Podcast

In the second podcast I recorded at the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, I sat down with Daryl Gregory (Pandemonium, Raising Stony Mayhall, and recent collection Unpossible and Other Stories) and Mark Teppo (Lightbreaker, Heartland). As Daryl is involved with writing comic books and Mark is the creative director of the group that is publishing online serial The Mongoliad, we started out ...Read More

This is the first of the podcasts I was able to record on location at the World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, California. World Fantasy Award-winning Nalo Hopkinson and World Fantasy Award-nominated Karen Lord sit down to talk about Caribbean folklore, H.P. Lovecraft, OCD vampires, and much else. This podcast has two master story-tellers telling stories from the Caribbean, resulting in both shivers and much laughter. I hope you’ll enjoy ...Read More

After a significant hiatus, we’re pleased to bring you this new Locus Roundtable podcast featuring Andy Duncan and Jeffrey Ford. In it we discuss writing non-fiction, style and voice, teaching writing, Mary Sues and Gary Sues, work for hire, and quite a bit more. In an update since the podcast was recorded, we have word that Andy’s collection, Pottawotamie Giant and Other Stories, should be out from PS Publishing ...Read More

Coming to us from last week’s WorldCon in Reno, NV, we were able to sit down and record a conversation with Kathy Goonan, Eileen Gunn, and Gary Wolfe. Of course we talk about the con itself for a bit, and then we use Kathy’s new book, This Shared Dream, as a lens to discuss utopias and dystopias, education, depicting thought vs. action in sf (with shout-outs to Sherlock Holmes ...Read More

Today’s Roundtable podcast ties in with the recent theme of con-going. Locus editor Francesca Myman and author Gail Carriger have between them covered almost every aspect of the con-going experience: going as a fan, as an up-and-comer, a pro, and a dealer. They’ve got recommendations for conventions you may not have heard of, volunteering, con etiquette, and plenty of shout-outs for favorite cons, from the international to the local. And ...Read More

For this episode of the Locus Roundtable podcast, I talk with Karen Lord – recent winner of the Mythopoeic award and World Fantasy Award nominee for her debut novel Redemption in Indigo. She also has a background in physics as well as public policy, giving her a unique perspective on science and literature. We talk (and laugh) about science, science fiction, communication and society, ‘hard’ sciences and ‘soft’ sciences, ...Read More

In this episode of the Locus Roundtable podcast, we feature two of the editorial staff of Shimmer magazine. Two of the stories that are mentioned in the podcast are in the current Issue #13, and “The Squid Story,” or “Four Household Tales,” is available to read in full online. Besides Shimmer specifically, we also talk about what goes into publishing magazines, how to promote at conventions, reading the slush pile, ...Read More

On this week’s podcast we have Brett Cox (Norwich University) and Andy Duncan (Frostburg State University), co-editors of the anthology Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic. They discuss being on awards juries, slush pile reading, stories with crazy energy that can inspire strong reactions (both positive and negative), writers and critics, and being Southern writers.

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This podcast starts out with Jeff and Liz talking about teaching, ideas, and process. Then the conversation strays to genre boundaries, and we ambush Gary to join us. From there we touch on music and jazz, how musical structure relates to narrative structure, and the history of genre boundaries. Your to-read list will grow long and healthy upon listening.

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In this edition of the Locus Roundtable podcast, we talk with Tim Akers and Daryl Gregory. The discussion ranges over genre blending, steampunk, writing process, and how themes enter into stories. They’ve both got books coming out in June: Dead of Veridon for Tim and Raising Stony Mayhall for Daryl.

This week we have a Locus podcast recorded with Brian Evenson (Altmann’s Tongue, The Open Curtain) and Peter Straub (In the Night Room, A Dark Matter). We talk about Conjunctions magazine (specifically Conjunctions 39), genre writing and academia, Kelly Link, H. P. Lovecraft, Gene Wolfe, and much else.

Way back in the midst of March I sat down with Joe Haldeman and Jay Lake at ICFA. They talked about the experience of being ill, and recovering, and what that means for a writer specifically. This is especially poignant as Jay heads back into surgery and chemotherapy.

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To follow on from my recent post on rogue AIs (and to celebrate the lack of missiles being launched by a newly awakened Skynet), I decided to post this podcast that I recorded with Ted Chiang recently. While we start off talking about Greg Egan’s work, we move into a broader discussion of AIs–how they may need to be evolved and grown, and how they are sometimes characters in sf, ...Read More

At ICFA, I was lucky enough to be on the same continent as regular Locus Roundtable contributor, Graham Sleight. We took advantage of the opportunity to sit down and record a podcast without worrying about time zone coordination. We talk about: the classic sf space futures that never were, how the field has changed and evolved, space travel and global warming, and storyable futures. Below are some links from the ...Read More

During the International Conference in the Fantastic in the Arts, I was lucky enough to sit down with these four distinguished writers: Theodora Goss, Eileen Gunn, Cecelia Holland, and Paul Park. We talked about: teaching, role models, the way that teachers can have positive or negative effects on students, writing non-fiction as well as fiction, the way both can open up the world to the reader, how writing advertising copy ...Read More

In this edition of the Locus Roundtable podcast, I sat down with the two author Guests of Honor from this year’s International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts: Terry Bisson and Connie Willis. They sat down to spend some time talking about writing short stories, how they got started in the field, writing in other genres, the Sense of Wonder, Frederic Brown, controlling information, and quite a bit else. ...Read More

Our latest podcast features Cecelia Holland and Ellen Klages, both of whom write historical fiction as well as fantastic fiction. They will also both be at ICFA this week! In the course of this podcast they talk about doing research (Ellen focuses on the 20th century, while Cecelia usually works in more distant times), how our view of history is formed, and different ways of teaching and learning.

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In this Locus podcast, we have Elizabeth Hand calling in from Maine, and Gary K. Wolfe in a not-freezing Chicago. Within the hour they discuss topics such as MFA programs, YA literature and its community, Rimbaud, and places which have a bit more magic to them than others.

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In this Locus podcast, we have Andy Duncan calling in from Frostburg State University in Maryland, and Ellen Klages in San Francisco. Their conversation is wide-ranging and eclectic, including: Moby Dick, doing background research, pleasure reading, genre labels, awards juries, reading to learn how to write, and more. I hope you’ll enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed recording.

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This is the first Locus Roundtable podcast! I was able to sit down with Peter Straub and Gary K. Wolfe online while they discussed topics such as: James Tiptree Jr., Peter’s stories, time travel, and David Foster Wallace. Also, Peter drops some tantalizing hints about where he’s going with his next novel.

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