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.
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Episode 416: Ten Minutes with Brian Evenson
Episode 415: Ten Minutes with Rick Wilber
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Episode 412: Ten Minutes with Michael Swanwick
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Episode 410: Ten Minutes with Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
Episode 409: Ten Minutes with Kelly Barnhill
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Episode 407: Thirty Minutes with Nnedi Okorafor
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Episode 405: Ten Minutes with James Patrick Kelly
Episode 404: Ten Minutes with Nalo Hopkinson
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