For this episode, Jonathan and Gary are joined by the distinguished novelist, editor, and scholar Jack Dann, whose new The Fiction Writer’s Guide to Alternate History: A Handbook on Craft, Art, and History has just been published by Bloomsbury Academic.
Jack discusses definitions of alternate history (as opposed to secret history or parallel universes), his own work in developing his da Vinci novel The Memory Cathedral and his more recent Shadows in the Stone, the responsibilities of the alternate history writer, some key writers and texts, and some recent trends in alternate history fiction.
Episode 189: Joe Abercrombie, Half a King and dark fantasy
Episode 188: Mary Rickert and The Memory Garden
Episode 187: On the perception of SF today and some rambling
Episode 186: Hugo Awards 2014 with John DeNardo and Tansy Rayner Roberts repost
Episode 185: Heinlein, Awards and such
Episode 184: Nnedi Okorafor and Lagoon
Episode 183: On nominating for the Hugos and Lucius Shepard
Episode 182: Steven Erikson and Ian McDonald
Episode 181: Eileen Gunn, questionable practices and the purposes of science fiction
Episode 180: Kelley Eskridge, Nicola Griffith, Hild, historicity and genre...
Episode 179: James Bradley, Garth Nix, Sean Williams and Australian SF
Episode 178: On importance and important science fiction
Episode 177: Kij Johnson, science fiction and the Booker Prize
Episode 176: Liza Groen Trombi and the Locus Recommended Reading List.
Episode 175: We return and talk about new books in 2014
Episode 174: Rachel Swirsky Redux
Episode 173: Ellen Datlow Redux
Episode 172: Robert Shearman and Howard Waldrop Redux
Episode 171: Graham Joyce redux
Episode 170: Live with Neil Gaiman
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