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Conversations with Authors of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Interview: Joe R. Lansdale is the author of the original short story from which the movie Bubba Ho-Tep was made. No, Elvis didn’t die. Yes, JFK had his brain stolen and his skin dyed black. And both of them team up to fight an evil soul-sucking mummy feeding off the elderly resident of a rest home. Strange, wild stuff.
Interview: Let’s carry the Bubba Ho-Tep theme forward for just a bit. Best known for the cult classics Phantasm and
In the twenty-first century, amidst six billion people and surveillance equipment able to tell a gnat’s sex from outer space, four monsters hid together in caves just outside the city of Kacianik, Kosovo, for nearly a century, until they attacked a captain of the US Army and left witnesses.
General Stone could barely contain himself. Vampires. Real life, blood sucking, coffin dwelling, God damned vampires. What if they could be captured? Studied? What if they could be kept under control and compelled to follow orders?
While the plot elements are not the most original in fantasy, this book has all the elements that people enjoy in fantasy novels. There are great fights, scary monsters, and unique and interesting characters. They all make for an enjoyable read. And Mr. Lowe builds up the momentum and suspense well, making the final fight between Sharon and Bain pretty damn exciting.
Interview: (Gotta love these in-studio interviews!) Timothy Zahn’s latest “Star Wars” novel is Survivor’s Quest, which takes place about 18 years after Return of The Jedi and follows the life of Luke and his new wife.
Many people who read and write science fiction believe that through the last few decades science fiction has actually prepared society for future technological advances. The idea, some say, is that in science fiction all the pitfalls, moral uncertainties, and roads best not traveled can be discovered and worked out in the pages of entertaining fiction, rather than bitter experience.
So why won’t this generation learn? If science fiction has taught us one thing, it’s that if you have the ability to go into the past in order to change events and make the world a better place… don’t do it! You’re just gonna fuck it up.
Richard K. Morgan
Richard’s latest book is Broken Angels, his second book following Takeshi Kovacs.
Anne Harris
Inventing Memory is the most recent book written by author Anne Harris. It’s an extrapolation of ancient Sumerian mythology transposed on modern American teenagers.
Dungeons & Dragons 30th Anniversary Special!
With Dave Arneson, Ed Stark & Bill Slavicsek from Wizards of the Coast, and Michael Stackpole
If Alfred Hitchcock produced and directed the television show 24, the end result would be The Da Vinci Code, a strap-yourself-in-and-hold-on-for-dear-life of a read that lives up to the hype and does not disappoint.
Ray Bradbury
Legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury joins us on the show this week! Let me repeat that. Ray Bradbury is on the show! Sixty years of writing, and the man is still going strong. Would you believe he has a new collection coming out this summer! Ray talks about The Cat’s Pajamas, his well-received television series… and how modern science fiction and fantasy stacks up against his generation.
Howard V. Hendrix
Break out your thinking cap people, as we talk with Howard about his latest book, The Labyrinth Key. It’s hard science fiction, mingling quantum computing and alternate universes with global espionage. Howard like to make sure the science in his work matches the real science happening in the real world today– and pushing that envelope up a few notches.
After listening to the interview with Piers Anthony, I decided to try one of the books in his “Incarnations of Immortality” series. The first book in the series is titled On a Pale Horse.
Bob Salvatore
Bob’s new book is The Highwayman an uncharacteristic stand-alone novel. The master of fantasy series has tried something new, and that is writing one book. That’s it!
Theresa Chaze
Debut novelist Theresa Chaze offers Dragon’s New Home, a modern-fantasy tale of wiccan-style witchcraft.
Megan Morrison Megan is the co-founder of The Sugar Quill, a fanfic site dedicated to the works of JK Rowling. Many of you will need a definition for the word fanfic, or the term fan fiction. We cover that and many of the issues and controversies surrounding this growing phenomenom. Yes, we know many of […]
Charles de Lint
Spirits in the Wires is part science fiction, part fantasy and all about discovering the true nature of identity. People cast off from childhood, others created out of cyberspace… and creatures of myth and magic.
Lisa Smedman
Extinction is the latest by Lisa Smedman. It’s book four of a six book series, “War of the Spider Queen”, and set in the Forgotten Realms universe,
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
In between us two geeks slobbering all over ourselves, we manage to ask Sir Arthur a few germane questions about his new book, Time’s Eye, written with Stephen Baxter
Robert J. Sawyer
Not only is Rob an award-winning science fiction author, but he’s also a raging Arthur C. Clarke fan just like the two of us! We talk about how influential Sir Arthur has been in this profession, as well
Robert Jordan
Fantasy legend Robert Jordan joins us to speak about his new book in The Wheel of Time series. It’s called New Spring: The Novel and is a prequel to his ground-breaking and required reading series.
Vernor Vinge
Keeping with our promise to bring you the best authors this month, we’ve got three time Hugo award winning author Vernor Vinge. His latest released book (which Evo highly recommends) is The Peace War, which was written years ago but has been re-released.
