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 382: Ten Minutes with Alex Irvine
Episode 381: Ten Minutes with Tamsyn Muir
Episode 380: Ten Minutes with Andy Duncan
Episode 379: Ten Minutes with Ellen Klages
Episode 378: Ten Minutes with Garth Nix
Episode 377: Books in the Time of Coronavirus
Episode 376: Ten Minutes with Naomi Kritzer
Episode 375: Ten Minutes with Jeffrey Ford
Episode 374: Ten Minutes with Tochi Onyebuchi
Episode 373: Ten Minutes with Alix E. Harrow
Episode 372: Ten Minutes with James Bradley
Episode 371: Ten Minutes with Nisi Shawl
Episode 370: Ten Minutes with Ian Mond
Episode 369: Ten Minutes with Sarah Pinsker
Episode 368: NK Jemisin and The City We Became
Episode 367: Ken Liu and the Power of Good Story
Episode 366: Apocalypse, awards, and others
Episode 365: On talking about SF (or chatting under the influence)
Episode 364: On being a fan
Episode 363: Books We're Looking Forward to in 2020
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