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Anne Eekhout schreef het boek Mary over Mary Shelley, de auteur van het wereldberoemde spookverhaal Frankenstein. In deze podcast geeft ze een inkijkje in de roman. Hoe kwam Shelley op het idee om over het monster van Frankenstein te schrijven? Wat inspireerde haar? En welke delen van het verhaal zijn waargebeurd? Maar we bespreken ook waarom het voor elke schrijver interessant kan zijn om eens een spookverhaal te schrijven. Hoe kun je jezelf inspireren voor zo'n verhaal?
Greg van Eekhout is sci-fi/fantasy author who writes for adults and middle-grade readers. Some of his books include "Cog" and "Voyage of the Dogs," and his latest book, "Weird Kid," just came out in November 2021.
Earth is coming to inspect its colony after 200 years, and the colonist scramble to conform to an Earthling society.To download, right-click here and then click SaveJoin the Journey Into Patreon to get extra episodes and personal addresses, plus other extras and rewards.Robert Sheckley was an American writer born in 1928. First published in the science-fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist, and broadly comical. He was best known for his several hundred short stories, which he published in book form as well as individually. Nominated for Hugo and Nebula Awards, Sheckley was named Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2001.X Minus One was a half-hour science fiction radio drama series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X (1950–51), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.Relevant Links:"In The Late December" by Greg van Eekhout on Escape Pod #138 Theme music: Liberator by Man In SpaceTo comment on this or any episode:Leave us a voicemail at 77-JINTO-107 (775-4686-107)Send comments and/or recordings to journeyintopodcat@gmail.comTweet us us TwitterPost a comment on Facebook here
Iedereen kent het monster van Frankenstein, maar weinigen weten dat dat monster ontsproten is aan het brein van de 18-jarige Mary Shelley. Anne Eekhout schreef over haar de historische roman Mary. Verder in Het Spoor Terug: het ware verhaal van de St-Elisabethsvloed, OVT 21-11-21.
Het zijn misschien wel de drie beroemdste woorden uit de filmgeschiedenis: “It's alive!” Dr. Frankenstein riep deze woorden uit toen zijn monster, door de bliksem getroffen, tot leven kwam. Hoewel iedereen wel het monster van Frankenstein kent, weten maar weinigen dat dat monster ooit ontsproten is aan het brein van een 18-jarig meisje tijdens een verregende zomervakantie in Zwitserland: Mary Shelley heette zij.Schrijfster Anne Eekhout was gefascineerd door Mary Shelley, en hoe zij in 1816 een monster tot leven wekte dat nog altijd tot onze verbeelding spreekt. Anne schreef er een historische roman over, Mary, en is te gast.
Annemieke Bosman spreekt schrijver Anne Eekhout over haar roman Mary Mary Shelley verblijft op haar veertiende bij een familie in Schotland, waar een innige vriendschap ontstaat met Isabella Baxter. Samen dwalen ze in het gebied dat al eeuwen verhalen herbergt over monsters en geesten, en op een dag stuiten ze diep in het bos op een man die geen man is. De ledematen log en lelijk, een hoofd dat noch menselijk, noch dierlijk is. Vier jaar later brengt Mary met haar geliefde Percy Shelley een bezoek aan haar vrienden John Polidori en Lord Byron, bij het Meer van Genève. 's Avonds bij het haardvuur vertellen ze elkaar verhalen. Een flintertje herinnering brengt haar terug naar haar tijd met Isabella in Schotland, en ook naar David Booth, een zeer intelligente, charismatische, maar tegelijk ook griezelige man, die een grote interesse in Mary en Isabella ontwikkelde. Dan dient ook het monster uit het bos zich weer aan, en vanuit die gedachte ontstaat haar verhaal over het monster van Frankenstein.
In Dordrecht wordt dit jaar uitgebreid stilgestaan bij het feit dat het 600 jaar geleden is dat de Sint Elisabethsvloed plaatsvond. Bij die vloed kwam de Dordtse (of ‘Groote') Waard onder water te staan. Daarbij kwam een aanzienlijk aantal mensen om het leven, maar hoeveel is nog altijd onduidelijk. De ramp is dus vernoemd naar Sint Elisabeth. En dat is een bewuste keuze geweest. “Sint Elisabeth is de beschermheilige van de mensen in nood; bedelaars, vluchtelingen, mensen die getroffen zijn door een ramp”, zegt conservator Marianne Eekhout van het Dordrechts Museum. In het museum is tot maart van dit jaar de expositie Elisabeth en de Vloed te zien. In de zesde aflevering van de Dagvantoen-podcast geeft Eekhout antwoord op de vraag wie deze Elisabeth precies was en waarom de ramp haar naam kreeg. Een van de panelen over de Sint Elisabethsvloed. Afbeelding: Rijksmuseum In Hoek van Holland maakt men zich op voor een jubileum, volgend jaar. Dan is de Nieuwe Waterweg 150 jaar oud. “En zonder Nieuwe Waterweg geen Hoek van Holland”, zegt Henk van der Lugt van het Historisch Genootschap Hoek van Holland in een uitgebreid gesprek. Er staan allerlei evenementen gepland en mogelijk keren ook de Hoekse havendagen voor één keer weer terug. Lees verder: Rotterdam heeft eindelijk de langverwachte verbinding met zee: de Nieuwe Waterweg In Uyt den Oude Dhoos gaan we terug naar Katwijk in de jaren ‘50, waar men toen begon met nauwkeurig onderzoek naar de hoogte van de golven.
Becca and Gary are back and it's a new month, which means we once again have a huge number of new titles and new events to get into! .Events this week: Tuesday, August 3rd: Dan Hornsby, in conversation with Jared Bartman Wednesday, August 4th: Dianne Freeman, in conversation with Erica Ruth Neubauer Thursday, August 5th: Suzanne Park, in conversation with Christina Lauren Friday, August 6th: Greg van Eekhout, in conversation with Jenn Reese Sunday, August 8th: Romance Book Club (You Had Me At Hola) Monday, August 9th: Peter V. Brett, in conversation with Robin Hobb New this week: So We Meet Again by Suzanne Park The Desert Prince by Peter V. Brett Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown Class Act by Stuart Woods Her Heart for a Compass by Sarah Ferguson Where the Truth Lies by Anna Bailey Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So Starlight Enclave by R.A. Salvatore The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams Shallow Waters by Anita Kopacz The Quiet Zone by Stephen Kurczy The Viking Heart by Arthur Herman Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka Holdout by Jeffrey Kluger Billy Summers by Stephen King Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots by Pearl Low, based on the novel by Marcia Thornton Jones and Debbie Dadey Being Clem by Lesa Cline-Ransome Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbalia Dark Waters by Katherine Arden The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gould Dead Wednesday by Jerry Spinelli J.R.R. Tolkien for Kids by Simonetta Carr Larry Gets Lost in the Library by Eric Ode, illustrated by John Skewes A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin Stowaway by John David Anderson Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins You can now find us on Patreon! Unlock exclusive content by subscribing today! Special thanks to Austin Farmer for letting us use the track "Kill the Farm Boy", from his album Bookshelf Symphony Orchestra! Send us your questions to mystgalaxypod@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok! And support the store by ordering books at mystgalaxy.com!
Author Greg van Eekhout pays the podcast a visit to talk about some of his early influences and his newest book WEIRD KID out July 20th from HarperCollins. Bookshop.org Episode Page
Author Greg van Eekhout pays the podcast a visit to talk about some of his early influences and his newest book WEIRD KID out July 20th from HarperCollins. Bookshop.org Episode Page
Authors : Greg van Eekhout, Ian Randal Strock and Madge E. Miller Narrators : Serah Eley, Elie Hirschman and John Meagher Host : Mur Lafferty Audio Producers : Summer Brooks and Serah Eley Flash From the Vault Hi there and welcome to Escape Pod Summer School, where we post some of our favorite episodes from […] Source
Wat is echte liefde in de toekomst, en hoeveel heb je daarvoor over? Anne Eekhout geeft ons het tragische liefdesverhaal LEREN VERGETEN, waarin menselijke trouw niet onvoorwaardelijk is. Anne Eekhout (1981) is schrijver. Haar laatste roman is 'Nicolas en de verdwijning van de wereld'. Haar werk werd genomineerd voor de BNG Literatuurprijs en stond op de AKO Literatuurprijs-longlist. Ze schreef voor onder meer VARA-gids, ELLE, NRC en AD. Stem: Jilles Flinterman Techniek en geluidsontwerp: Arno Peeters Redactie: Wytske Versteeg Host: Rinke Vreeke Onderzoek: Lisette van Beek (Urban Futures Studio, Universiteit Utrecht) Illustraties: Reinout Dijkstra Concept en eindredactie: Tom Loois Ansicht is een programma van stadslab RAUM in Utrecht en wordt mede gefinancierd door Het Letterenfonds.
They Will Find Us Here, a story by Anne Eekhout, translated by Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen, read to you by Joshua Baumgarten. They can bite, cut your soul into pieces. That’s what they say, at least. Two lovers have fled from nameless creatures to a high cliff. Waiting for salvation. Via heart resonance they try to send an emergency signal. But their call for help may just as well be their downfall. This is a story from literary magazine for Grounded SF "2.3.74" (4), with stories from the Netherlands and Flanders. Read all stories at www.magazine2374.com/.
Tom talks with Greg van Eekhout, author of Voyage of the Dogs and California Bones about dogs, writing from local influences, and what the Nebulas mean to him. Also Tom embarrasses himself at least twice!
Schrijver Anne Eekhout komt met haar derde boek: ‘Nicolas en de verdwijning van de wereld’. Op een doodgewone middag komt er een verontrustende boodschap: een zwart gat is onderweg naar de aarde. De kans dat de mensheid en alles daaromheen zal worden weggevaagd is groot. Maar hoe red je de wereld als je acht bent? Eekhout schreef eerder de boeken ‘Dogma’ en ‘Op Een Nacht’. Presentatie: Frénk van der Linden
“In the Late December” by Greg van Eekhout(Originally published in Strange Horizons.)Here's a secret of the North Pole: Santa powders his hands with talc before donning his thick red mittens.It is a small secret, true, but some would give anything to steal even that. A secret is a detail, and here in the late December, a detail is as precious as a true name.Santa, a red exclamation in a white world, walks the reindeer line, stroking sugar-and-cinnamon fur. The reindeer shiver and snort and stamp their hooves, the lines connecting them to the parcel-laden sleigh jingling. Santa looks over to his candy-brick castle and waves good-bye, but no one stands in the doorway to wave back. With a sigh, he climbs onto the sleigh's driver's seat, the bench creaking beneath his weight. He pauses, holding the smooth and supple leather reins, and considers how to start the team. Onward? A-heya? Giddyup? Ho-ho? No, he's already used those. He makes a point of uttering a different word to inaugurate every outing, because he's been doing this for a long time, and if he didn't deliberately insert some bit of novelty into the procedure, he fears his jolly round head might well explode. That is another detail.Then he has it. He snaps his fingers (no mean feat in his mittens) and with a brisk snap of the reins, he shouts, "Zorxa!"Zorxa was a great emperor whose realm once encompassed sixteen degrees of the Curvature, and though his despotic rule made him a natural enemy, Zorxa knew how to accept a gift as well as anyone.Greg van Eekhout lives in San Diego with his astronomy/physics professor wife and two dogs. He used to develop educational software for a living, but now writes full time, which he enjoys much better. His novels range from adult science fiction and fantasy to middle grade and include The Norse Code, the California Bones trilogy, Kid vs. Squid, and The Boy at the End of the World. His next book, a middle-grade novel about dogs on a spaceship, is due out in Fall 2018. You can find more about him at his website: writingandsnacks.com.About the Narrator:Eric Luke is the screenwriter of the Joe Dante film Explorers, which is currently in development as a remake; has written for the comic books Ghost and Wonder Woman; and wrote and directed the Not Quite Human films for Disney TV. His current project, Interference (a meta horror audiobook about an audiobook... that kills), is a bestseller on Audible.com. His website for creative projects is Quillhammer.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Greg van Eekhout joined us at Phoenix Comic Con for a live-audience Q&A session about Elemental Relationship writing. Here are the questions: What is your favorite way to establish relationships? How do you recover when a relationship starts to feel forced? How do you show a "best friend" relationship? How do you decide the pacing of the romance? Do you try to make the nature of character relationships clear, or do you leave it to subtext? How do you go about writing transsexual relationships? What are your favorite relationships to write? How do I write the beginning of a relationship between characters the reader has not yet really met? How do you transform love into hate, and vice-versa? When writing a love triangle, how do you avoid telegraphing the final resolution? Do you have recommendations for books that focus on familial friend relationships rather than romance? Credits: this episode was recorded live at Phoenix Comic-Con by Jeff Cools, and mastered by Alex Jackson
This episode of the Drabblecast brings you “A Last Kiss for Lazarus Winters,” another story in D.K. Thompson’s Saint Darwin’s Spirituals series. D.K. Thompson was the host and co-editor of PodCastle, a fantasy fiction podcast, for five years, and has narrated audiobooks by Tim Pratt, Greg van Eekhout, and James Maxey, among others. Story Excerpt: […] The post Drabblecast 376 – A Last Kiss for Lazarus Winters (A Saint Darwin’s Spiritual) appeared first on The Drabblecast.
Stories Discussed This Episode: A Kiss With Teeth by Max Gladstone Select Character by Hugh Howey The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher Dragon Coast by Greg van Eekhout
October is here, so John E. O. Stevens, Fred Kiesche and Jeff Patterson decide to go west to the magic-infused realm of California for a chat with Greg van Eekhout. Greg educates the Hoarsemen on the importance of tacos, things that are terrible but wonderful but terrible, the discipline of outlining, the pitfalls with the “urban fantasy” label, writing for kids and adults, and why it isn’t cool to eat a wizard in Northern California. In this month’s culture consumed, Fred went to The Martian, Jeff went to Capclave, and John went to a big-ass book sale. Host Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens and Jeff Patterson with Greg van Eekhout.
Our fifth podcast for February is “The Osteomancer's Son” written by Greg van Eekhout and read by Kate Baker. First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April/May 2006. Subscribe to our podcast.
First Story: “The Last Worders” by Karen Joy Fowler Charlotta was asleep in the dining car when the train arrived in San Margais. It was tempting to just leave her behind, and I tried to tell myself this wasn’t a mean thought, but came to me because I, myself, might want to be left like that, just for the adventure of it. I might want to wake up hours later and miles away, bewildered and alone. I am always on the lookout for those parts of my life that could be the first scene in a movie. Of course, you could start a movie anywhere, but you wouldn’t; that’s my point. And so this impulse had nothing to do with the way Charlotta had begun to get on my last nerve. That’s my other point. If I thought being ditched would be sort of exciting, then so did Charlotta. We felt the same about everything. Karen Joy Fowler is the author of six novels and three short story collections. The Jane Austen Book Club spent thirteen weeks on the New... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Southern California can seem magical, thanks to sunny skies, warm weather, orange groves and movie stars. In Greg van Eekhout‘s California Bones (Tor Books, 2014) the magic is real. The Kingdom of Southern California is ruled by osteomancers who draw power and wealth from potions derived from the bones of magical creatures. In his conversation with Rob Wolf, the new host of New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Eekhout discusses, among other things, his interest in myths and magic, the impact of his Dutch-Indonesian heritage on his writing, protagonist Daniel Blackland’s complex relationship with his father, and Eekhout’s use of outlines to plot his books. This is Rob Wolf’s debut interview as host of New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for many years as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform, and now serves as director of communications for a think tank in New York City. He blogs at Rob Wolf Books and I Saw it Today. Follow him on Twitter: @RobWolfBooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Southern California can seem magical, thanks to sunny skies, warm weather, orange groves and movie stars. In Greg van Eekhout‘s California Bones (Tor Books, 2014) the magic is real. The Kingdom of Southern California is ruled by osteomancers who draw power and wealth from potions derived from the bones of magical creatures. In his conversation with Rob Wolf, the new host of New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Eekhout discusses, among other things, his interest in myths and magic, the impact of his Dutch-Indonesian heritage on his writing, protagonist Daniel Blackland’s complex relationship with his father, and Eekhout’s use of outlines to plot his books. This is Rob Wolf’s debut interview as host of New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for many years as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform, and now serves as director of communications for a think tank in New York City. He blogs at Rob Wolf Books and I Saw it Today. Follow him on Twitter: @RobWolfBooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Southern California can seem magical, thanks to sunny skies, warm weather, orange groves and movie stars. In Greg van Eekhout‘s California Bones (Tor Books, 2014) the magic is real. The Kingdom of Southern California is ruled by osteomancers who draw power and wealth from potions derived from the bones of magical creatures. In his conversation with Rob Wolf, the new host of New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy, Eekhout discusses, among other things, his interest in myths and magic, the impact of his Dutch-Indonesian heritage on his writing, protagonist Daniel Blackland’s complex relationship with his father, and Eekhout’s use of outlines to plot his books. This is Rob Wolf’s debut interview as host of New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Rob Wolf is the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. He worked for many years as a journalist, writing on a wide range of topics from science to justice reform, and now serves as director of communications for a think tank in New York City. He blogs at Rob Wolf Books and I Saw it Today. Follow him on Twitter: @RobWolfBooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Van Eekhout, Greg. THE BOY AT THE END OF THE WORLD