After acknowledging that we failed to record a single podcast during the Dublin Worldcon, Jonathan and Gary compare notes about the con and the general wonderfulness of being in Ireland, than discussed perhaps the most debated bit of news emerging from Dublin: the renaming of the John W. Campbell award following the passionate acceptance speech by Jeanette Ng. This raised the issue of whether it’s a good idea to name an award in honour of any past figure in the field, given the shifting historical and literary influences of modern writers, and the problems that might arise concerning such figures.
Then we spent a bit of time talking about a new kind of "new space opera” such as Max Gladstone’s Empress of Forever, and how space opera, like time travel, seems to survive and get reinvented in each new generation of writers.
Finally, we recommend a couple of forthcoming books we’ve both been reading, Alix E. Harrow’s The Ten Thousand Doors of January and Dominic Parisien and Navah Wolfe’s anthology The Mythic Dream.
Episode 440: Ten Minutes with Terry Bisson
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Episode 438: Ten Minutes with Adrienne Martini
Episode 437: Ten Minutes with Karen Lord
Episode 436: Ten Minutes with Simon Ings
Episode 435: Ten Minutes with Claire McKenna (corrected audio)
Episode 435: Ten Minutes with Claire McKenna
Episode 434: Occasionally Enlightening - Three Stars
Episode 433: Ten Minutes with Jack Dann
Episode 432: Ten Minutes with John Berlyne
Episode 431: Ten Minutes with Cat Sparks
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Episode 429: Ten Minutes with Fonda Lee
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Episode 427: Ten Minutes with Lois McMaster Bujold
Episode 426: Ten Minutes with Ann VanderMeer
Episode 425: Ten Minutes with Jeremy Szal
Episode 424: Ten Minutes with Eileen Gunn
Episode 423: Ten Minutes with Theodora Goss
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