With Gary just back from ICFA in Florida, he discussed whether this will really be the year of re-emergence, with both the World Science Fiction Convention in Chicago and World Fantasy Convention in New Orleans in the offing. This led, as it does, to discussion of the Hugos, whether small categories with few nominations should be dropped, whether other categories should be added, and whether major historical studies such as Mike Ashley’s five-volume The History of the Science-Fiction Magazines really have a chance of being seen because of availability issues, as compared to the increasingly broad definition of “related work.”
Inevitably, we chatted about new or forthcoming books we’re excited about. We both liked Guy Gavriel Kay’s All the Seas of the World, Alix E. Harrow’s A Mirror Mended, and Christopher Rowe’s These Prisoning Hills, while Jonathan is tempted by Karen Joy Fowler’s new novel Booth and Gary’s about to start Samit Basu’s The City Inside.
Of course, there are lots of digressions in between, including the nature of historical fiction and nostalgia for printed books in the age of e-books (at least for reviewers and critics).
Episode 536: Time for another list
Episode 535: Ten Minutes with Rebecca Roanhorse
Episode 534: Ten Minutes with Sheila Williams
Episode 533: Ten Minutes with Paul Park
Episode 532: Ten Minutes with S. Qiouyi Lu
Episode 531: On reading and re-reading speculative fiction
Episode 530: Ten Minutes with Julie Phillips
Episode 529: Ten Minutes with Ruoxi Chen
Episode 528: Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the Future
Episode 527: Ten Minutes with Madeleine E. Robins
Episode 526: Ten Minutes with Linda Nagata
Episode 525: Ten Minutes with Benjamin Rosenbaum
Episode 524: Ten Minutes with Delia Sherman
Episode 523: Ten Minutes with Mary Anne Mohanraj
Episode 522: Ten Minutes with Andrea Hairston
Episode 521: Ten Minutes with Lisa Goldstein
Episode 520: Ten Minutes with Jeannette Ng
Episode 519: Ten Minutes with Stephanie Feldman
Episode 518: Ten Minutes with Andrea Stewart
Episode 517: Ten Minutes with Jane Routley
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