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Science Fiction/Fantasy Interviews

Science Fiction/Fantasy Interviews

Bookninja interviews Guy Gavriel Kay, author of Ysabel. Then they flip out and kill a whole lot of people, ‘cause that’s what ninjas have to do. [via Locus Online]

Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing’s twenty-fifth podcast features an interview with author Walter H. Hunt, plus publishing news and the first installment of “Ask a Writer,” with Tobias S. Buckell.

SciFi Wire talks to Michael Swanwick about his story “Lord Weary’s Empire,” currently a finalist for both the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Hugo Award.

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Science Fiction/Fantasy Podcasts

Science Fiction/Fantasy Podcasts

The new episode of The Future And You went up for the beginning of the month; it includes conversations with Battlestar Galactica cast member Bodie Olmos, Walt (The Bananaslug) Boyes from Jim Baen’s Universe magazine, and the authors Robert Buettner, Mike Resnick, Randal L. Schwartz and Stoney Compton. How can you not want to hear what a man named “Bananaslug” has to say?

Episode # 40 of The Sci Phi Show is an introduction to the books and stories of Greg Egan.

The Odyssey Fantasy Workshop has just posted a new podcast, featuring Terry Bisson talking about setting. [via Locus Online]

Science Fiction/Fantasy News & Links

Science Fiction/Fantasy News & Links

Variety reports that Robert E. Howard’s most famous sword-swinger, Conan the Barbarian, may be coming back to the screen via New Line Pictures, mere weeks after Warner Brothers lost the rights to the Cimmerian. [report – but not link – originally from SciFi Wire]

Warming us all up for the publication off Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in less than a month, the Californian provides a short history of the boy wizard, with lots of learned quotes.

Time Magazine, also on the Harry Potter beat, talks to the “brain trust” at Scholastic – J.K. Rowling’s US publisher – about all of the security measures in place to keep the events of Deathly Hallows secret.

Onelowerlight has thrown down the gauntlet: Serenity is “not good SF” because it has too much sex and is “preachy” about things that blogger does not agree with. The sound you hear is a million browncoats screaming in unison… [via SF Signal]

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Science Fiction/Fantasy Interviews, June 28th

Science Fiction/Fantasy Interviews, June 28th

Fantasy Book Critic interviews Austin Grossman, author of the swell new superhero novel Soon I Will Be Invincible.

Locus Online has posted excerpts from their interview with Nalo Hopkinson, author of The New Moon’s Arms, from the June issue of the print magazine.

Locus Online has similarly posted excerpts from the interview with Holly Phillips, also from the June issue.

CNN recently talked to Michael Chabon about his new alternate history novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, in which the Jewish homeland formed after WW II was in the Alaska panhandle.

SciFi Wire chats with Tim Pratt, author of the Asimov’s Readers’ Award-winning (and Hugo Award nominated) story “Impossible Dreams.”

Stage Noise has a podcast-interview with SF novelist Sean Williams and then (separately) with Jeff Wayne, creator of a War of the Worlds musical. [via Talking Squid]

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