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Edward Willett is the award-winning author (under his own name and as E.C. Blake and Lee Arthur Chane) of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction for readers of all ages, including twelve novels for DAW Books, the most recent of which is The Tangled Stars, a humorous far-future space-opera heist adventure featuring an AI-uplifted talking cat who becomes a starship captain. Ed won Canada's top science fiction award, the Aurora Award, for his second novel for DAW, Marseguro, and has been shortlisted several times since, including for his most recent young adult science fiction novel, Star Song. Ed has also won an Aurora Award for his podcast, The Worldshapers. In 2018, Ed founded Shadowpaw Press, publisher of the Shapers of Worlds anthologies among many other books, not only science fiction and fantasy but also literary fiction, poetry, historical fiction, children's books, and nonfiction. In addition to writing, Ed is a professional actor and singer. He lives in Regina, Saskatchewan, with his wife. They have a grown daughter and a much younger black Siberian cat named, of course, Shadowpaw.Shadowpaw Press in Regina, Saskatchewan, is thrilled to announce the release on March 25 of Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the final installment in a powerhouse anthology series that has featured some of today's top writers of science fiction and fantasy, including major award-winners and international bestsellers, all of whom were guests on editor Edward Willett's Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers.http://shadowpawpress.com/https://edwardwillett.com/
Todd Lockwood is an artist known for his fantasy and science fiction illustration. he gained his largest following from for his work on the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, as well as novels from Tor Books, DAW Books, and on magazine covers, including Satellite Orbit magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, Realms of Fantasy, World of Warcraft, Dragon Magazine, and Dungeon Magazine. We talk about his career, stories, upbringing, and his new projects as well. https://www.toddlockwood.com/
In his new story collection Convergence Problems (DAW Books, 2024), Wole Talabi investigates the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves. In “An Arc of Electric Skin,” a roadside mechanic seeking justice volunteers to undergo a procedure that will increase the electrical conductivity of his skin by orders of magnitude. In “Blowout,” a woman races against time and a previously undocumented geological phenomenon to save her brother on the surface of Mars. In “Ganger,” a young woman trapped in a city run by machines must transfer her consciousness into an artificial body and find a way to give her life purpose. In “Debut,” Nairobi-based technical support engineer tries to understand what is happening when an AI art system begins malfunctioning in ways that could change the world. The sixteen stories of Convergence Problems, which include work published for the first time in this collection, rare stories, and recently acclaimed work, showcase Talabi at his creative best: playful and profound, exciting and experimental, always interesting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-fiction
From the Minotaur to xenomorphs to the undead, monsters and their ilk have long been a staple of the sci-fi and fantasy genres. But what exactly is it that makes a monster? Guest John Wiswell joins us to discuss how monsters in fiction often reflect not only our primal fears, but also the people that society seeks to Other. When monsters reflect what a real or fictitious society values and doesn't value, what sorts of things do writers need to consider when placing monsters in their world? In this episode, we explore how, while monsters can sometimes just be plot obstacles for Our Heroes to overcome, they can also be coded -- intentionally or as a matter of unconscious bias -- in the same ways that disability, poverty, non-heteronormative sexuality, and other marginalized populations get coded. We also pull apart the idea of recontextualizing monsters: As is often said of Frankenstein and his creation -- who's really the monster? Who's the true beast? [Transcript TK] Our Guest: John Wiswell is an American science fiction and fantasy author whose short fiction has won the Locus and Nebula Awards and been a finalist for the Hugo, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. His debut fantasy novel, Someone You Can Build a Nest In, will be released in spring 2024 by DAW Books. John's work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, LeVar Burton Reads, Nature Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Tales, the No Sleep podcast, Nightmare Magazine, Cast of Wonders, Podcastle, Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and other fine venues. His fiction has been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, Hebrew, and Romanian. He graduated Bennington College in 2005, and attended the Viable Paradise 17 workshop in 2013. He has multiple disabilities including a neuromuscular syndrome, and thinks healthy people's capacity to complain is very funny. He finds a lot of things very funny and would like to keep it that way. He is frequently available for interview and for talks at conferences. He has done panels at places such as Worldcon, the Nebula Awards, and the World Fantasy Convention. He posted fiction daily on this blog for six straight years, and has left every embarrassing and inspiring word of it up to read for free. If you'd like to see a writer develop style, it's all there. You can point and laugh. He probably can't hear you.
Mark interviews author, podcaster, and publisher Edward Willett about his writing, his podcast, Kickstarter campaigns, and some bold new ventures he is pursuing with his publishing company Shadow Paw Press. Prior to the interview, Mark reads comments from recent episodes, shares a personal update, and a word about this episode's sponsor. This episode is sponsored by ScribeCount (affiliate link). Spend less time logging in to multiple platforms and crunching numbers, and more time writing and marketing your books thanks to ScribeCount's handy all-in-one interface. In the interview, Mark and Edward talk about: The very first short story Edward wrote at the age of 11, "Caster Glaz, Hyper Ship Test Pilot" Working as a newspaper reporter for about eight years while he continued to write - Selling his first short story Making reference to Canadian historical figures like John Diefenbaker and The Arrogant Worms, which non-Canadians might not understand. (Thank goodness for Google) Publishing a science fiction short story "Strange Harvest" in an agricultural magazine based on his reporting of oddly shaped plants. And how that story was adapted into a nationally broadcast CBC Radio drama and might just beward's most popular short story Becoming a full-time freelance writer more than thirty years ago The twelve novels that Edward has released with Daw Books The radio broadcast work that he did for seventeen years as a freelancer Why Edward started the Worldshapers Podcast The anthologies Edward released that tie in with the novel as well as the Kickstarters Edward has run for them The evolution and growth of Edward's Shadow Paw Press How in 2024 Edward is taking on a huge number of new and innovative products, including books by notable Canadian authors like Dave Duncan and Robert J. Sawyer Working with an actual sales force and distribution network like LitDistCo The ins and outs of grant writing and investments involved in trying to get real distribution Helping other authors with their self-publishing needs Advice Edward has for authors thinking about being a publisher as well as for writers in general And more.... Mark then reflects on the value of a publisher with actual distribution and the difference between that and what any indie author can do in digital publishing. Links of Interest: Edward Willett (Website) Shadow Paw Press The Worldshapers Podcast Endless Sky Books Crowdfundr For Shadow Paw Press ScribeCount (Mark's Affiliate Link) EP 348 - Amanda Byrd on Direct Sales and AuthorsGoDirect Coast to Coast AM with George Noory (Mark featured guest on March 1, 2024/March 2, 2024) Mark's Past Appearances on Coast to Coast AM Mark's YouTube Channel Buy Mark a Coffee Patreon for Stark Reflections How to Access Patreon RSS Feeds An Author's Guide to Working With Bookstores and Libraries Smashwords Link (eBook 57% Off until end of Feb 2024) The Relaxed Author Buy eBook Direct Buy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for Authors An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores Wide for the Win Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story) A Canadian Werewolf in New York Stowe Away (Novella) Fear and Longing in Los Angeles Fright Nights, Big City Lover's Moon Hex and the City The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard Edward Willett is an award-winning author of more than sixty books science fiction, fantasy and non-fiction for both children and adults. He's also host of the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers: "Conversations with science fiction and fantasy authors about the creative process." (http://www.theworldshapers.com). He successfully Kickstarted and edited a new anthology, Shapers of Worlds, featuring authors who were guests during the first year of the podcast. Among his novels are twelve published by DAW Books, one of the premier publishers of science fiction and fantasy publishers: Lost in Translation, Marseguro (which won the 2009 Aurora Award for best English-language science fiction or fantasy book by a Canadian author), and its sequel Terra Insegura (a finalist for the 2010 Aurora Award); Magebane (written as Lee Arthur Chane); the Masks of Aygrima fantasy trilogy for DAW Books, written as E.C. Blake; the stand-alone science fiction novel The Cityborn. His Worldshapers series began with Worldshaper ("a rollicking contemporary fantasy," Publishers' Weekly said in a starred review), and continued with Master of the World and The Moonlit World. His latest is The Tangled Stars, a humorous far-future space-opera adventure. Willett is also the author of The Shards of Excalibur modern-day YA fantasy series for Coteau Books, I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust, a collection of science fiction and fantasy poetry published by Your Nickel's Worth Publishing, and Paths to the Stars, a collection of his short fiction; Blue Fire a YA fantasy written as E.C. Blake, and Star Song, a YA science fiction novel that was a finalist for the Aurora Award for Best Canadian YA Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel, all published by Shadowpaw Press The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
The Dragons of Deepwood Fen (Daw Books, 2023) is an immersive fantasy which takes you deep into a world of duality. There are two suns, one light and one dark; and two types of dragons, one yielding a substance called umbra and one a substance called aura. There are two peoples, one subjugated by the other. The people of the woods, mostly the dark-skinned Kin, have been conquered by the people of the mountains, who are organized into an empire with five capitals and five rulers, as well as an Imperator who is elected to rule over the Holt, the subjugated wooded territory that still retains some rights. But the Empire is not as united as it seems. A secret faction of the church, called the Chosen, hopes to free the dark Lord Faedryn from his imprisonment by the Goddess Alra and depose the ruling families. To that end, they enter into alliance with the Red Knives, a group of rebels who hide out in the Holt. Three young people try to navigate this complex world—Lorelie, an investigator for the Empire; Rylan, the illegitimate son of the Imperator; and Rhiannon, a young orphan with magical powers, who lives in an abbey in the Holt. With the complexity and political intrigue worthy of The Game of Thrones, but thankfully none of the sadism or sexual violence, Bradley Beaulieu has crafted a gripping and quick moving tale with likeable protagonists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
The Dragons of Deepwood Fen (Daw Books, 2023) is an immersive fantasy which takes you deep into a world of duality. There are two suns, one light and one dark; and two types of dragons, one yielding a substance called umbra and one a substance called aura. There are two peoples, one subjugated by the other. The people of the woods, mostly the dark-skinned Kin, have been conquered by the people of the mountains, who are organized into an empire with five capitals and five rulers, as well as an Imperator who is elected to rule over the Holt, the subjugated wooded territory that still retains some rights. But the Empire is not as united as it seems. A secret faction of the church, called the Chosen, hopes to free the dark Lord Faedryn from his imprisonment by the Goddess Alra and depose the ruling families. To that end, they enter into alliance with the Red Knives, a group of rebels who hide out in the Holt. Three young people try to navigate this complex world—Lorelie, an investigator for the Empire; Rylan, the illegitimate son of the Imperator; and Rhiannon, a young orphan with magical powers, who lives in an abbey in the Holt. With the complexity and political intrigue worthy of The Game of Thrones, but thankfully none of the sadism or sexual violence, Bradley Beaulieu has crafted a gripping and quick moving tale with likeable protagonists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature
The Dragons of Deepwood Fen (Daw Books, 2023) is an immersive fantasy which takes you deep into a world of duality. There are two suns, one light and one dark; and two types of dragons, one yielding a substance called umbra and one a substance called aura. There are two peoples, one subjugated by the other. The people of the woods, mostly the dark-skinned Kin, have been conquered by the people of the mountains, who are organized into an empire with five capitals and five rulers, as well as an Imperator who is elected to rule over the Holt, the subjugated wooded territory that still retains some rights. But the Empire is not as united as it seems. A secret faction of the church, called the Chosen, hopes to free the dark Lord Faedryn from his imprisonment by the Goddess Alra and depose the ruling families. To that end, they enter into alliance with the Red Knives, a group of rebels who hide out in the Holt. Three young people try to navigate this complex world—Lorelie, an investigator for the Empire; Rylan, the illegitimate son of the Imperator; and Rhiannon, a young orphan with magical powers, who lives in an abbey in the Holt. With the complexity and political intrigue worthy of The Game of Thrones, but thankfully none of the sadism or sexual violence, Bradley Beaulieu has crafted a gripping and quick moving tale with likeable protagonists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/fantasy
Wole Talabi's debut novel Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (Daw Books, 2023) follows Shigidi–a former nightmare god–and his partner, the succubus Nneoma as they attempt to carve a life independent from the control of Spirit Corporations. The story spans continents and decades but centers on a heist to steal an artifact back from the British Museum. In this interview, Talabi describes using the Yoruba pantheon of gods while also drawing on other global mythologies. We discuss the process of writing a novel with a fragmented timeline with scenes spanning millennia and the power of speculative fiction to tackle complex issues in a thoughtful and engaging way. We talk heist stories, subverting misogynistic succubus tropes, and cinematic action in novels. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon is an energetic, fast paced read with great depth and it was so much fun discussing it with the author. A. E. Lanier is a short fiction writer and educator living in Central Texas. More about her work can be found at aelanier.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
Wole Talabi's debut novel Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (Daw Books, 2023) follows Shigidi–a former nightmare god–and his partner, the succubus Nneoma as they attempt to carve a life independent from the control of Spirit Corporations. The story spans continents and decades but centers on a heist to steal an artifact back from the British Museum. In this interview, Talabi describes using the Yoruba pantheon of gods while also drawing on other global mythologies. We discuss the process of writing a novel with a fragmented timeline with scenes spanning millennia and the power of speculative fiction to tackle complex issues in a thoughtful and engaging way. We talk heist stories, subverting misogynistic succubus tropes, and cinematic action in novels. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon is an energetic, fast paced read with great depth and it was so much fun discussing it with the author. A. E. Lanier is a short fiction writer and educator living in Central Texas. More about her work can be found at aelanier.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature
Wole Talabi's debut novel Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon (Daw Books, 2023) follows Shigidi–a former nightmare god–and his partner, the succubus Nneoma as they attempt to carve a life independent from the control of Spirit Corporations. The story spans continents and decades but centers on a heist to steal an artifact back from the British Museum. In this interview, Talabi describes using the Yoruba pantheon of gods while also drawing on other global mythologies. We discuss the process of writing a novel with a fragmented timeline with scenes spanning millennia and the power of speculative fiction to tackle complex issues in a thoughtful and engaging way. We talk heist stories, subverting misogynistic succubus tropes, and cinematic action in novels. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon is an energetic, fast paced read with great depth and it was so much fun discussing it with the author. A. E. Lanier is a short fiction writer and educator living in Central Texas. More about her work can be found at aelanier.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/fantasy
Overview Soulworm, the debut novel of Edward Willett, now the award-winning author of more than twenty novels and twice that many nonfiction books, has just been made available once more in a new edition from Shadowpaw Press Reprise.A young adult fantasy novel, Soulworm was originally published by Royal Fireworks Press in 1997, and was shortlisted for the Best First Book award at that year's Saskatchewan Book Awards. It was written in the 1980s while Willett was news editor of the Weyburn Review newspaper, and is set in Weyburn in 1984—which nowadays gives it a Stranger Things vibe, although at the time it was a present-day tale. Edward Willett is the award-winning author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages, including the Worldshapers series and the Masks of Agyrima trilogy (as E.C. Blake) for DAW Books and the YA fantasy series The Shards of Excalibur, originally published by Coteau Books. His most recent novel is the humorous space opera The Tangled Stars (DAW Books).Willett won Canada's top science fiction/fantasy award, the Aurora Award, for Best Long-Form Work in English in 2009 for Marseguro (DAW) and for Best Fan Related Work in 2019 for The Worldshapers podcast, and a Saskatchewan Book Award for Spirit Singer in 2002. He has been short-listed for Aurora and Saskatchewan Book Awards multiple times (most recently for his YA science fiction novel Star Song), and long-listed multiple times for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. Website edwardwillett.com Book YouTube https://youtu.be/soin5a_PcvE Transcript Stephen: Today I want to welcome Edward back to the podcast. How are you doing, Edward? Edward: It's good to see you again. Stephen: Now that we're in winter, last time I talked to you, it was like negative 20 or something, and you were talking about walking around outside in the snow. Do you have a nice weather now? Edward: Is it actually over the weekend? It was more like 30, 31 Celsius. Put up around 90 Fahrenheit. So we've had some really helpful. Unfortunately, our air conditioning is broken. And so getting back fixed, but today it's quite cool. It's 18, I think for a high today. So Stephen: yeah. It's been awful humid here. We've had rain off and on for a couple of days, so it gets really humid and that's worse. I'd Edward: rather have heat. I went to university in Arkansas, so I know heat and humidity. And I was in marching band. Stephen: Oh, nice wool uniforms and stuff. Black ones at that. Oh, man, we had dark maroon and gold. You put that on and I played drums when you carry that big heavy equipment. Edward: Our drummers were lucky. They got to wear a kind of a peasant shirt with an open collar and something lighter. But all the rest of us were stuck in these winter weight woolen uniforms. Stephen: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. All right. It's good to have you back again. We've talked with you before about some of the books you've had, the anthologies, short stories, some of your other books. So today we're going to talk about a new book for you Edward: called soul. Yes. Although it's not really a new book. It's a, it's an old book and a new edition. It's my debut novel now out in a new edition. Stephen: Oh, that's awesome. In that, and that's probably why you suggested we talk a little bit later for the author stuff about revisiting and revising. Perfect. All right. So give us a little bit of the background history here of Soul Worm, how it fits into your overall list of books Edward: And when I came out of university, I had decided in high school that I wanted to be a writer, but I also knew you couldn't make a living as one. So I was actually working as a newspaper. I went into journalism. I was working as a newspaper reporter and then editor of my hometown newspaper. I was editor at the age of 24 of my newspaper back at Weyburn,
It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! The dang Writer's Strike is really putting a damper on the entertainment news... BUT that just means YOU good nerds get all the stuff! Foo Fighters, Tom Waits, Metal Gear, Dark X-Men, Black Mirror and SO MUCH MORE!Tune in Wednesdays for the regular show and Saturdays for the re-post of the Friday night LIVE SHOW. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content. MusicNew Music/VideoFoo Fighters - The Teacher https://youtu.be/6MF6trC529M I kinda miss the funny Foo days.But I still want to be Dave Grohl when I grow up. TEN minutes?? Quite a journey.Signs of the Swarm - Tower of Torsos https://youtu.be/7d4P51ye_0I pretty solid deathcore. New album out July 28th, available for pre-sale https://signsoftheswarm.lnk.to/AmongstTheLowAndEmpty Johnny Booth - Full Tilt https://youtu.be/soLD8obmHjA REALLY cool intro! I LOVE when Metalcore (or any genre) can go for more than 4 minutes and have it make sense.Jasta - Assimilate Agenda https://youtu.be/3DgpCXtxVdA featuring Steve Souza “Zetro” from Exodus. Jasta is at his finest in front of Hatebreed… this feels awkward and forced. Not terrible though.Code Orange - Grooming My Replacement https://youtu.be/nAi4P0Ntt5g The GameNew Code Orange is GREAT!!!Deftones - Bloody Cape https://youtu.be/0mnXzCCpctU Remastered video from the self-titled album. For the 20th anniversary. I miss HEAVY Deftones!Fever333 - $wing https://youtu.be/y-Pu_GzFu0s cool video concept. Hunt the Dinosaur - Tinfoul Hat https://youtu.be/hD02oetYx8E Tours/FestivalsChevelle/Three Days Grace - Support from Loathe. Live Nation tour. Sept 8th in Bethlehem PA through Oct 14 in Boston MA.Tickets will be available starting with Citi presale beginning Tuesday, May 30. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, June 2 at 10 a.m. local time at LiveNation.comDANZIG - Support from BEHEMOTH, TWIN TEMPLE & MIDNIGHT. Aug 25 in Las Vegas through Sept 17th in Chicago, IL. Tickets on sale May 1st. https://stubhub.prf.hn/click/camref:1100liXbx/pubref:danzig*anniverary-tour-05252023/ar:metalinjection/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fdanzig-tickets%2Fperformer%2F28188%2F Reg ‘ol NewsAll That Remains - The Fall of Ideals, their 2006 album, has now been certified GOLD.https://blabbermouth.net/news/all-that-remains-the-fall-of-ideals-certified-gold-in-u-s Pantera - Cowboys From Hell, 1990, certified DOUBLE PLATINUM.https://blabbermouth.net/news/panteras-cowboys-from-hell-certified-double-platinum-in-u-s Tom Waits - said to be writing a new record… according to his agent… in IRELAND.https://consequence.net/2023/05/tom-waits-writing-songs-again/ Shadows Fall - Reunion shows have Brian Fair teasing the possibility of new music from the band. https://blabbermouth.net/news/shadows-fall-performs-at-milwaukee-metal-fest-video Cradle of Filth - Writer's strike be damned, the black metallers have begun to create a new album. https://blabbermouth.net/news/cradle-of-filth-begins-recording-new-album Architects - the band has announced that Josh Middleton (guitar since 2016) is no longer a part of the band. The split seems amicable, and they have even hinted at new Sylosis music later this year. https://metalinjection.net/news/breakups/architects-splits-with-guitarist-josh-middleton SuggestsTom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner Nighthawks at the Diner is the third studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 21, 1975 on Asylum Records. It was recorded over four sessions in July in the Los Angeles Record Plant studio in front of a small invited audience set up to recreate the atmosphere of a jazz clubGaming/TechFollow-ups/CorrectionsMortal Kombat 1 - Stress Test announced, ahead of the August Beta test. https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/mortal-kombat-1-mk1-playtest-signups/ Diablo 4 - the first 1000 players that reach Hardcore level 100 will have their names emblazoned on a statue of the game's main antagonist, Lilith. Reportedly must be done before Sept 1. Set for a June 6th release. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/diablo-4-players-who-pull-off-a-hardcore-challenge-will-have-their-names-added-to-a-statue/ Microsoft - In an unsurprising move, the tech giant has officially filed their appeal against the UK block of their Activision acquisition. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-files-appeal-against-uk-decision-to-block-its-activision-blizzard-deal/ Last of Us - New multiplayer game noticeably absent from the Playstation Showcase. Naughty Dog claims the game needs a little more cook time. The “Factions” mode is not up to snuff. https://kotaku.com/last-of-us-multiplayer-game-playstation-showcase-ps5-1850480567 TrailersSony State of Play - ONLY ONE EXCLUSIVE!! Spider-Man 2 https://youtu.be/XrPZSq5YXqc Metal Gear 3 Remake https://youtu.be/iNX8QCeymFM Marathon - extraction shooter/reboot of their pre-Halo series https://youtu.be/S8MdC6tuUuc Alan Wake 2 - Oct 17 https://youtu.be/q0vNoRhuV_I Reg ‘ol NewsProject Q - Playstation Handheld… but only by remote play through wifi.Nintendo V Steam - Nintendo has issued a cease and desist to Steam over Dolphin. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-explains-its-decision-to-block-dolphins-steam-release-saying-it-stifles-innovation/ Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection - Announced the same day as Delta, but there's a twist; it will contain not JUST the first Metal Gear Solid games, but ALSO the first 2 metal gear games. To be released this Fall. https://kotaku.com/metal-gear-master-collection-snake-eater-hd-collection-1850481173 Nvidia - Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine. New AI development that the company is licensing out for game development as a means to create dynamic NPCs.https://kotaku.com/nvidia-ace-ai-rtx-4060-ti-gpu-graphics-gaming-jobs-1850484480 Fallout: New Vegas - now free on the Epic Games Store.SuggestsLegend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - STILL playing through this bad boy!!Comic Books/BooksFollow-ups/CorrectionsPatrick Rothfuss - New KINGKILLER BOOK!! But not Doors of Stone. This is a novella titled The Narrow Road Between Desires. A book about Bast, in the same vein of A Slow Regard of Silent Things being about Auri. https://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2023/05/new-novella-an-announcement-in-three-parts/ Reg ‘ol NewsDark X-Men - fDark X-Men #1 will be written by Steve Foxe (X-MEN ANNUAL) and drawn by Jonas Scharf (AVENGERS OF THE WASTELANDS), and they put together quite the team. The Dark X-Men will not lack for power, but they are easily one of the more unpredictable X-teams in recent years. The Dark X-Men squad will include Madelyne Pryor, Havok, Archangel, Gambit, Azazel, Zero, Albert, and Emplate.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-announces-new-dark-x-men-team/ Wild Cards - Wild Cards: Now & Then, Gorge R.R. Martin's Wild Cards: Now & Then goes on sale July 25th. author Carrie Vaughn, and featuring art by Eisner-nominated Renae De Liz.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/george-r-r-martin-wild-cards-now-then-first-look-exclusive/#1 Nick Fury - Marvel is officially retiring Nick Fury?? Well Nick Fury SR. anyway. Nick Fury JR will now be THE Nick Fury in the books. Fury number 1 creative team of Al Ewing, Scot Eaton, Cam Smith, Tom Reilly, Adam Kubert, Ramon Rosanas, Jordie Bellaire, and VC's Joe Caramagna.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-retires-original-nick-fury-sr/ SuggestsThe Slow Regard of Silent Things is a fantasy novella and one of the companion tales in The Kingkiller Chronicle series written by American author Patrick Rothfuss. It includes illustrations by Nate Taylor and was first published by DAW Books in the United States on October 28, 2014.TV ShowsFollow-ups/CorrectionsMillarverse - The Chosen One is the next series from Mark Millar. Based on the American Jesus comic book. Due out August 16 on Netflix. https://cosmicbook.news/mark-millars-the-chosen-one-netflix-series-gets-premiere-date-poster The Witcher - Season 5 announced…The Walking Dead: Rick and Michonne - wrapped on principal photography.Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Entire first season for free on YouTube! https://www.engadget.com/you-can-watch-the-entire-first-season-of-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-for-free-on-youtube-183553558.html TrailersStar Trek: Strange New Worlds - https://youtu.be/69mzZqcM0qw Season 2 June 15 on Paramount+. This looks HUGE.Black Mirror - https://youtu.be/5jY1ecibLYo finally, something of a hint at story…Righteous Gemstones - https://youtu.be/quK5D0s6Rh4 season 3 June 18. Is John Goodman dying?Reg ‘ol NewsMandalorian - Producers and Showrunners are submitting Ahmed Best for an Emmy. https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/the-mandalorian-submitting-ahmed-best-for-emmy-consideration-brings-his-star-wars-journey-full-circle/ SuggestsBlack MirrorBritish anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker. Individual episodes explore a diversity of genres, but most are set in near-future dystopias with sci-fi technology—a type of speculative fiction. The series is based on The Twilight Zone and uses technology to comment on contemporary social issues. Most episodes are written by Brooker with heavy involvement by the executive producer Annabel Jones.MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsDeadpool 3 - Currently filming https://twitter.com/DeadpoolUpdate/status/1661402680726519811 MK 2 - Adeline Rudolph cast as Kitana. Adeline Rudolph is known for Netflix's Resident Evil and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina where she joins her Sabrina co-star Tati Gabrielle who was recently announced as Jade https://cosmicbook.news/mortal-kombat-2-casts-adeline-rudolph-as-kitana Good Burger 2 - begins principal photography. https://twitter.com/mymixtapez/status/1661062742453764096 TMNT - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scored the movie… worth it just for that. https://metalinjection.net/at-the-movies/trent-reznor-atticus-ross-scored-the-new-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-movie TrailersTMNT: Mutant Mayhem - https://youtu.be/IHvzw4Ibuho Better look at Superfly and his band of mutants. Also, was that Baxter Stockman in the background?Reg ‘ol NewsJohn Wick 5 - Seriously???https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/our-prayers-have-been-answered-as-john-wick-5-is-confirmed-to-be-in-early-development/ Half Baked 2 - Happening and titled “TotallyHigh”. Returning will be Harland Williams as Kenny and Rachel True as Mary Jane. Breuer and Chappelle will not likely even have cameos. https://comicbook.com/movies/news/half-baked-2-gets-new-title/ SuggestsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles1990 American superhero film directed by Steve Barron and written by Todd W. Langen and Bobby Herbeck, from a story by Herbeck. It is the first film adaptation of the comic book characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It stars Judith Hoag and Elias Koteas with the voices of Brian Tochi, Robbie Rist, Corey Feldman, and Josh Pais. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles follows the Turtles on a quest to save their master, Splinter, with their new allies, April O'Neil and Casey Jones, from the Shredder and his Foot Clan.Rumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsMetal Gear RemakeCD Projekt Red - Not for sale according to the company's CEO. Not going to sell to Sony.New SourcesDeadpool 3 - New source says that not only is Deadpool going through the Fox Marvel universe, but SPECIFICALLY we will be seeing Halle Berry's Storm. Superman: Legacy - Brainiac confirmed by 2 new sources to “really” be in the movie. ~ALSO~ Andy Muschietti directing.Clayface - Mike Flanagan now being attached to the rumored movie.Fantastic 4 - Adam Driver's Reed Richards, Margot Robbie's Sue Storm, Paul Mescal's Johnny Storm, and Daveed Diggs' Ben Grimm final cast?New RumorsStar Wars - The Rey movie is now said to feature both Mark Hamill and Hayden Christensen. When asked recently in an Esquire interview Hamill danced around the question.~ALSO~Temura Morrison rumored to be cast for Ahsoka as Captain RexWitcher - Dolph Lungren is rumored to be starring in a spin-off series. Based on the Rats from the Time of Contempt book, which season 3 of the Netflix show will be largely based on reportedly.Resident Evil - New movie called Umbrella Chronicles.My Hero Acedamia - Netflix live-action series?Rebel Moon - Zach Snyder's Star Wars will spawn a universe unto it's self.You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.
It's time for the Comic Talk Headlines with Generally Nerdy! The dang Writer's Strike is really putting a damper on the entertainment news... BUT that just means YOU good nerds get all the stuff! Foo Fighters, Tom Waits, Metal Gear, Dark X-Men, Black Mirror and SO MUCH MORE!Tune in Wednesdays for the regular show and Saturdays for the re-post of the Friday night LIVE SHOW. Plus, don't forget to subscribe for more fresh content. MusicNew Music/VideoFoo Fighters - The Teacher https://youtu.be/6MF6trC529M I kinda miss the funny Foo days.But I still want to be Dave Grohl when I grow up. TEN minutes?? Quite a journey.Signs of the Swarm - Tower of Torsos https://youtu.be/7d4P51ye_0I pretty solid deathcore. New album out July 28th, available for pre-sale https://signsoftheswarm.lnk.to/AmongstTheLowAndEmpty Johnny Booth - Full Tilt https://youtu.be/soLD8obmHjA REALLY cool intro! I LOVE when Metalcore (or any genre) can go for more than 4 minutes and have it make sense.Jasta - Assimilate Agenda https://youtu.be/3DgpCXtxVdA featuring Steve Souza “Zetro” from Exodus. Jasta is at his finest in front of Hatebreed… this feels awkward and forced. Not terrible though.Code Orange - Grooming My Replacement https://youtu.be/nAi4P0Ntt5g The GameNew Code Orange is GREAT!!!Deftones - Bloody Cape https://youtu.be/0mnXzCCpctU Remastered video from the self-titled album. For the 20th anniversary. I miss HEAVY Deftones!Fever333 - $wing https://youtu.be/y-Pu_GzFu0s cool video concept. Hunt the Dinosaur - Tinfoul Hat https://youtu.be/hD02oetYx8E Tours/FestivalsChevelle/Three Days Grace - Support from Loathe. Live Nation tour. Sept 8th in Bethlehem PA through Oct 14 in Boston MA.Tickets will be available starting with Citi presale beginning Tuesday, May 30. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, June 2 at 10 a.m. local time at LiveNation.comDANZIG - Support from BEHEMOTH, TWIN TEMPLE & MIDNIGHT. Aug 25 in Las Vegas through Sept 17th in Chicago, IL. Tickets on sale May 1st. https://stubhub.prf.hn/click/camref:1100liXbx/pubref:danzig*anniverary-tour-05252023/ar:metalinjection/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stubhub.com%2Fdanzig-tickets%2Fperformer%2F28188%2F Reg ‘ol NewsAll That Remains - The Fall of Ideals, their 2006 album, has now been certified GOLD.https://blabbermouth.net/news/all-that-remains-the-fall-of-ideals-certified-gold-in-u-s Pantera - Cowboys From Hell, 1990, certified DOUBLE PLATINUM.https://blabbermouth.net/news/panteras-cowboys-from-hell-certified-double-platinum-in-u-s Tom Waits - said to be writing a new record… according to his agent… in IRELAND.https://consequence.net/2023/05/tom-waits-writing-songs-again/ Shadows Fall - Reunion shows have Brian Fair teasing the possibility of new music from the band. https://blabbermouth.net/news/shadows-fall-performs-at-milwaukee-metal-fest-video Cradle of Filth - Writer's strike be damned, the black metallers have begun to create a new album. https://blabbermouth.net/news/cradle-of-filth-begins-recording-new-album Architects - the band has announced that Josh Middleton (guitar since 2016) is no longer a part of the band. The split seems amicable, and they have even hinted at new Sylosis music later this year. https://metalinjection.net/news/breakups/architects-splits-with-guitarist-josh-middleton SuggestsTom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner Nighthawks at the Diner is the third studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 21, 1975 on Asylum Records. It was recorded over four sessions in July in the Los Angeles Record Plant studio in front of a small invited audience set up to recreate the atmosphere of a jazz clubGaming/TechFollow-ups/CorrectionsMortal Kombat 1 - Stress Test announced, ahead of the August Beta test. https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/mortal-kombat-1-mk1-playtest-signups/ Diablo 4 - the first 1000 players that reach Hardcore level 100 will have their names emblazoned on a statue of the game's main antagonist, Lilith. Reportedly must be done before Sept 1. Set for a June 6th release. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/diablo-4-players-who-pull-off-a-hardcore-challenge-will-have-their-names-added-to-a-statue/ Microsoft - In an unsurprising move, the tech giant has officially filed their appeal against the UK block of their Activision acquisition. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-files-appeal-against-uk-decision-to-block-its-activision-blizzard-deal/ Last of Us - New multiplayer game noticeably absent from the Playstation Showcase. Naughty Dog claims the game needs a little more cook time. The “Factions” mode is not up to snuff. https://kotaku.com/last-of-us-multiplayer-game-playstation-showcase-ps5-1850480567 TrailersSony State of Play - ONLY ONE EXCLUSIVE!! Spider-Man 2 https://youtu.be/XrPZSq5YXqc Metal Gear 3 Remake https://youtu.be/iNX8QCeymFM Marathon - extraction shooter/reboot of their pre-Halo series https://youtu.be/S8MdC6tuUuc Alan Wake 2 - Oct 17 https://youtu.be/q0vNoRhuV_I Reg ‘ol NewsProject Q - Playstation Handheld… but only by remote play through wifi.Nintendo V Steam - Nintendo has issued a cease and desist to Steam over Dolphin. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintendo-explains-its-decision-to-block-dolphins-steam-release-saying-it-stifles-innovation/ Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection - Announced the same day as Delta, but there's a twist; it will contain not JUST the first Metal Gear Solid games, but ALSO the first 2 metal gear games. To be released this Fall. https://kotaku.com/metal-gear-master-collection-snake-eater-hd-collection-1850481173 Nvidia - Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine. New AI development that the company is licensing out for game development as a means to create dynamic NPCs.https://kotaku.com/nvidia-ace-ai-rtx-4060-ti-gpu-graphics-gaming-jobs-1850484480 Fallout: New Vegas - now free on the Epic Games Store.SuggestsLegend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - STILL playing through this bad boy!!Comic Books/BooksFollow-ups/CorrectionsPatrick Rothfuss - New KINGKILLER BOOK!! But not Doors of Stone. This is a novella titled The Narrow Road Between Desires. A book about Bast, in the same vein of A Slow Regard of Silent Things being about Auri. https://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2023/05/new-novella-an-announcement-in-three-parts/ Reg ‘ol NewsDark X-Men - fDark X-Men #1 will be written by Steve Foxe (X-MEN ANNUAL) and drawn by Jonas Scharf (AVENGERS OF THE WASTELANDS), and they put together quite the team. The Dark X-Men will not lack for power, but they are easily one of the more unpredictable X-teams in recent years. The Dark X-Men squad will include Madelyne Pryor, Havok, Archangel, Gambit, Azazel, Zero, Albert, and Emplate.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-announces-new-dark-x-men-team/ Wild Cards - Wild Cards: Now & Then, Gorge R.R. Martin's Wild Cards: Now & Then goes on sale July 25th. author Carrie Vaughn, and featuring art by Eisner-nominated Renae De Liz.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/george-r-r-martin-wild-cards-now-then-first-look-exclusive/#1 Nick Fury - Marvel is officially retiring Nick Fury?? Well Nick Fury SR. anyway. Nick Fury JR will now be THE Nick Fury in the books. Fury number 1 creative team of Al Ewing, Scot Eaton, Cam Smith, Tom Reilly, Adam Kubert, Ramon Rosanas, Jordie Bellaire, and VC's Joe Caramagna.https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-retires-original-nick-fury-sr/ SuggestsThe Slow Regard of Silent Things is a fantasy novella and one of the companion tales in The Kingkiller Chronicle series written by American author Patrick Rothfuss. It includes illustrations by Nate Taylor and was first published by DAW Books in the United States on October 28, 2014.TV ShowsFollow-ups/CorrectionsMillarverse - The Chosen One is the next series from Mark Millar. Based on the American Jesus comic book. Due out August 16 on Netflix. https://cosmicbook.news/mark-millars-the-chosen-one-netflix-series-gets-premiere-date-poster The Witcher - Season 5 announced…The Walking Dead: Rick and Michonne - wrapped on principal photography.Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Entire first season for free on YouTube! https://www.engadget.com/you-can-watch-the-entire-first-season-of-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-for-free-on-youtube-183553558.html TrailersStar Trek: Strange New Worlds - https://youtu.be/69mzZqcM0qw Season 2 June 15 on Paramount+. This looks HUGE.Black Mirror - https://youtu.be/5jY1ecibLYo finally, something of a hint at story…Righteous Gemstones - https://youtu.be/quK5D0s6Rh4 season 3 June 18. Is John Goodman dying?Reg ‘ol NewsMandalorian - Producers and Showrunners are submitting Ahmed Best for an Emmy. https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/the-mandalorian-submitting-ahmed-best-for-emmy-consideration-brings-his-star-wars-journey-full-circle/ SuggestsBlack MirrorBritish anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker. Individual episodes explore a diversity of genres, but most are set in near-future dystopias with sci-fi technology—a type of speculative fiction. The series is based on The Twilight Zone and uses technology to comment on contemporary social issues. Most episodes are written by Brooker with heavy involvement by the executive producer Annabel Jones.MoviesFollow-ups/CorrectionsDeadpool 3 - Currently filming https://twitter.com/DeadpoolUpdate/status/1661402680726519811 MK 2 - Adeline Rudolph cast as Kitana. Adeline Rudolph is known for Netflix's Resident Evil and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina where she joins her Sabrina co-star Tati Gabrielle who was recently announced as Jade https://cosmicbook.news/mortal-kombat-2-casts-adeline-rudolph-as-kitana Good Burger 2 - begins principal photography. https://twitter.com/mymixtapez/status/1661062742453764096 TMNT - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scored the movie… worth it just for that. https://metalinjection.net/at-the-movies/trent-reznor-atticus-ross-scored-the-new-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-movie TrailersTMNT: Mutant Mayhem - https://youtu.be/IHvzw4Ibuho Better look at Superfly and his band of mutants. Also, was that Baxter Stockman in the background?Reg ‘ol NewsJohn Wick 5 - Seriously???https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/our-prayers-have-been-answered-as-john-wick-5-is-confirmed-to-be-in-early-development/ Half Baked 2 - Happening and titled “TotallyHigh”. Returning will be Harland Williams as Kenny and Rachel True as Mary Jane. Breuer and Chappelle will not likely even have cameos. https://comicbook.com/movies/news/half-baked-2-gets-new-title/ SuggestsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles1990 American superhero film directed by Steve Barron and written by Todd W. Langen and Bobby Herbeck, from a story by Herbeck. It is the first film adaptation of the comic book characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It stars Judith Hoag and Elias Koteas with the voices of Brian Tochi, Robbie Rist, Corey Feldman, and Josh Pais. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles follows the Turtles on a quest to save their master, Splinter, with their new allies, April O'Neil and Casey Jones, from the Shredder and his Foot Clan.Rumor MillConfirmations/RefutationsMetal Gear RemakeCD Projekt Red - Not for sale according to the company's CEO. Not going to sell to Sony.New SourcesDeadpool 3 - New source says that not only is Deadpool going through the Fox Marvel universe, but SPECIFICALLY we will be seeing Halle Berry's Storm. Superman: Legacy - Brainiac confirmed by 2 new sources to “really” be in the movie. ~ALSO~ Andy Muschietti directing.Clayface - Mike Flanagan now being attached to the rumored movie.Fantastic 4 - Adam Driver's Reed Richards, Margot Robbie's Sue Storm, Paul Mescal's Johnny Storm, and Daveed Diggs' Ben Grimm final cast?New RumorsStar Wars - The Rey movie is now said to feature both Mark Hamill and Hayden Christensen. When asked recently in an Esquire interview Hamill danced around the question.~ALSO~Temura Morrison rumored to be cast for Ahsoka as Captain RexWitcher - Dolph Lungren is rumored to be starring in a spin-off series. Based on the Rats from the Time of Contempt book, which season 3 of the Netflix show will be largely based on reportedly.Resident Evil - New movie called Umbrella Chronicles.My Hero Acedamia - Netflix live-action series?Rebel Moon - Zach Snyder's Star Wars will spawn a universe unto it's self.You can support this show by visiting our merch store, or by leaving us an Apple Podcasts review.
When it comes to worldbuilding, what's the difference between going deep and going wide? Kritika H. Rao joins us to discuss finding the balance between the things that are tentpoles of your world and things that can be window dressing. How do you choose what to focus on? How many worldbuilding innovations might be too many innovations? In this episode, we discuss different processes of worldbuilding and how an author's choices might cause revelations or problems down the line. Transcript for Episode 77 (Our scribes are amazing! Would you like to join the scribal team? Email us at worldbuildcast@gmail.com) Our Guest: Kritika H. Rao is a science-fiction and fantasy writer, who has lived in India, Australia, Canada and The Sultanate of Oman. Kritika's stories are influenced by her lived experiences, and often explore themes of consciousness, self vs. the world, and identity. The Surviving Sky, a Hindu philosophy-inspired epic science-fantasy, is her debut novel and will be out in Fall 2022 by DAW Books and Titan Books UK. When she is not writing, she is probably making lists. She drops in and out of social media; you might catch her on Twitter or Instagram @KritikaHRao. Visit her online at www.kritikahrao.com.
Hello, Dickheads. Shut-in as we are against the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we were still able to get together on Google Hangouts and have a great conversation with the President, co-Publisher, and co-Editor-in-Chief of science fiction and fantasy publisher DAW Books, Betsy Wollheim. She shares some of her vast knowledge with us built out of a lifetime in the publishing industry after being taught the ropes by her famous (and sometimes infamous) father, Donald Allen Wollheim. Enjoy. Our Patreon ►► www.patreon.com/LanghorneJTweed Find Betsy Wollheim: DAW Books ►► https://www.penguin.com/publishers/daw/ Find David Agranoff: Amazon ►► https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1580511880&sr=1-2 Find Anthony Trevino: Amazon ►► https://www.amazon.com/Anthony-Trevino/e/B0175C5E6A?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_4&qid=1580511976&sr=1-4 Music on this episode is from - Valis: An Opera by Tod Machover Check it out here: http://www.amazon.com/Valis-ANNE-BOGDEN…EMA/dp/B000003GI2 FIND US: Twitter ►► https://twitter.com/Dickheadspod Facebook ►► https://www.facebook.com/Dickheadspodcast/ Soundcloud ►► https://soundcloud.com/dickheadspodcast Instagram ►► https://www.instagram.com/dickheadspodcast/ YouTube ►► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Gjzj26NsRyUlAAoWtLiCg --- 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/pkdheadsbonus/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pkdheadsbonus/support
Dr. Joshua Palmatier has tasty brains, and we pick them both on his writing while earning a PhD and on his successful press, and what it has taught him. You should listen and learn too about ZombiesEatBrains! … Continue...Episode 124 – Zombies Need Brains
Gender is a construct -- so how is it built in your fantasy world? There's hardly a better place to interrogate our assumptions about societies, from ideas about marriage and family to established power structures to fashion and fripperies. E. J. Beaton joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about how we can examine, investigate, challenge, and reimagine gender and gender relations in our worldbuilding. Our Guest: E. J. Beaton is the author of the fantasy novel The Councillor, to be published by DAW Books on March 2, 2021. She has previously published a poetry collection, Unbroken Circle (Melbourne Poets Union), and has been shortlisted for the ACU Prize for Poetry and the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize. She studied literature and writing at university, and her PhD thesis included analysis of Machiavellian politics in Shakespearean drama and fantasy literature. She lives in Melbourne, Australia. Transcript for Episode 51, with thanks to our scribes! If you would like to join the scribe team, send us a line at worldbuildcast (at) gmail.com and we'll get you set up! Volunteering for the team comes with perks like early access to episodes and fancy Discord swag.
Travis interviews author E. J. Beaton about her debut fantasy novel, The Councillor. This Machiavellian fantasy from DAW Books follows a scholar's quest to choose the next ruler of her nation amidst lies, conspiracy, and assassination. E. J. and Travis discuss building character through fight scenes, the difficulty in removing the patriarchal elements of society, and that amazing yet underrepresented fantasy creature: the chimera. Interested in sponsoring a podcast episode or purchasing an ad? Find out more here. About E. J. Beaton: E. J. Beaton is the author of the fantasy novel The Councillor. She has previously published a poetry collection, Unbroken Circle (Melbourne Poets Union), and has been shortlisted for the ACU Prize for Poetry and the Ada Cambridge Poetry Prize. She studied literature and writing at university, and her PhD thesis included analysis of Machiavellian politics in Shakespearean drama and fantasy literature. She lives in Melbourne, Australia. Find E. J. Beaton on Twitter as @ej_beaton or at her website, ejbeaton.com. Find Us Online: Blog Discord Twitter Instagram Support Us: Become a Patron Buy Us a Coffee Music: Intro: "The Legend of Iya" courtesy of https://philter.no Outro: "A Quest Unfolds" courtesy of https://philter.no This episode of The Fantasy Inn podcast was recorded in the unceded territory of the S'atsoyaha (Yuchi) and ᏣᎳᎫᏪᏘᏱ Tsalaguwetiyi (Eastern Cherokee Band) peoples. The blog post accompanying this episode can be found at https://thefantasyinn.com, along with fantasy book reviews, author interviews, and more fantasy content.
Juliette’s second book, Transgressions of Power (sequel to Mazes of Power), is coming out in February! Get your tiara and boa together and think about what you’re going to wear to her book release party! Juliette talks about dialect work, plotting, and how world building and pre-construction helps her write faster. … Continue...Episode 85 – Juliette Wade Returns!
What do Patrick Rothfuss, Tad Williams, Mercedes Lackey, C.J. Cherryh, and Nnedi Okorafor all have in common? Besides being A-List fantasy wordcrafters, all were published by DAW Books. Tonight we meet the woman behind one of science fiction and fantasy's most beloved publishing houses, DAW Books' President, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief, Betsy Wollheim. Betsy's here to pull back the curtain on what goes into the traditional publishing process, give you tips on how to get published, and discuss where she thinks the publishing world is headed. So get your questions ready and join us LIVE. We'll snag as many questions as we can from the chat. Cheers!
Gather 'round as David chats with author Gerald Brandt about life, writing, and his upcoming series, Quantum Empirica, beginning with Threader Origins which hits on 1/12/21 from DAW Books. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aoaptb/support
Welcome to bonus episode 25 of - The Stephen King Podcast - Constant and New Listeners! In this episode, Edward Willett is the guest. Ed is a writer and podcaster. He is the award-winning author of more than sixty books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages. The Moonlit World is his eleventh novel for New York's DAW Books, one of the world's major publishers of science fiction and fantasy. He won Canada's Aurora Award for Best Long-Form Work in English in 2009 for Marseguro (DAW Books), and a Saskatchewan Book Award in 2002 for his young-adult fantasy Spirit Singer, recently re-released by Shadowpaw Press, and has been shortlisted for both awards multiple times. Upcoming works include a young-adult science fiction novel, Star Song, for Shadowpaw Press, and The Tangled Stars, a new space-opera adventure for DAW Books. Willett also hosts The Worldshapers podcast, which won the 2019 Aurora Award for Best Fan Related Work, featuring conversations with science fiction and fantasy authors about their creative process; Shapers of Worlds, a Kickstarted anthology featuring some of the bestselling, award-winning authors who were guests on that podcast during the first year, comes out from Shadowpaw Press in e-book format on September 22 and in print on November 14. Check out Ed's website for further details on him and links to his works - Edward Willett In this podcast: 1) Intro 2) Interview 3) Outro --------------------------------------------------------------- Intro Music - Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult Outro Music - Stand by Me by Ben E. King ------------------------------------------------------------------- iTunes - The Stephen King Podcast. ------------------------------------------------------------------- RSS Feed - RSS. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Direct Download Link - The Stephen King Podcast - Bonus Episode 25 (Click to play, right click and Chose 'Save Link As' to save the file) ------------------------------------------------------------------- You can find the podcast on the Internet at the following locations: ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Support The Show - Thank You!
Sometimes, there's a book that catches your attention because it takes a popular trope (reincarnation) and builds a story around that feels like a fresh approach especially when it's main characters are under 21. Cries from the Lost Island certain fit the bill. I had the opportunity to sit down and ask Kathleen O'Neal Gear some questions about her latest stand alone novel (and solo project) Cries from the Lost Island. Bio: Kathleen O'Neal Gear is an archaeologist and historian. She lives in and raises bison (yes, you read that correctly) in the Owl Creek Mountains in northern Wyoming. She began writing full-time in 1986 and has been prolific (non-fiction and fiction) pretty much ever since. She's authored 10 novels under her name and 37 international bestsellers with her husband W. Michael Gear. What started out as a pretty straightforward curiosity about what made her want to write about Cleopatra turned into an interesting discussion about her inspiration, process, and random facts I discovered while prepping for the interview. Like what you hear? Subscribe so you don't miss an episode! Follow Ro on Twitter: @BookBlerd @TheMTRNetwork
This week on Arm Cast: Dead Sexy Podcast, host Armand Rosamilia chats with Edward Willett He's the award-winning author of more than 60 books of science fiction, fantasy, and non-fiction for readers of all ages. His current series for DAW Books is Worldshaper; Book 2, Master of the World, is out now, and Book 3, The Moonlit World, comes out this fall. Ed has won two Aurora Awards (Canada’s top science fiction awards), one for his novel Marseguro (DAW), and one for his poodcast, The Worldshapers, where he interviews other science fiction and fantasy authors about the creative process. He also has a small publishing company called Shadowpaw Press. In addition to being an author, he’s a professional actor and singer.
Sheila Gilbert, publisher of DAW Books, joins the podcast. We have a short but wonderful chat at CanCon about how she got in the business, some awesome stories about people she interacted with in the business, the Canadian Connection at DAW and much more. Books: https://www.mirrorworldpublishing.com/ Merchandise: https://jpantalleresco.redbubble.com
K. Eason is the author of HOW RORY THORNE DESTROYED THE MULTIVERSE — out now from DAW Books. This charming and subversive fantasy-meets-space opera tale follows a young princess who is uprooted from her planet, and her throne, sent off-world to be a pawn for intergalactic politics. But Rory Thorne is no run-of-the-mill fantasy princess, and is definitely no pawn. Rory must use all of her wits, gifts, and determination to turn a manipulative Regent’s plot against him, rescue a mislaid prince she is supposed to be betrothed to, and perhaps avoid plunging the entire star system into chaos and conflict.
Chatting With Sherri welcomes illustrator and author Todd Lockwood! Todd Lockwood is an illustrator and author, whose work has appeared on NY Times best-selling novels, magazines, video games, collectible card games, and fantasy role-playing games. It has been honored with multiple appearances in Spectrum and the Communication Arts Illustration Annual, and with numerous industry awards. Always known for the narrative power of his paintings, Todd's debut novel, "The Summer Dragon" was released by DAW Books to rave reviews, named by B&N and Amazon both on their shortlist of "Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels of the Year."
Dan Stout lives in Columbus, Ohio, where he writes about fever dreams and half-glimpsed shapes in the shadows. His prize-winning fiction draws on his travels throughout Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Rim, as well as an employment history spanning everything from subpoena server to assistant well driller. Dan's stories have appeared in publications such as The Saturday Evening Post, Nature, and Mad Scientist Journal. His debut novel Titanshade is the first volume in The Carter Archives from DAW Books. You can follow him on Facebook or your social media site of choice. You can find him at Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Goodreads. You can also reach him by email at Contact@DanStout.com It's a proven fact that getting mail from readers makes him chortle with delight and refer to himself in third person.
Dan Stout is author of the debut novel Titanshade. It's a hard-boiled cop drama set in a 1970’s-esque fantasy world, where the titular corruption-infected city is kept warm by the heat of a tortured infernal god, some of the detectives have face mandibles, and the best squad cars come with 8-track players. Titanshade is available now from DAW Books.
The Two Gay Geeks are joined by the always effervescent Gini Koch, author of the Katherine "Kitty" Katt Alien Series from DAW Books, as we talk about all things that Gini is up to and has coming in the very near future! As always we have our birthdays as well as our Feedback, and in our second segment we have a chat with another author, Carrie Merrill, whose new book in the "Angel Blade" Series, Harbingers, has just been released. In our third segment we highlight our recent articles posted to the website in the past week. As always we welcome your feedback. Please let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us. Our YouTube channel is Two Gay Geeks (audio only): Show Notes / Links: TG Geeks Signs Deal with Krypton Radio Series Ending Thoughts for Sense8 A Review of Ocean’s 8 Dr. Zombie – Monster Family Physician #1 TG Geeks Webcast Episode 174 Review: The Incredibles 2 It’s All About Jack-Jack! Eli Lieb Releases a Pride 2018 video for The Trevor Project The Night Beat is a Monstrously Fun Tale of Law Enforcement! The Thin Man Series | Old Classics? Newly Reviewed Review Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom It’s All About Blue. Three Episode Thoughts: Ascension News Sushi: Morsels of News from Japan and Beyond #16 Social Saturday | Louisiana Bistreaux Thank You to our Web Hosting Partner Featured Podcast Promo of the Week Krypton Radio If you have a podcast or know of a podcast we should be aware of, please use the contact form below and send us the information and we will take a look. The Trevor Project Please consider supporting the Trevor Project Phoenix Fan Fusion Info Phoenix Fan Fusion will be held Memorial Day Weekend 2019 at the Phoenix Convention Center. More info to come once they roll out the new website. Arizona Opera Arizona Opera has wrapped up the Spring Season. However, the Fall Season begins in October and looks absolutely fabulous. Tickets are available at azopera.org Thank You The Arkle Times Post Dispatch News - The Human Arkle on Twitter @arkle Please have a look at Arkle’s other venture: Incorrect Voyager Quotes Doctor Who Fancast Guide - Dr Who: Talking Who on Twitter @TalkingWho Byronik's Semidurnal Aggregator - Michael C. Burgess on Twitter @Byronik Thank you to The Lookie Show for their continued support on Twitter. @LookieShow Check them out on Youtube as well here We want to give a special shout out to the Facebook Group “The Gay Geek” for graciously allowing us to post our episodes to their page. Look for them at www.facebook.com/groups/thegaygeek. And a special Thank You to Jeramiah Reeves, the moderator, for being such a great guy. Are you a writer?The Two Gay Geeks have recently been deemed “worthy” by one of the PR houses to attend film press screenings, but we can’t view every film that gets released. So, if you fancy yourself as a movie reviewer, and wish to write a review of a new film, get in touch with us using the contact us page and use the subject line of "Movie Review Options." We can then contact you and work out the details. Thank you. Support Independent CreatorsAs you may know by now, we have become huge supporters of Independent Creators, not just film, but any kind of creative outlet that is of an independent nature. We know we are always pushing something, but this is what we have become passionate about. We just ask you to take a look at those independent creators that we talk about and others you may discover on your own and give a helping hand. It doesn’t always have to be much, usually as little as five dollars helps in the scheme of things. Please consider supporting Independent Creators. Social Media We can now be found on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Google +,
The Two Gay Geeks have a great chat, as always, with our good friend and recurring guest, Gini Koch, author of the Katherine "Kitty" Katt - Alien Series from DAW Books. We have our birthdays as well as some Feedback. In our second segment we talk about an item that is rearing its ugly head, so strap in folks. This is a rant segment. As always we welcome your feedback. Please let us know what you think. Good or bad, we want to know. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us. Our YouTube channel is Two Gay Geeks (audio only): Show Notes / Links: Here is the link to order your copy https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0756412838/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=tggeekscom-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0756412838&linkId=90877979e3a37a9030a930c0ccad5385 Items discussed on the show TG Geeks Episode 154 Brian "Arkle" Webber's reply The Greatest Showman | Review Angry DC Fans plan to Sabotage Black Panther's Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes Thank You to our New Web Hosting Partner Featured Podcast Promo of the Week Technorama Podcast If you have a podcast or know of a podcast we should be aware of, please use the contact form below and send us the information and we will take a look. Phoenix Comic Fest Info Phoenix Comic Fest (yes, that is the new name) is May 24 - 27th, 2018 at the Phoenix Convention Center. Check out the guest lineup, tickets, and hotels at www.phoenixcomicon.com . Phoenix Film festival Phoenix Film Festival April 5 - 15, 2018 at Harkins Scottsdale 101. Over 250 films and 25,000 attendees over 11 days. We are sponsors this year. Arizona Opera Arizona Opera Presents The Barber of Seville - Gioacchino Rossini's comic masterpiece - Tucson - March 03 - 04, 2018 and Phoenix March 09 - 11, 2018. Tickets still available at azopera.org Thank You The Arkle Times Post Dispatch News - The Human Arkle on Twitter @arkle Please have a look at Arkle’s other venture: Incorrect Voyager Quotes Doctor Who Fancast Guide - Dr Who: Talking Who on Twitter @TalkingWho Thank you to The Lookie Show for their continued support on Twitter. @LookieShow Check them out on Youtube as well here We want to give a special shout out to the Facebook Group “The Gay Geek” for graciously allowing us to post our episodes to their page. Look for them at www.facebook.com/groups/thegaygeek. And a special Thank You to Jeramiah Reeves, the moderator, for being such a great guy. Are you a writer?The Two Gay Geeks have recently been deemed “worthy” by the PR houses to attend film press screenings, but we can’t view every film that gets released. So, if you fancy yourself as a movie reviewer, and wish to write a review of a new film, get in touch with us using the contact us page and use the subject line of "Movie Review Options." We can then contact you and work out the details. Thank you. Support Independent CreatorsAs you may know by now, we have become huge supporters of Independent Creators, not just film, but any kind of creative outlet that is of an independent nature. We know we are always pushing something, but this is what we have become passionate about. We just ask you to take a look at those independent creators that we talk about and others you may discover on your own and give a helping hand. It doesn’t always have to be much, usually as little as five dollars helps in the scheme of things. Please consider supporting Independent Creators. Social MediaWe can now be found on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Google +, see the links on the right sidebar. You are Important To UsWe welcome your suggestions. Let us know what you like or don’t like or if you have an opinion or comment on an article or the show. You may email us below, comment on Facebook, or call our listener line at 469.TG Geeks (469.844.3357).
Michael Moorcock’s first five Elric of Melniboné stories appeared in the British magazine Science Fantasy in 1962 and were collected in hardcover the next year as The Stealer of Souls, followed by a U.S. paperback edition from Lancer Books in 1967. Savage and sardonic, the Elric stories must have seemed like a fantasy off-shoot of Great Britain’s “Angry Young Man” movement of that era. At first glance, Elric of Melniboné appears to be the very antithesis of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Cimmerian: a physically weak sorcerer, addicted to drugs, symbiotically linked to the malignant black sword Stormbringer, and the rightful emperor of a cruel and decadent pre-human civilization. Moorcock and Elric are often characterized as a negation or rejection of Howardian swords & sorcery, but that’s a drastic oversimplification of Moorcock’s relationship to pulp fantasy. Moorcock was precocious fantasy talent, creating fanzines as a schoolboy and becoming editor of the professional magazine Tarzan Adventures by the age 17 in 1957. Moorcock was a notable contributor to AMRA, a fanzine that was a hotbed of discussion about fantasy fiction and counted among its many notable correspondents Poul Anderson, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, and Roger Zelazny. As mentioned here, the term “swords and sorcery” was coined by Fritz Leiber in dialogue with Moorcock, although Moorcock has always preferred the term “epic fantasy”. Moorcock has at times minimized but never totally denied his appreciation for Howard, most likely hoping to let the Elric saga stand on its own two feet. He’s also held up his deep regard for the works of Leigh Brackett, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fritz Leiber, and Fletcher Pratt among others and was later a founding member of the Swordsmen and Sorceror's Guild of America, none of which indicates someone contemptuous or indifferent to fantasy fiction. Moorcock continued to write Elric stories in the late 1960s and the 1970s that were set prior to the events of Stormbringer. DAW Books republished the Elric Saga in 1977, arranging the stories by internal chronology, splitting the stories from The Stealer of Souls between The Weird of the White Wolf and The Bane of the Black Sword, the third and fifth books of Elric’s saga respectively. With Moorcock’s approval, Del Rey/Ballantine began publishing the “definitive” version of Elric’s saga in 2008, once again collecting the stories in publication order. Elric’s saga clearly had an impact on Gary Gygax as he specifically mentions Elric as a playable figure in the “Fantasy Supplement” to Chainmail (1971). The Law vs. Chaos alignment system in Chainmail and original Dungeons & Dragons (1974) may have originated with Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions, but there’s a distinct Moorcockian flavor in practice, although that would obviously vary from gaming group to gaming group. Rob Kuntz and James Ward wrote up Elric and the Melnibonéan mythos in the fourth Dungeons & Dragons supplement, Gods, Demi-Gods, & Heroes (1976). Four years later, Kuntz and Ward would detail the Melnibonéan mythos for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in Deities & Demigods (1980). Although TSR had permission from Moorcock to use Elric for D&D, their West Coast rivals Chaosium secured the official Elric license in 1981, leading TSR to remove the Melnibonéan section (and Cthulhu Mythos section) from the third printing onwards of Deities & Demigods. As a result, the first two printings of Deities & Demigods are now highly sought after collector’s items. In the meantime, Elric’s gaming presence has remained tightly bound up in the RuneQuest/Basic Role-Playing system for over 25 years, with the exception of Chaosium’s D20 System adaptation Dragon Lords of Melniboné (2001). There is currently no gaming license for any of Michael Moorcock’s works, so it remains to be seen if Elric will ever make an official reappearance at the gaming table….
Christine (C.A.) Verstraete enjoys putting a little "scare" in her writing. Her latest book, Lizzie Borden, Zombie Hunter, offers a twist on the Lizzie Borden murders. She also is author of a young adult book, GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie, and books on dollhouse collecting and crafting, including Dollhouse Decor & More and In Miniature Style II. Christine's short stories have appeared in various anthologies including: Happy Homicides 3: Summertime Crime, Mystery Weekly, Young Adventurers: Heroes, Explorers and Swashbucklers, Athena's Daughters, Silence in the Library; Feast of the Dead: Hors D'Oeuvres; Darlings of Decay; 100 Doors to Madness; Timeshares, Steampunk'd, and Hot & Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance, DAW Books; andThe Corner Cafe: A Tasty Collection of Short Stories. She is an award-winning journalist with stories published in daily to weekly newspapers and in various magazines. Her stories have received awards from local and national newspaper associations, and the Dog Writer's Association of America. She is available for signings or appearances, including a PowerPoint presentation on zombies, writing and the history of Lizzie Borden. Visit her website,http://cverstraete.com or blog, http://girlzombieauthors.blogspot.com.
Gini Koch got to spend some time with the CPPN and chat about her writing trials and tribulations and her newest books Plush Life and the Kickstartered Mech! Gini Koch writes the fast, fresh and funny Alien/Katherine "Kitty" Katt series for DAW Books, the Necropolis Enforcement Files series, and the Martian Alliance Chronicles series. (reposted from http://creativeplayandpodcastnetwork.podbean.com/)
Gini Koch got to spend some time with the CPPN and chat about her writing trials and tribulations and her newest books Plush Life and the Kickstartered Mech! Gini Koch writes the fast, fresh and funny Alien/Katherine "Kitty" Katt series for DAW Books, the Necropolis Enforcement Files series, and the Martian Alliance Chronicles series.
This week the Two Gay Geeks have an interview with the High Priestess of Pop Culture, Gini Koch, the author of the Alien Katherine “Kitty” Kat series from DAW Books. Be aware that there are some SPOILERS in the latter half of the interview. We also have our Birthdays and Listener Feedback segments. Check below in this article for important links to items mentioned in the show. As always we welcome your feedback, let us know what you think, good or bad we want to know. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us. Our YouTube channel is Two Gay Geeks (audio only):Show Notes / Links: Fox To Not Make “Fantastic Four” Sequel… For Now! Trailer For Fox’s “Second Chance” – A Modern-Day Frankenstein Phoenix Comicon FanFest Thank YouThe Arkle Times Post Dispatch News - @arkle Doctor Who Fancast Guide - Dr Who: Talking Who on Twitter @TalkingWho We want to give a special shout out to the Facebook Group “The Gay Geek” for graciously allowing us to post our episodes to their page. Look for them at www.facebook.com/groups/thegaygeek. And a special Thank You to Jeremiah Reeves, the moderator, for being such a great guy. Are you a writer? The Two Gay Geeks don’t get to go to every movie that gets released. The PR houses have not deemed us “worthy” yet. So, if you fancy yourself as a movie reviewer and wish to write a review of a new film, get in touch with us using the contact us page and use the subject line of Movie Review Options. We can then contact you and work out the details. Thank you. Social Media We can now be found on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Google +, see the links on the right sidebar. You are Important To UsWe welcome your suggestions. Let us know what you like or don’t like or if you have an opinion or comment on an article or the show. You may email us below, comment on Facebook, or call our listener line at 469.TG Geeks (469.844.3357). Let us know if there is something we should be watching and why, we may just give you a shout-out in a future episode. We will not publish or use your email address to spam you.
Frederik Pohl, one of the legends of science fiction, passed away just a few days ago on September 2, 2013. In memory of his life and work today's episode contains an interview he gave me back in 2010 shortly after he'd turned 90 years old. Topics: How he and Arthur C. Clarke became friends many decades ago; and how in Arthur's declining years Arthur asked Fred to finish a book that he had started but could not complete. Fred's years working as a literary agent--during which he became Isaac Asimov's first agent, and sold Isaac's first novel: A Pebble in the Sky. His work as the editor of various magazines including Astonishing, Galaxy and If--which is when he bought Larry Niven's first few professional stories, and when he hired Judy-Lynn del Rey as his secretary at Galaxy Magazine even though she knew nothing about Science Fiction at the time. (This was long before she worked at Ballantine Books, married Lester del Rey, and became so influential at Ballantine that they put her in charge of an imprint and named it after her.) Miscellaneous topics include: how he came to write for Playboy Magazine; why he wrote under so many pseudonyms; his method of collaborating with other authors; and how he become Encyclopedia Britannica's first official authority on the Roman Emperor Tiberius; predicting the future using the Delphi Method; his co-founding ofThe Futurians; his nonfiction books: The Way the Future Was, Our Angry Earth, and Science as a Spectator Sport; the Americanization of the world (which he has witnessed by traveling to more than 50 different nations); his modest contribution to democracy in Moscow; how he was excluded from attending the very first WorldCon; and a few insights about his long-term friends: Donald A. Wollheim (the creator of DAW Books), andIsaac Asimov. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the September 4, 2013 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 61 minutes] This interview was recorded on January 30, 2010. Frederik Pohl is a science fiction writer, and has been a book and magazine editor, as well as a poet, critic, literary agent and teacher. He edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine If, winning the Hugo for If three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993.
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Photo courtesy of the talented Al Bogdan. Welcome back for Episode 52 of Speculate! The Podcast for Writers, Readers and Fans. In this episode we continue our sequence of shows on Throne of the Crescent Moon, the new sword and sorcery book by Saladin Ahmed, with an interview of DAW Books president, editor-in-chief and veteran […]
Frederik Pohl (author of Gateway--the classic science fiction novel which won the Nebula, Hugo, Campbell and Locus awards) is today's featured guest. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the February 10, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 34 minutes] This is the first half of this interview, which was recorded on January 30, 2010. Topics: predicting the future using the Delphi Method; his co-founding of The Futurians; his nonfiction books: The Way the Future Was, Our Angry Earth, and Science as a Spectator Sport; the Americanization of the world (which he has witnessed by traveling to more than 50 different nations); his modest contribution to democracy in Moscow; how he was excluded from attending the very first WorldCon; and a few insights about his long-term friends: Donald A. Wollheim (the creator of DAW Books), and Isaac Asimov. Frederik Pohl is a science fiction writer, and has been a book and magazine editor, as well as a poet, critic, literary agent and teacher. He edited Galaxy magazine and its sister magazine If, winning the Hugo for If three years in a row. His writing also won him three Hugos and multiple Nebula Awards. He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993. I asked Fred for this interview for several reasons: I'd read Gateway in 1977 when it first came out (I was 22 and still impressionable); a few weeks ago, his buddy Gregory Benford suggested that I interview him; and because, just a few months ago, Frederik Pohl celebrated his 90th birthday.
Authors David Drake, John Ringo and Joe Haldeman are featured guests; as are Peter Stampfel (Editor at DAW Books) and three professional models: Aria Giovanni, Aimee Sweet and Linda Tran. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the June 1, 2006 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 104 minutes] --- Topics include: [1] News-briefs concerning: the questionable ethics of the giant video game companies in general and Nintendo in particular; some hard numbers on global warming; the internal tug-of-war at CNN over Lou Dobbs and illegal immigrants; and how this show's host has been offered the email addresses of a quarter billion people. [2] David Drake on the surprising truth of what's holding back the popularity of e-books. He also talks about his participation in the new online science fiction and fantasy magazine from Baen Books called: Jim Baen's Universe. [3] Joe Haldeman has just won yet another Nebula award. Your host asks him to describe the ceremony, what emotions it produced in him and a bit about the book he won with which is called: Camouflage. [4] The many disturbing trends within book publishing are explained by Peter Stampfel who has been the submissions editor at DAW books in New York City for twenty-five years. He also describes an obscure form of quasi-homosexual fan fiction called: Slash Fiction. A lifelong musician, he also provides a song from his CD The Jig is Up called: Song of Man. [5] Chapter seven in our serialization of the novel: Bones Burnt Black. [6] John Ringo makes the case for nuclear power (especially pebble bed reactors) and mentions his short story which will appear in Jim Baen's Universe. [7] Celebrity interviews with three nude models who specialize in the erotic: Aria Giovanni (Penthouse Pet September 2000), Aimee Sweet (Penthouse Pet August 1998 and Perfect Ten model for Spring of 1998), and Linda Tran (who has appeared in magazines, calendars, videos and Pay-Per-View).
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