gray cat, a treasure—and an invisible being that had to be seen to be believed. All Cats Are Gray by Andre Norton, that's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.Thank you for making us one of the most popular science fiction podcasts in the world. According to Apple Podcasts we are #2 in Romania, and #3 in Portugal. More 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts, this from NJ Short Story Fan, “Excellent Podcast. Thank you for narrating “The First Man on the Moon” - it reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode “I Shot an Arrow into the Air.” However, I think you left out the end of Alfred Coppel's story. There is an epilogue that explains the presence of the figure as Sargon of the spacefaring Lemurians. Thank for bringing these wonderful stories from the Golden Age of Sci Fi to life. I don't mind the ads, please keep doing what you are doing.” Thanks for your review!Oops! Thank you for letting us know about our omission at the end of “The First Man on the Moon” NJ Short Story Fan, we also received an email from Matthew McWhorter informing us of our mistake. We will record the ending and add it to the podcast and let you know here when the correct version is available. For those of you who listen on YouTube we're not sure what we're going to do. If you have a suggestion please email us an scott@lostscifi.com, or comment on The First Man on the Moon.Andre Norton makes her debut on the podcast today. Born Alice Mary Norton in Cleveland Ohio in 1912. Most of her stories appear under the pen name Andre Norton, but she also used Andrew North and Allen Weston. To say she was a pioneer for women writing science fiction would be a huge understatement. She was the first woman to be Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, to be SFWA Grand Master, and to be inducted by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.She chose to write most often under Andre Norton because she thought there was prejudice against female writers and most people thought she was a man.She would write more than 30 novels and more than 50 short stories. What you are about to hear was the second short story that published more than 70 years ago. Taken at face value the author of today's story is Andrew North, but we know better. From the pages of Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, August–September 1953 let's turn to page 129, All Cats Are Gray by Andre Norton…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Caught in a storm he is thrown far from home and his very existence is in doubt. Castaway by Arthur C. Clarke.Support the Show https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsVMerchandise https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fiSign up for our newsletter https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/share Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A world had collapsed around this man—a world that would never shout his praises again. The burned-out cities were still and dead, the twisted bodies and twisted souls giving him their last salute in death. And now he was alone, alone surrounded by memories, alone and waiting… Happy Ending by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds, that's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, with at least one lost vintage sci-fi short story in every episode.It is good to be back after a trip to the beach here in Costa Rica where we met sci-fi fans everywhere, including two young women from Canada, Adele and Paige and Erik and Pia from Germany. Welcome to the ever growing list of listeners around the world to The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Thanks for making us one of the most listened to science fiction podcasts in the world, and thanks for making us #1 in Belgium and #2 in Hungary. We've featured stories by Fredric Brown and by Mack Reynolds before but they wrote this story together. From Fantastic Universe magazine in September 1957, our story can be found on page 105, Happy Ending by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, An odd story, made up of oddly assorted elements that include a man, a woman, a black cat, a treasure—and an invisible being that had to be seen to be believed. All Cats Are Gray by Andre Norton.Support the Show https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsVMerchandise https://lostscifi.creator-spring.com/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter https://twitter.com/lost_sci_fiSign up for our newsletter https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/266431/102592606683269000/share Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris Christman is a retired, life long adventurer. He has always been curious by nature, and lived his life as such. Born in Panama on a military base, and raised in New Jersey, his interests in different cultures, types of people and their lifestyles, he explored by engulfing himself in photography and travel. Reading anything he could get his hands on also played a big part in shaping his unique view of the world. He soon found out that science fiction would prove to be his favorite place to explore by reading the stories of Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Andre Norton, Roger Zelazny and others. More recently, urban fantasy taking more of his reading attention, Jim Butcher, Orlando Sanchez, Steve McHugh soon became favorites. They all influenced him to finally write his own stories down and as a result we have the Mixed Magic Saga. Using an unique twist of magic and science to entertain the reader. He lives in Missouri with his wife a social worker, a dog and four cats.

In this week's episode, I take a look at 10 different types of popular fantasy. A preview of the audiobook of DRAGONSKULL: TALONS OF THE SORCERER as narrated by Brad Wills is included at the end of the episode. It is once again time for Coupon of the Week! This week's coupon is for the audiobook of CLOAK OF DRAGONS, as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of CLOAK OF DRAGONS for 75% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code: OCTDRAGONS The coupon code is valid through November 3rd, 2023, so if you find yourself needing to listen to something as the days get shorter, we have an audiobook for you! TRANSCRIPT: 00:00:00 Introduction and Writing Updates Hello everyone. Welcome to Episode 171 of the Pulp Writer Show. My name is Jonathan Moeller. Today is October the 15th, 2023 and today we're going to discuss the different genres of fantasy. Before we do that, let's have Coupon of the Week. This week's Coupon of the Week is for the audiobook of Cloak of Dragons as excellently narrated by Hollis McCarthy. You can get the audiobook of Cloak of Dragons for 75% off at my Payhip store with this coupon code OCTDRAGONS and that is OCTDRAGONS. Again, that's OCTDRAGONS. You can get the coupon code and the links in the show notes. The coupon code is valid through November 3rd, 2023, so if you find yourself needing listen to an audio book as the days get shorter, we have an audio book for you. And before we get into our main topic, let's also talk about my current writing projects. I am pleased report that Ghost in the Serpent is finished and should be out at most of the ebook stores. You can get it right now at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Apple Books, Smashwords, and my Payhip store. And it should be out in Scribd in a few days, hopefully. It's selling briskly and very well. Thank you for that. I am excited to see that many people are excited to return to Caina's world. So that makes me look forward to writing the sequel, Ghost in the Veils, which I will probably write after I finish Cloak of Embers. Speaking of Cloak of Embers, that is my current writing project. As of this recording, I am on Chapter 2 of 22 which puts me at 14,000 words into the book and hopefully…hoping to have it out before American Thanksgiving if all goes well, though, it might slip to December depending on how much home maintenance and suchlike I need to do in October and November. In audiobook news, Ghost in the Serpent will be recorded as an audio book starting on November 7th, I believe. So, hopefully it should be out in December-ish in audiobook form. And Dragonskull: Talons of the Sorcerer is finished. It just has to get through quality control and proofing at ACX and Findaway, so it should not be too much longer to hear that and we will include a sample of that audiobook as excellently narrated by Brad Wills at the end of this episode. So that's where I'm at with my current writing projects. 00:02:13 Main Topic Introduction: Different Genres of Fantasy Now on to our main topic. I've written a couple of different kinds of fantasy, so today I thought I'd talk about the different kinds of fantasy and what differentiates them from each other. I should mention this isn't intended to be a comprehensive list nor a rigorously academic one. Genre is one of those topics that invariably seems out to bring out the “well, actually” commenters from the woodwork to argue over the finer points of what exactly constitutes hard science fiction or sword and sorcery. I don't think it is useful to consider genre as a strict taxonomy of stories like phylum and kingdoms and species for different types of animals. My view is that the writer needs to think first and foremost about what will make a good story. The overall kind of story you are writing is reflected by the genre and where there are certain underlying assumptions that the reader will expect for that genre. Genre is merely a useful shorthand of specifying what kind of story the reader expects to get when he or she picks up your book. Like if your cover and title make the reader assume that your book is contemporary romance, the reader will be very surprised and probably annoyed if the book turns out to be a grim detective story. With that in mind, let's take a look at some of the popular genres of fantasy that are predominant nowadays. 00:03:30 Type #1: Epic Fantasy Number one: epic fantasy. Everyone knows what this one is: it's the genre inspired by the Lord of the Rings: big sweeping story with multiple point of view characters and numerous different settings to visit. There will often be large battle scenes or sequences. Usually a lot of traveling is involved. There will often be a large overarching quest that is the main plot or conflict of the story. Almost invariably, the epic fantasy doesn't take place on Earth, but on a constructed world designed by the author. A map is often required. Epic Fantasy also tends to be really, really long, with both long individual books and long series overall. This has had kind of a deleterious effect on the genre in recent years, since sometimes authors run out of gas and can't finish the series, and sometimes publishers pull the plug because the sales just aren't high enough. Epic fantasy also tends, but not always, to have clearly delineated lines between good and evil. If there's a morally ambiguous antihero, he or she will tend to reform, die heroically, or become one of the bad guys. Epic fantasies that I've written include Frostborn, Sevenfold Sword, Dragontiarna, Dragonskull, and the Demonsouled series. 00:04:42 Type #2: High Fantasy Number two: high fantasy. This term tends to get used interchangeably with epic fantasy, but in the strictest sense, high fantasy is fantasy that takes place in a constructed world like Middle Earth or Narnia or the Forgotten Realms. The proper term for that is secondary world. I've done numerous secondary worlds, the setting of Frostborn, the setting of Demonsouled, the setting of the Ghosts are all secondary worlds. Even though Cloak Games/Cloak Mage has other worlds, it takes place primarily on Earth, so it doesn't quite count as a secondary world, which leads neatly to our next type of fantasy. 00:05:17 Type #3: Low Fantasy Number three: low fantasy. As with high fantasy, this is one of those terms that tends to have a mutating definition, like in the original sense low fantasy simply meant a fantasy that took place on our world rather than a constructed world. This obviously can cover a wide range of stories, from literary magical realism and a Gothic ghost story to urban fantasy like the Dresden Files. Low fantasy has also acquired a couple different definitions: fantasy story without an epic plotline or one with a morally ambiguous antihero as the lead. But in the original sense of the word, it was a fantasy story that took place in our world rather than a constructed world like Middle Earth or Westeros. Cloak Games and Cloak Mage would be the biggest low fantasy series I've written. Some of the short stories in my Otherworlds anthology would count as well. 00:06:04 Type #4: Sword and Sorcery Number four: sword and sorcery. Everyone knows what this one is: Conan the Barbarian. You have a protagonist or group of protagonists making your way through a fantasy world fighting evil sorcerers, sinister cultic priests, and tyrannical local nobles. Usually, the protagonists are looking out for themselves or hoping to get rich instead of undertaking a grand high fantasy quest. If the series goes on long enough with the same main character, then eventually the scope might expand in scale. Conan himself started out as wandering vagabond and ended up as King of Aquilonia and in the one and only full length novel that Robert E. Howard wrote, Conan has to reclaim his throne and keep the evil sorcerer Xaltotun from bringing back an ancient dark empire, which is quite a bit more epic in scale than many of the other Conan stories. Sword and sorcery typically has a darker edge to it than epic fantasy. The protagonist might be greedy thieves or raiders, though they will still have the core of honor to them. Of course, a lot of modern sword and sorcery tends to veer over into grimdark, which we will talk about shortly. In my books, sword and sorcery elements turn out frequently in all my epic fantasy novels: Frostborn,  Demonsouled, and the Ghosts. Ridmark and Mazael both spend time as wandering knights, having adventures and Caina in the Ghosts frequently breaks into the strongholds of corrupt lords and evil sorcerers to steal stuff from them. 00:07:17 Type #5: Urban Fantasy Number five: urban fantasy: fantasy set in the modern world of the 20th and 21st century, where you might have wizards and elves and vampires walking around next to modern lawyers, policemen, and politicians. Generally, urban fantasy tends to break down along two different lines. The first is the masquerade, a term popularized by the old Vampire The Masquerade role playing setting. The idea is that there's an expansive supernatural world, but for whatever reason is kept secret for most people who don't know about it. The reasons might be that the normal world might rise up in wrath and destroy the supernatural if its existence came out, or that the supernatural world preys on the normal one like vampires, and prefers to remain secret, or you have to be actually able to use magic to be able to perceive the supernatural world at all. I think the most famous current example of the masquerade world is actually Harry Potter. The Harry Potter books aren't technically urban fantasy, but the book's division of the world into the Muggles who can't use magic, and the Wizards who do is a good example of a masquerade. The other version is a world where magic exists, everyone is aware of it, and society has adapted to it. This can be played for laughs like you have an elf as head of the neighborhood HOA and a dwarven blacksmith who is running for Congress under the slogan of “hammering government back into shape like iron upon my ancestral forge.” Or it can be played dead serious with rival magical factions holding sway on various parts of Earth or the US government forcing all mages into a secret program and so forth. One variant that a commentator mentioned (commenter Grace) added when I talked about this on Facebook: “I'd alter how you break down urban fantasy slightly differently. Obviously there's the masquerade as you defined it but the other form I see most often is what I call magical apocalypse, best defined by Ilona and Gordon Andrews' Kate Daniels series. Basically that's (unintelligible word-9:09) genre is that magic came back to the world of the vengeance, changing everything suddenly and at least somewhat disastrously.” That is a good point from Grace, and I used some of that in my Cloak Mage/Cloak Games series where magic returned to Earth quite suddenly in the year 2013 when the elves invaded and conquered Earth. So as I said, Cloak Mage/Cloak Games series are my urban fantasy books.   00:09:29 Type #6: Lit RPG Number six: LitRPG. This is a new genre that has arisen in the last few years. Basically LitRPG are science fiction and fantasy stories told using the conventions of science fiction and fantasy role-playing games, especially MMORPG style games. If you're not familiar with that acronym, it's a massively multiplayer online role-playing game like World of Warcraft, Elder Scrolls Online, Star Wars the Old Republic, and similar games. Of course, characters entering a game world isn't exactly new. Jumanji was basically LitRPG with a board game, and in the new movies from the 2010s, the characters explicitly enter a video game world and have stats and special abilities. In the 1970s, Andre Norton wrote a novel called Quag Keep with some characters get pulled into the Dungeons and Dragons world via magical gaming figurines. I think it's on Kindle Unlimited now if you want to read it. Ender's Game is a science fiction version of the trope where Ender discovers that game he is playing has deadly consequences. I think there are generally two strains of LitRPG. In one, the protagonist is pulled entirely into the game world, leaving Earth behind and lives there completely. In the other, the protagonist is playing the game and trying to balance it with his or her real life, maybe financial pressures, maybe the game has a dark secret, something like that. Both versions lean heavily onto the tropes of MMORPG games. The protagonist selects a character class, levels up, faces bosses, might join a guild or start a stronghold, and so forth. LitRPG is mostly an indie author phenomenon; not many legacy publishers have published LitRPGs. An exception to that might be Ready Player One, but that was only a couple books and that's only really the really high profile example I can think of. Currently the only LitRPG I've written is Sevenfold Sword Online: Creation, but as of this writing I'm 19,000 words into the sequel, Sevenfold Sword Online: Leveling. 00:11:30 Type #7  Cultivation/xianxia Number seven: Cultivation, also known as xianxia Fantasy, which I'm that is as close to the actual pronunciation as I can come. The term is derived from the Chinese word xian, which means immortal being. Cultivation is a relatively new genre in the West but has come over from China thanks to the Internet. It's hugely popular in China but less so in the US, though it does have a devoted fanbase. The idea is that by essentially unlocking or cultivating one's energy, usually called qi, you can gain fantastic abilities of mind and body and become a xian. Some xian are become so powerful that they can conquer galaxies. Sometimes there are rival clans of xian engaged in conflict with each other or who follow different paths in school of training like martial arts schools in a samurai movie. If you've ever seen a wuxia film with supernatural martial arts heroes following secret training traditions, it's a lot like that, except with more abilities and a greater scope in the setting. American readers are sometimes surprised at how harsh Chinese written xianxia fantasy can be, but I suspect that's because Chinese culture in general is a lot less individualistic than American culture and is generally less forgiving of victimhood than American culture is, though of course, as with all cultural statements, that can be something of a generalization. I've never written any cultivation fantasy, though elements that do pretty frequently appear in LitRPG since the leveling up in a LitRPG is at least superficially similar to the paths of cultivation in xianxia fantasy. Nadia's journey through Cloak Games/the Cloak Mage is superficially similar to a cultivator's journey. But I don't think that's a valid comparison because I started writing Cloak Games in 2015 and I never even heard of xianxia fantasy until late 2021. And so therefore I don't think I can say that was an influence. 00:13:26 Type #8: Historical Fantasy Number eight: Historical fantasy: historical fiction with a fantastical twist, like Henry the Fifth was secretly allied with the king of the elves when he invaded France, or the Library of Congress is actually a secret magical society that has pulled the strings of American history from its founding. The degrees of fantasy and historical accuracy can vary wildly between authors in how much research they happen to do. This, of course, can easily blend in with urban fantasy. To return to our Library of Congress example from earlier, if the plot is set in the 1880s, it's historical fantasy. If it's set in the modern era, then it's urban fantasy, though the 1880s plot line can still obviously influence events. I've never written any strictly historical fantasy, though Frostborn assumes a somewhat magical past on Earth, and Cloak Games has the elves arrive and conquer Earth in 2013, which was 10 years ago now, so sheer longevity has given that series an element of historical fantasy. 00:14:20 Type #8: Grimdark Number nine: grimdark. This is less than a genre and more of a tone. Grimdark was largely inspired by George R.R .Martin's a Song of Ice and Fire, and to a lesser extent, Joe Abercrombie's books. Grimdark books are brutal, bloody, and violent, often explicitly so. Expect most of the characters to die in various horrible ways, often described in exacting detail. All the characters will be morally bankrupt, with those who are not becoming easy prey for those who are. In grimdark, the bad guys wins, but all the characters are the bad guy. I came to dislike grimdark quite a bit because in my opinion it embodies a sort of adolescent nihilism that some people never quite grow out of. This isn't to say that A Song of Ice and Fire didn't do it well, at least in the early books, but its many imitators did it less well. I consciously avoid writing grimdark because I don't like it. That said, it can be done well. The movie Sicario about the US intelligence apparatus playing an underhanded game against the drug cartels is a masterpiece of a film but very, very dark. 00:15:23 Type #10: Space Fantasy Number ten: science/space fantasy. This is a science fiction story with strong fantasy elements. Doctor Who and Star Wars both come to mind as immediate examples, since both have strong fantasy elements that they dress up in scientific sounding explanations. Doctor Who essentially is about a space wizard with a magic space box, who flies around having adventures, preferably in the company of one or more attractive female companions. The show traditionally seems to suffer when it strays from that formula. The proportion of science fiction and fantasy within Doctor Who varies depending upon the writer and the showrunner. Likewise, Star Wars is basically about magic space samurai who fight each other with laser swords and space magic. Another example might be Warhammer 40K, which does have space orcs and space elves fighting each other with space magic, though the bigger influences are probably grimdark science fiction and horror. All three franchises have been around long enough that they sort of created their own genre of space fantasy. Like LitRPG, it hasn't really hit the legacy publishing business, but you see lots of indie books that use science fiction and fantasy to the point where you have mages flying around on starships. I've never really written anything in space fantasy. Even the more supernatural elements of Silent Order like the Great Elder Ones and the Macrobes come from more horror than fantasy and the science fiction elements in Cloak Mage that have appeared in recent books are straight up science fiction that I've added to an urban fantasy setting, not science fantasy type stuff. Though interestingly, Brandon Sanderson's books sometimes come at science fantasy from the opposite end, where the book's magic system is so intricate and detailed that the setting can build a technological society off it. I think his very newest book, The Sunlit Man, is a very good example of that. 00:17:08: Concluding Thoughts Conclusion: so those are ten different types of fantasy that I think are popular nowadays. No doubt I missed some, and they're probably genres of fantasy popular right now that I haven't heard of yet, like I hadn't heard of xianxia fantasy until 2021. That said, for a writer, especially for an indie writer, the main value of genres is to add…is an aid to think about marketing, like my Cloak Games/Cloak Mage series, and mainly urban fantasy. But there's also elements of historical fantasy in it, and more and more science fiction elements, especially in the last few books but it's mainly urban fantasy, so I designed the covers to look like urban fantasy and I market it as an urban fantasy book. It's good to be conscious of what you are writing. Like Frostborn and the other Andomhaim books are primarily epic fantasy, so I try to stick to the accepted tropes, but I do let other stuff bleed in as I find it interesting, and I think it would enhance the story. And as always, thanks for reading my books, whatever genre they turned out to be. So that is it for this week. Thanks for listening to the Pulp Writer Show. I hope you find the show useful. 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Welcome to the first episode of LEVIATHAN PRESENTS! - A new segment where we highlight one audio fiction creator, have a conversation, and then play a full episode of their show right here in our feed. This episode's guest is Jonathan Pezza, the award winning creator of the Curious Matter Anthology. Jonathan is a veteran of TV and Film marketing, and is one of the best designers of soundscapes in audio fiction today. We discuss and listen to his latest installment, STAR HUNTER. 200 years in the future the task of scouting newly charted solar systems is left to the legendary members of the Outhunter's Guild. When his survey of the planet Jumala fails to find anything of value, Outhunter, Rass Hume, decides to host a safari for wealthy tourists that crave adventure. Based on the novel Star Hunter by Andre Norton. You can subscribe to Curious Matter Anthology at here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/curious-matter-anthology/id1483545385 For more information please visit www.curiousmatterpodcast.com To discover more podcasts set in the Leviathan universe go to www.leviathanaudioproductions.com, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 89Originally Aired Wednesday December 28,2022 Featuring Fantasy/Metaphysical Fiction Author CHRIS CHRISTMAN.ABOUT CHRIS: Chris Christman is a 65-year-old adventurer. He has always been curious by nature and lived his life as such. Being born in Panama on a military base, and raised in New Jersey, his interests in different cultures, types of people and their lifestyles, he explored by engulfing himself in photography and travel.Reading anything he could get his hands on also played a big part in shaping his unique view of the world. He soon found out that science fiction would prove to be his favorite place to explore by reading the stories of Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Andre Norton, Roger Zelazny and others.More recently, urban fantasy taking more of his reading attention, Jim Butcher, Orlando Sanchez, Steve McHugh soon became favorites. They all influenced him to finally write his own stories down and as a result we have the Mixed Magic Saga. Using an unique twist of magic and science to entertain the reader.He lives in Missouri with his wife who's a social worker, two dogs and four cats.

We learn: That apparently people who are into Anime LOVE legs I was upbeat about finishing the story, until I had to keep reading it I vow to never read a sci-fi book from the 60s ever again. Go on, read it for yourself: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=judgement+on+janus&i=stripbooks&crid=3UB8DIN91FSBQ&sprefix=judgement+on+janus%2Cstripbooks%2C91&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 Learn more about the show here: https://www.nuzzlehouse.com/leaves-of-glen/ Support Nuzzle House by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/nuzzle-house

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We learn: I Go off on a long rant about Twitter Desperate to finish this turd, I read 3 chapters Longest episode ever. Go on, read it for yourself: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=judgement+on+janus&i=stripbooks&crid=3UB8DIN91FSBQ&sprefix=judgement+on+janus%2Cstripbooks%2C91&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 Learn more about the show here: https://www.nuzzlehouse.com/leaves-of-glen/ Support Nuzzle House by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/nuzzle-house

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Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton audiobook. The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and forth across the base with methodical accuracy. And a single cowering witness, flattened on a ledge in the heights above, knew that when the last of those yellow-red bolts fell, nothing human would be left alive down there. And so Shann Lantee, most menial of the Terrans attached to the camp on the planet Warlock, was left alone and weaponless in the strange, hostile world, the human prey of the aliens from space and the aliens on the ground alike.

Voodoo Planet by Andre Norton audiobook. The sequel to Plague Ship, Voodoo Planet finds the Solar Queen banned from trade and starting her supposed quiet two-year stint as an interstellar mail carrier. But instead her crew accepts a visit to the safari planet of Khatka, where they find themselves caught in a battle between the forces of reason and the powers of Khatka's mind-controlling wizard. 

Episode Notes We learn: Thanks to the Canadian Spirit Podcast (@spirit_canadian on twitter) we learned what “Gentlehomo—” means "Gentle Homo sapiens" I have a cat that kills mice, but I won't touch him. He's gross This is the second book in my ‘career' that I've considered dropping before I finish it. Thank GOD FOR OCTOBER SCARY STORIES MONTH . Go on, read it for yourself: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=judgement+on+janus&i=stripbooks&crid=3UB8DIN91FSBQ&sprefix=judgement+on+janus%2Cstripbooks%2C91&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 . Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info. Support Nuzzle House by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/nuzzle-house

With co-host Perry still overseas, David discusses some recent awards and goes on to interview Rob Gerrand about writing and publishing in Australia, and then Murray MacLachlan about growing up in New Zealand and discovering science fiction and fantasy. Introduction (00:21) General News (03:31) 2022 Hugo Award Winners (01:05) David's Thoughts on the 2022 Hugos (00:44) 2022 Astounding Award (00:31) 2022 British Fantasy Awards (00:21) 2022 Davitt Awards (00:44) Interview with Rob Gerrand (30:02) The Millennium Job by Rob Gerrand (09:34) How to publish a novel (02:00) The Diplomat of Florence by Anthony Wildman (02:56) Charm, Strangeness, Mass and Spin by Stephen Dedman (05:18) The Future of Norstrilia Press (08:48) Publishing through Substack (00:39) Interview with Murray MacLachlan (43:28) Growing up in Dunedin, New Zealand (01:39) The ages of reading (01:46) Dangerous Visions and New Worlds by Andrew Nette et al. (01:28) The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne (01:39) Anderson's Bay (01:40) Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne (00:51) Tales from the Galaxies by Amabel Williams-Ellis (00:54) Children's library in Dunedin (01:19) Star Rangers by Andre Norton (00:12) Wumpworld by Bill Peet (00:50) Tintin by Hergé (00:06) Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (00:37) Non-fiction (00:30) Chariots of the Gods by Eric Von Daniken (01:05) Librarians (00:17) The Ruins of Earth by Thomas Disch (01:41) Bullying (01:57) Comet in Moominland by Tove Janssen (00:34) The library (00:41) Noumenon (fanzine) (00:25) Discovering fannish community in NZ (00:17) National Association of Science Fiction (00:51) Aotereapa (03:01) Phillip Mann (02:08) Early New Zealand SF writing (01:03) Leaving Dunedin (00:56) Space Time Bucaneers (fanzine) by Ian Gunn (00:29) Attending conventions (01:22) Coming to Australia (00:53) Nova Mob (03:57) Galaxy Books and Bernard Brosnan (01:15) The Square Root of Man by William Tenn (00:14) Nine Hundred Grandmothers by R. A. Lafferty (00:21) The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance (00:26) The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem (00:14) The Ballad of Beta Two and Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany (00:09) The Unlimited Dream Company by J. G. Ballard (00:32) Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (00:40) Tales of the Arabian Nights by Richard Francis Burton (00:26) Underground comics (00:57) Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (00:44) Conclusion (01:01) Link to unabridged version of this interview on SoundCloud Windup (00:20) Illustration generated by Wombo.art

With co-host Perry still overseas, David discusses some recent awards and goes on to interview Rob Gerrand about writing and publishing in Australia, and then Murray MacLachlan about growing up in New Zealand and discovering science fiction and fantasy. Introduction (00:21) General News (03:31) 2022 Hugo Award Winners (01:05) David's Thoughts on the 2022 Hugos (00:44) 2022 Astounding Award (00:31) 2022 British Fantasy Awards (00:21) 2022 Davitt Awards (00:44) Interview with Rob Gerrand (30:02) The Millennium Job by Rob Gerrand (09:34) How to publish a novel (02:00) The Diplomat of Florence by Anthony Wildman (02:56) Charm, Strangeness, Mass & Spin by Stephen Dedman (05:18) The Future of Norstrilia Press (08:48) Publishing through Substack (00:39) Interview with Murray MacLachlan (43:28) Growing up in Dunedin, New Zealand (01:39) The ages of reading (01:46) Dangerous Visions and New Worlds by Andrew Nette et al. (01:28) The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne (01:39) Anderson's Bay (01:40) Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne (00:51) Tales from the Galaxies by Amabel Williams-Ellis (00:54) Children's library in Dunedin (01:19) Star Rangers by Andre Norton (00:12) Wumpworld by Bill Peet (00:50) Tintin by Hergé (00:06) Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo (00:37) Non-fiction (00:30) Chariots of the Gods by Eric Von Daniken (01:05) Librarians (00:17) The Ruins of Earth by Thomas Disch (01:41) Bullying (01:57) Comet in Moominland by Tove Janssen (00:34) The library (00:41) Noumenon (fanzine) (00:25) Discovering fannish community in NZ (00:17) National Association of Science Fiction (00:51) Aotereapa (03:01) Phillip Mann (02:08) Early New Zealand SF writing (01:03) Leaving Dunedin (00:56) Space Time Bucaneers (fanzine) by Ian Gunn (00:29) Attending conventions (01:22) Coming to Australia (00:53) Nova Mob (03:57) Galaxy Books and Bernard Brosnan (01:15) The Square Root of Man by William Tenn (00:14) Nine Hundred Grandmothers by R. A. Lafferty (00:21) The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance (00:26) The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem (00:14) The Ballad of Beta Two & Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany (00:09) The Unlimited Dream Company by J. G. Ballard (00:32) Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges (00:40) Tales of the Arabian Nights by Richard Francis Burton (00:26) Underground comics (00:57) Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien (00:44) Conclusion (01:01) Link to unabridged version of this interview on SoundCloud Windup (00:20) Click here for more info and indexes Illustration generated by Wombo.art

Episode Notes We learn: Apparently “Gentlehomo—” is a term that was made up for this book I start playing old commercials from the ‘80s because I've run out of ideas Apparently “Gentlehomo—” wasn't supposed to be hilarious . Go on, read it for yourself: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=judgement+on+janus&i=stripbooks&crid=3UB8DIN91FSBQ&sprefix=judgement+on+janus%2Cstripbooks%2C91&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 . Visit https://nuzzlehouse.com for show info. Support Nuzzle House by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/nuzzle-house

The epic conclusion of Andre Norton's Star Hunter. Starring Colin Ferguson and Tiffany Smith. For more information, please visit www.curiousmatterpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Star Born by Andre Norton audiobook. Andre Norton's "Star Born" pictures a human colony in another galaxy, driven away from Earth generations ago by a repressive government. Considered outlaws, the colonists are in permanent hiding. They have developed friendship and cooperation with a local race of "mermen" who are equally at home on land or sea. But that race only took to the sea to escape a malevolent power that hunted them and killed them violently for sport - Those Others. With a global decline in the population and reach of Those Others, contacts are few and the humans have no direct knowledge of them. So it is a major surprise when Dalgard, a human scout on his coming-of-age expedition, along with his "knife-brother" Sssuri of the mermen, run into a party of Those Others who are bent on reclaiming hideous weaponries left behind in one of their abandoned cities... and find that they are being aided by new arrivals from Earth!

Mentioned in this episode:SBCC Human Resources - https://www.sbcc.edu/hr/History of “Human Resources” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resource_managementSBCC Equal Employment Opportunity Advisory Committee - https://www.sbcc.edu/hr/Equal_Employment_Opportunity_Advisory_Committee.phpShoreline Beach Cafe (NOT Beachside) - http://www.shorelinebeachcafe.com/menu/Management Culture and Surveillance - https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr/vol43/iss2/10/Medieval Roots of the Office - https://bene.com/en/office-magazine/inventing-office-table-book-and-scriptorium/SEIU 1000 - https://www.seiu1000.org/Lilly's Taqueria - https://lillystacos.com/Ojai Tortilla House - https://www.facebook.com/Ojaitortillahouse104/Osteria Monte Grappa - https://omgojai.com/Homemade Pasta - https://www.kaveyeats.com/learning-to-make-pasta-with-recipe-forOjai Rotie - https://www.ojairotie.com/Classic Tuna Noodle Casserole - https://www.skinnerpasta.com/en-us/recipes/25368/Texas-StyleTunaNoodleCasserolewithCrunchyCornChips.aspxBreakfast Cereal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_cerealThe Food That Built America - https://www.history.com/shows/the-food-that-built-americaThe Road to Wellville - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_WellvilleBusiness Wars - https://wondery.com/shows/business-wars/The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_JungleHawaii by James Michener - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_(novel)Cafe Stella - https://lecafestella.com/Stella Mare - https://www.stellamares.com/Mela Bistro - https://www.yelp.com/biz/mela-bistro-oaklandPetit Valentien (Ethiopian food on weekends) - https://www.petitvalentien.com/Little Ethiopia Los Angeles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ethiopia,_Los_AngelesDino's Chicken - https://www.dinosfamouschicken.com/Andre Norton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_NortonIsaac Asimov - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_AsimovRay Bradbury - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_BradburyRobert Heinlein - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._HeinleinMarvel Cinematic Universe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_UniverseStar Trek - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_TrekStar Wars - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_WarsUmbrella Academy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Umbrella_Academy_(TV_series)Transformers Film Series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_(film_series)Chef - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_(2014_film)Hacks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_(TV_series)Designing Women - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designing_WomenAlexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/292945/alexander-hamilton-by-ron-chernow/Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin - https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Team-of-Rivals/Doris-Kearns-Goodwin/9780743270755Hegel and the ‘End of History' - https://philosophynow.org/issues/129/Hegel_on_HistoryTechnological Singularity - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularityTim Berners-Lee Regrets - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regretsPhilip K. Dick - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._DickUrsula K Le Guin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_GuinCaves of Steel by Isaac Asimov - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5630/the-caves-of-steel-by-isaac-asimov/The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin - https://www.ursulakleguin.com/left-hand-darknessWasteland by Brent Faiyaz - https://www.brentfaiyaz.com/Love, Damini by Burna Boy - https://www.onaspaceship.com/LoveDaminiEmpath - https://www.empathempath.com/Bartees Strange - https://www.barteesstrange.com/Elvis Film - https://elvis.warnerbros.com/Baz Luhrmann - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baz_LuhrmannEscaping Poverty Requires Almost 20 Years With Nearly Nothing Going Wrong - https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economic-inequality/524610/The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and power in a Dual Economy by Peter Temin - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/vanishing-middle-classMarried at First Sight - https://www.mylifetime.com/shows/married-at-first-sight

Carol Gyzander was a prolific reader of classic science fiction and mysteries in her early days. To her, the letter “A” means Asimov, Andre Norton, and Agatha Christie! Now that her kids have flown the coop, leaving behind the writer's requisite cats, she's gone back to her early loves with short stories that veer into several genres (sci-fi, weird fiction, dark fantasy, and horror). Carol is the editor and writes for Writerpunk Press, which creates anthologies of 'punk genre stories based upon classics. Her contributions include cyberpunk Shakespeare, clockpunk Poe, and a cyberpunk tale inspired by Lovecraft's “The Colour Out of Space.” They have recently released their latest anthology, Taught by Time: Myth Goes Punk. You can find Carol and her books online at these sites. Website Twitter Instagram Goodreads Amazon #horror #criptid #novella

Plague Ship by Andre Norton audiobook. Lured by its exotic gems, the space trader Solar Queen lands on the little-known planet of Sargol, only to find the ruthless Inter-Solar Company there ahead of them. Adapting quickly to the culture of Sargol's feline inhabitants, the crew of the Queen beat out their rivals and successfully make a deal with the natives. But soon after takeoff, the Queen's crew is stricken with a plague, and they are now banned from landing on any inhabited planet. Will the Queen's crew save themselves, or be condemned to drift forever through space?

200 years in the future the task of scouting newly charted solar systems is left to the legendary members of the Outhunters Guild. When his survey of the planet Jumala fails to find anything of value, Outhuter, Rass Hume, decides to host a safari for wealthy tourists that crave adventure. Based on the novel Star Hunter by Andre Norton. For more information please visit www.curiousmatterpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're reposting two awesome interviews with authors who were just nominated for the Hugo Award. Our guest today was nominated 3 times for best short story, best novelette, and best novella. Today's guest is fantasy and science fiction author Catherynne Valente. Catherynne Valente is the writer of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (and the four books that followed it), Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series and so many books you've probably read or heard about. She's a New York Times bestselling author, winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, Hugo awards, and more. Usually, in Geekdom Empowers we follow the paths of the geeks around the world who are not highlighted. And yet, Cat's path is exactly the path we talk about. She talks about how, with the power of social media, before it was called social media, she got from knowing no one to what she is today. Social media helped her every stage of the way, including today where her Patreon gives her financial independence from the publishers. It is the story of a rise to success of an author who came from nothing, knowing no one. It is the story of an author who made her own niche, who kept her style and authenticity, and who has withstood, as we'll see, quite a bit of terrible pushback from science fiction and fantasy fans. I think you'll enjoy this interview. It's fascinating. You can find Catherynne Valente here: Website: catherynnemvalente.com/ Twitter: twitter.com/catvalente Instagram: www.instagram.com/catvalente Geekdom Empowers comes out Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can find us here: Website: www.geekdomeempowers.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/geekdomempowers/ Twitter: twitter.com/GeekdomEmpowers Facebook: www.facebook.com/geekdomempowers TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@geekdomempowers

Jeff & Kim review 1982's fantasy film "The Beastmaster." Bonus Review: Sheena from 1984 and the tv series "Ted Lasso." The Beastmaster is a 1982 sword and sorcery film directed by Don Coscarelli and starring Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, John Amos and Rip Torn. Loosely based on the 1959 novel The Beast Master by Andre Norton, the film is about a man who can communicate with animals, and who fights an evil wizard and his army. (Wikipedia) Instagram: @attackofthe20thcentury Facebook: @attackofthe20thcentury --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/attackofthe20thcentury/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/attackofthe20thcentury/support

Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction. She wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. The GSMC Audiobook Series presents some of the greatest classic novels, audiobooks, and theatrical presentations from a bygone era. Let Golden State Media Concepts take you on a ride through classic audiobooks read by some of the top audiobook performers of all time. This compiled collection of classic audiobooks contains a wide variety of classic Novels. ***PLEASE NOTE*** GSMC Podcast Network presents these shows and audiobooks as historical content and have brought them to you unedited. Remember that times have changed, and some Audiobooks might not reflect the standards of today's politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Golden State Media Concepts or the GSMC Podcast Network. Our goal is to entertain, educate and give you a glimpse into the past.

Andre Alice Norton (born Alice Mary Norton, February 17, 1912 – March 17, 2005) was an American writer of science fiction and fantasy, who also wrote works of historical fiction and contemporary fiction. She wrote primarily under the pen name Andre Norton, but also under Andrew North and Allen Weston. The GSMC Audiobook Series presents some of the greatest classic novels, audiobooks, and theatrical presentations from a bygone era. Let Golden State Media Concepts take you on a ride through classic audiobooks read by some of the top audiobook performers of all time. This compiled collection of classic audiobooks contains a wide variety of classic Novels. ***PLEASE NOTE*** GSMC Podcast Network presents these shows and audiobooks as historical content and have brought them to you unedited. Remember that times have changed, and some Audiobooks might not reflect the standards of today's politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Golden State Media Concepts or the GSMC Podcast Network. Our goal is to entertain, educate and give you a glimpse into the past.

Perry and David take the Hugo Time Machine back to the year 1968, when the shorter fiction was dominated by the Dangerous Visions anthology edited by Harlan Ellison and Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny won the Best Novel award. General News (10:07) Nebula Award Short List (03:14) Forthcoming Releases (02:29) Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter project (04:15) Hugo Time Machine 1968 (01:12:20) Best Short Story (12:30) The Dangerous Visions anthology (00:50) The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven (03:18) Aye And Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany (03:17) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (02:17) Other possible nominees (02:44) Best Novelette (14:26) Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K. Dick (03:46) Wizard's World by Andre Norton (02:45) Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes by Harlan Ellison (03:04) Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber (02:32) Other possible nominees (02:06) Best Novella (19:46) The Star-Pit by Samuel R. Delany (03:07) Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny (03:56) Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg (03:05) Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey (02:48) Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer (04:20) Other possible nominees (01:42) Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock (00:30) Best Novel (23:52) Thorns by Robert Silverberg (03:09) The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany (05:39) Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (09:34) Other possible nominees (04:36) Windup (01:25) Photo by Omar Houchaimi on Pexels

Perry and David take the Hugo Time Machine back to the year 1968, when the shorter fiction was dominated by the Dangerous Visions anthology edited by Harlan Ellison and Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny won the Best Novel award. General News (10:07) Nebula Award Short List (03:14) Forthcoming Releases (02:29) Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter project (04:15) Hugo Time Machine 1968 (01:12:20) Best Short Story (12:30) The Dangerous Visions anthology (00:50) The Jigsaw Man by Larry Niven (03:18) Aye And Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany (03:17) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (02:17) Other possible nominees (02:44) Best Novelette (14:26) Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K. Dick (03:46) Wizard's World by Andre Norton (02:45) Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes by Harlan Ellison (03:04) Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber (02:32) Other possible nominees (02:06) Best Novella (19:46) The Star-Pit by Samuel R. Delany (03:07) Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny (03:56) Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg (03:05) Weyr Search by Anne McCaffrey (02:48) Riders of the Purple Wage by Philip José Farmer (04:20) Other possible nominees (01:42) Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock (00:30) Best Novel (23:52) Thorns by Robert Silverberg (03:09) The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany (05:39) Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (09:34) Other possible nominees (04:36) Windup (01:25) Click here for more info and indexes Photo by Omar Houchaimi on Pexels

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The season five playoffs roll on with the San Dimas High division finals! Returning winners Aaron, R. Mike, and Dylan open the face off with their knowledge of title characters who start with B. But the stakes elevate when we identify remade properties on the big and small screens from the scantest details about them. And of course, the lightning round decides it all!Support Us On Patreon

The season five playoffs roll on with the San Dimas High division finals! Returning winners Aaron, R. Mike, and Dylan open the face off with their knowledge of title characters who start with B. But the stakes elevate when we identify remade properties on the big and small screens from the scantest details about them. And of course, the lightning round decides it all! NOTES ⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

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Maureen and Jane discuss their favorite writing technique -- the one tip that helped them evolve their writing in a new way. Also, they talk about early encounters with writers that made them want to become writers! Mercedes Lackey, Andre Norton, and Anne McCaffrey. Magical dragons! Telepathic horses!

Joining me for this episode's online chat is one of my favourite authors of weird and wonderful fiction, Catherynne M Valente. Catherynne is the New York Times bestselling author of forty works of speculative fiction and poetry, including Space Opera, The Refrigerator Monologues, Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series, Deathless, Radiance, and the crowdfunded phenomenon The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making (and the four books that followed it). She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Sturgeon, Prix Imaginales, Eugie Foster Memorial, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus, Romantic Times' Critics Choice and Hugo awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human. We talk about her many fabulous books, how she came to write and then crowdfund the first book in The Fairyland series which went on to win the Nebula Award, planting Easter eggs in Space Opera, writing complicated books, the weather and her latest short story which just so happens to be a Star Wars story The pairings: Little, Big by John Crowley The epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkwater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder. Catherynne chose a classic cocktail from 1688 - Milk Punch - to pair with this eerie and complex story. Possession by A.S. Byatt An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas. Man Booker Prize Winner (1990) Catherynne suggested a 1920s cocktail called The Last Word to pair perfectly with this passionate literary thriller! Smart Ovens For Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan A collection of offbeat, mind-bending short stories that are a joy to dip in and out of. A cat-shaped oven tells a depressed woman she doesn't have to be sorry anymore. A Yourtopia Bespoke Terraria employee becomes paranoid about the mounting coincidences in her life. Four girls gather to celebrate their underwear in ‘Happy Smiling Underwear Girls Party' and so many more. These are funny, sharp, witty and surreal stories that are somewhat disturbing at heart as they give us a glimpse of a potential future world and what might be… I was thinking that i'd love something fresh and sharp to drink whilst reading these stories and the wine that comes to mind is an Argentinian wine called Torrontes - it's nickname is The Liar as it smells sweet but is actually very dry and has an almost salty and lean taste and texture in your mouth. I think it would pair perfectly with this book of inventive and biting stories!

David and Perry discuss the centenary of the coining of the word ‘robot', the winner of the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and take the Hugo Time Machine whizzing back to the year 1964. R. U. R. by Karel Čapek (03:44) Arthur C. Clarke Award (03:09) The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (02:28) Hugo Time Machine~1964 (01:17:03) Glory Road by Robert Heinlein (02:59) Witch World by Andre Norton (06:35) Dune World by Frank Herbert (11:25) Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (08:09) Way Station by Clifford Simak (12:11) Voting results - Novels 1964 (02:06) Other possible novel nominees for 1964 (01:17) 1964 Short Fiction (00:24) Code Three by Rick Raphael (03:43) Savage Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs (04:40) A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny (07:49) No Truce With Kings by Poul Anderson (05:26) Voting results - Short Fiction 1964 (01:28) Other possible short fiction nominees 1964 (01:43) Internet Archive, SF Database, etc. (02:29) Other Hugo Awards in 1964 (02:23) Wind-up (01:08) Photo of toy robot by Suzy Hazelwood from Pexels