Podcasts about Robert Charles Wilson

For our first episode of 2025, we touch upon novels we've been reading for the new year, including Charles Stross's 13th Laundry novel/collection A Conventional Boy and Ray Nayler's Where the Axe is Buried, as well as the frustrations of reading books on deadlines—as opposed to wallowing in them at leisure, and some non-SF writers we like. Gary then mentions how hard it is to gain perspective on novels of the past year, and suggests looking instead at important books of the entire past quarter-century from the perspective of 2025.  We only got partway through his list, which included novels by Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Octavia Butler, M. John Harrison, Margaret Atwood, Susanna Clarke, Gene Wolfe, Cixin Liu, and Robert Charles Wilson; collections by Kelly Link, Margo Lanagan, and Jeff Ford; anthologies by Sheree R. Thomas and Gardner Dozois—the last of which leads to a discussion of the durability of space opera as a defining SF theme. Plenty of stuff to argue with this week!

For our first episode of 2025, we touch upon novels we've been reading for the new year, including Charles Stross's 13th Laundry novel/collection A Conventional Boy and Ray Nayler's Where the Axe is Buried, as well as the frustrations of reading books on deadlines—as opposed to wallowing in them at leisure, and some non-SF writers we like. Gary then mentions how hard it is to gain perspective on novels of the past year, and suggests looking instead at important books of the entire past quarter-century from the perspective of 2025.  We only got partway through his list, which included novels by Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Octavia Butler, M. John Harrison, Margaret Atwood, Susanna Clarke, Gene Wolfe, Cixin Liu, and Robert Charles Wilson; collections by Kelly Link, Margo Lanagan, and Jeff Ford; anthologies by Sheree R. Thomas and Gardner Dozois—the last of which leads to a discussion of the durability of space opera as a defining SF theme. Plenty of stuff to argue with this week!

Månedens bog har verdens mærkeligste præmis. Hvad hvis jorden blev puttet i en tidslomme, og universet omkring os udviklede sig 100 mio. gange hurtigere end os? I Robert Charles Wilsons "Spin" bliver Mars terraformet, og Kosmos bliver udforsket, alt imens der blot går 30 år på jorden.

Seriah is joined by Barbara Fisher and Amber, the Witch of Noccalula, to discuss the Satanic Panic in American history, pop culture, and current events. Topics include Dungeons and Dragons, a personal experience with censorship of a D&D afterschool club, the 2022 documentary “Satanic Panic”, the 1982 movie “Mazes and Monsters” starring Tom Hanks, the blaming of metal bands for youth suicide, the gross misinterpretation of Ozzie Osbourne's song “Suicide Solution”, the book “Michelle Remembers” by Lawrence Pazder and Michelle Smith, hypnotic regression and false memories, generational attitudes, the Moral Majority, Anita Bryant, the Mormon involvement in the Satanic Panic, reality TV ghost hunting shows and demonology, Beatrice Sparks, “Go Ask Alice”, “Jay's Journal”, Rick Emerson “Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries”, Runyon v. McCrary 1976 Supreme Court case desegregating private schools, the rise of Catholic/Protestant allied political conservatism, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, philosophy vs biblical interpretations of the beginning of human life, the rise of the religious right, disguised racism, Q-Anon, the Confederate flag, the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capital, West Virginia vs the Confederacy, John Brown, Appalachian Scotch/Irish anti-slavery attitudes, ahistorical views of Satan, the Silent Generation, anti-Polish prejudice, Seriah's personal experience in an interracial relationship, homophobia in 20th century America, Amber's personal experience with a mixed race family, the time Seriah went to church, C.S. Lewis, Satan as a psychological trigger, Seriah's alleged Satanic cult member pen pal, Barbara's experiences running a metaphysical book store and engaging in interfaith dialogue meetings, Amber's emotional abuse as a Catholic child, Barbara's youthful experiences in different Christian denominations, the novel “The Chronoliths” by Robert Charles Wilson, the case of the “West Memphis Three”, the “Paradise Lost” documentary series, demonic possession vs mental illness, the existence of Satan, Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan, exorcism and its contradictions, “The Exorcist” movie, the Warrens and “The Conjuring” movies, demonic possession in ghost hunting reality TV, critical thinking and education, Seriah and younger people without basic life skills, Seriah and a heavy metal zine banned from a public school computer lab, scape-goating after Columbine, the Roman Emperor Constantine and making of the Roman Catholic Church as a state religion, the burning of the Library of Alexandria and the murder of Hypatia, origins of anti-Semitism, and much more! This is an intense but highly valuable discussion!

Robert Charles Wilson joins us to discuss his books The Perseids and Other Stories and Owning the Unknown: A Science Fiction Writer Explores Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Idea of God. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason is a genius, Diane is a diamond, ED is a Lawton, and Carol is drunk. Our narrator - He's just Tyler. This month we read Spin by Robert Charles Wilson. We liked it! Lori is DM. Note: There is no actual discussion of eating disorders in this episode or in the book. One character is named ED, and his name is repeated one million times. Transcript Library  Music by Pets of Belonging Links: Speculition's Review of Spin

Tyler, Jason, and Diane are growing up together in the suburbs of Washington, DC. One night, as they are outside looking up at the sky, something shocking happens - all the stars go out at once. The 'Hypotheticals' have wrapped the earth in a spin membrane that isolates the Earth, making time move millions of times slower inside the barrier than outside. In Tyler, Diane, and Jason's lifetime the sun will turn into a red giant and consume the earth - unless they can figure out how to escape the Spin!Join the Hugonauts book club on discord!Or you can watch the episode on YouTube if you prefer videoThis week we were joined by Jonathan from Words in Time - check out his channel on YouTube!Similar books we recommend: Contact - Carl Sagan (https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/episodes/contact)Childhood's End - Arthur C. ClarkeThree Body Problem - Cixin Liu (https://hugonauts.simplecast.com/episodes/the-three-body-problem)

"Spin" by Robert Charles Wilson, is an epic tale.  So, yeah. There's a boat load of stuff we didn't get to talk about.

In this week's episode, we look at the immensity of the history of the universe, and all the things living there, in comparison with the eyeblink time scale of the human race as we come face to face with our much older and more powerful neighbors in Spin by Robert Charles Wilson.  When coming to terms with our fate gets too much, we hide inside Rabbit Hole Cavehill Bourbon.

Dave Margosian joins Seth to discuss Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin (2006 winner). Thanks to everyone listening, and stay safe out there. Time Codes: Start – 5:09 Intro/getting to know Dave 5:10 – 17:47 Non-Spoiler discussion 17:48 – end Spoiler discussion Notes & Links: French Short Films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4mR0zHLvFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nimdMExY1-c

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you three terrifying tales from authors Richard Saxon, Eigengraulogy, and Robert Charles Wilson, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about devilish disorders, terrifying traditions, and the unsettling reality of quantum immortality. See full episode details, including the text of the featured stories, here: https://www.simplyscarypodcast.com/series/scary-stories-told-in-the-dark/s3e15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Où il est question de paradoxes temporels, d’effet de déjà vu, de paradoxes temporels, avec des livres Prix Hugo ou la terre tourne trop vite, de thriller quantique, de Chroniques de rois, de voyages temporels en Allemagne, de BD fun, de Meta dans le meta, et de paradoxes temporels avec effets de déjà-vu. Timeline de ce dont on discute: Episode 2 • Comment ca va ? - 00:00 • Livre – Spin de Robert Charles Wilson(lisez le que diable, il a eu le prix HUGO) 02:35 • Livre – Dark Matter de Blake Crouch, un thriller quantique (moi, plus moi, plus moi) 07:15 • Livre – King Killer Chronicles, de Patrick Rothfuss - 13:11 • Livre – StormLight Archive, de Brandon Sanderson - 19:23 • Serie TV – Dark (en fait mon pere est le frere de ma soeur, mais je suis fils unique..) – 25:20 • Serie TV – 10% - 30:22 • BD – Quai d’Orsay - 34:34 • Jeu video – Stanley Parable (foncez, il vaut le coup pour un Meta dans le meta) – 44:47 • Jeu video – Her Story – 50:13 • Cloture avec un petit solo de Dan (Dan Solo, ha ha ha) – 56:45 Bonne écoute ! et donnez-nous vos recommandations dans les commentaires ou en nous écrivant sur sjpmp@outlook.com

This week: Joey asks Aaron about how we might be thinking about Kanye wrong, and Aaron asks Joey about depressed futurists. Kanye's YeKid Cudi's KIDS SEE GHOSTS Bain: The Labor Market by 2020The Hugo Award-winner: Robert Charles Wilson's Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

Show notes: https://bit.ly/2wsDgC8 Two Week Catch-Up: Robert discovers Kroger Fuel Rewards-- "If you stack up all of the digital coupons right, you can pump gas for as cheap as four cents a gallon!" Nerdy News: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Gets Grilled by Congress Over Privacy Issues Robert: "Assuming Facebook doesn't reveal my personal details to outsiders, I'm totally okay with them tracking and reselling all of my internet traffic data. It's not your data! It's Facebook's! You agreed to the million-page-long Terms of Service. You're not the customer; you're the product-- be prepared for your data to be sold and resold ad infinitum." Jermaine: "I'm not fine with my data being resold to third-parties I don't know about! At what point does one single company have too much power, information, and control?" Jenny: "Your personal information's all already out there. Folks sign the privacy statement-- what are you expecting? I have a 'trash-email' I use to sign up for websites. The websites get nothing!" Trailer Talk: Ant-Man & the Wasp Jenny: "When they shrink the building, wouldn't all the pipes underneath explode with water? How about all of the electrical and plumbing? 3.5 stars." Robert: "I'm with Jenny! Being a silly, superhero movie doesn't exonerate you from having to be internally consistent with the laws of your own universe! Three stars." Jermaine: "I think you guys are thinking too hard about this. The movie's about a guy who can shrink. I'm excited for this! This is Marvel's version of a heist movie and I love that genre. Paul Rudd and Michael Pena are hilarious. Four stars!" Review: Avengers: Infinity War Jermaine: "This a Thanos-movie, not an Avengers-movie. There are 71 characters in this movie! This movie accomplished something for me that hasn't happened since The Empire Strikes Back. Despite all the negative things that happened at the end, it gave me the hope I needed. Brilliantly crafted. Also, think of Thor's people-- only 12.5% of them remain at this point! Recommend." Robert: "I agree as a technical achievement, Infinity War is unprecedented. But there are no stakes! We know Black Panther and Spiderman are returning alive. C'mon-- they've got sequels in the works! No way Disney's leaving billions of dollars on the table! I begrudgingly recommend watching this movie." Jenny: "I don't want to watch movies with you! You're heartless! You've gotta use character knowledge-- not meta-knowledge! With so many stars, I was worried with everything coming together. Also, would there be enough time to highlight all the individual characters? I love this movie; go see this movie. I totally recommend." Recommendations: Jermaine plays A Way Out with Chris-- "It's a great, innovative co-op game that allows you to really create a bond with your partner. We blew through this game in two days!" Robert reads Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson-- "A time travel'ish novel where people from the future can travel back in time to the Civil War era. Lots of compelling ideas and I love RCW!" Jenny watches Sword Art Online-- "A little dated in its animation but it's just fabulous, especially for people who play MMOs. Terrific writing and easy to watch; I totally recommend it." Credits: "Evacuate the city. Engage our defenses. And get this man a shield."

Futurity! We review and discuss "Last Year" by Robert Charles Wilson.

Cam worries as Katie once again misses her climax while guest Chris gets deep and insightful while quoting a metal band. The Affinities by Robert Charles Wilson is 300 hardcover pages long.

In this episode, we're joined by author Robert Charles Wilson, who tells us about how he fell in love with speculative fiction — including stories such as Louis Slobodkin's The Space Ship Under the Apple Tree, the Mushroom Planet books by Eleanor Cameron, and Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time —  as soon as he learned to read. We'll learn how sf's juxtaposition of the ordinary with the extraordinary fascinated him, and how exploring the genre and its ideas was a reaction to growing up in an incurious family. Bob also talks about how he became a writer, and overcoming his anxiety about his work — an anxiety that gave him nightmares. We'll discuss some of the tropes frequently addressed in his stories, including unfathomable cosmic forces and how humanity deals with them, and how he'll sometimes examine them from different perspectives across several unrelated novels. We'll also talk about the presence of characters in his books who are on the autism spectrum. And we'll hear about some of the stories he's developing (including his novel Last Year, which was released in December 2016, a couple of months after our interview). Our interview took place in September 2016 near Bob's home in the Greater Toronto Area. Find out more about Robert Charles Wilson and his books on his website: robert-charles-wilson.com   Visit iTunes to subscribe to Invaders From Planet 3 and download episodes, and be sure to rate the show while you're there!  

[…] fière de consacrer sa soirée à l’âne, au boeuf et à la licorne allongés près de la mangeoire, la Salle 101 te souhaite une merveilleuse gastro-entérite et t’aide à te remettre en évoquant plusieurs médicaments culturels : Les perséides, de Robert Charles Wilson, Orphan Black, sérié télé canadienne diffusée sur thepiratebay.se, ainsi qu’une anthologie [...]

[…] fière de consacrer sa soirée à l'âne, au boeuf et à la licorne allongés près de la mangeoire, la Salle 101 te souhaite une merveilleuse gastro-entérite et t'aide à te remettre en évoquant plusieurs médicaments culturels : Les perséides, de Robert Charles Wilson, Orphan Black, sérié télé canadienne diffusée sur thepiratebay.se, ainsi qu'une anthologie […]

Our fifth piece of audio fiction for January is “Utriusque Cosmi” written by Robert Charles Wilson and read by Kate Baker.   First published in The New Space Opera 2,edited by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan. Subscribe to our podcast.

[…] Consternée par l'irruption de l'anti-France au sein du débat public, la Salle 101 apporte sa pierre personnelle au redressement national en parlant de Robert-Charles Wilson (À travers temps) et de l'épatant Effroyabl Ange1, du regretté Iain M. Banks. La Salle 101, c'est un peu la madeleine de Michel Sardou. « Comment je vais tous leur péter […]

[...] À quelques jours de l’élection du nouveau patron de l’UMP, la Salle 101 prend clairement partie et chante, oui, chante, tu as bien lu, chante les louanges de plein de trucs : Noir sur Blanc, de Ketty Steward (avec photographies de Bertrand Robion). Vortex, de Robert-Charles Wilson. La SF, c’est la vie. « Je la sens [...]

[…] À quelques jours de l'élection du nouveau patron de l'UMP, la Salle 101 prend clairement partie et chante, oui, chante, tu as bien lu, chante les louanges de plein de trucs : Noir sur Blanc, de Ketty Steward (avec photographies de Bertrand Robion). Vortex, de Robert-Charles Wilson. La SF, c'est la vie. « Je la […]

Science Fiction and Politics: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Part 2), Fall 2010, Emory University

Science Fiction and Politics: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Part 2), Fall 2010, Emory University

Science Fiction and Politics: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Part 1), Fall 2010, Emory University

Science Fiction and Politics: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Part 1), Fall 2010, Emory University

Science Fiction and Politics: Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson, Fall 2010, Emory University

Science Fiction and Politics: Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson, Fall 2010, Emory University

Besprochene Bücher: William Gibson: Quellcode / Helmuth W. Mommers (Hrsg.): Der Moloch - Visionen 4 / Ian McDonald: Brasyl / Robert Charles Wilson: Axis

Science Fiction and Politics: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Part 2), Spring 2007, Emory University

Science Fiction and Politics: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Part 2), Spring 2007, Emory University

Science Fiction and Politics: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Part 1), Spring 2007, Emory University

Science Fiction and Politics: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Part 1), Spring 2007, Emory University

Besprochene Bücher: Robert Charles Wilson: Spin / M. John Harrison: Die Centauri Maschine / Kazuo Ishiguro: Alles, was wir geben mussten / Nancy Kress: Kontakt / Ken Grimmwood: Replay