We're on a roll! Two episodes in two weeks. Surely it can't last! Gary has been reading Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-winning novel The Testaments and it's sparked off all sorts of thoughts on that old chestnut: science fiction vs. literary fiction. What are literary writers doing when they write SF? Can SF writers cross-over to the mainstream? Is this purely a generational perspective and does it just not matter any more? All these questions are at least touched on, if not settled (they're not settled), as well as mentions of Lethem, Le Guin, Chabon and others, and a brief discussion of robots and AI in SF. They even discuss some very interesting comments on the Atwood novel by Nina Allan over on her blog.
All in all, a typical rambly shambles. As always, we hope you enjoy!
Episode 222: Forthcoming Books with Liza Trombi
Episode 221: Joe Abercrombie and Sean Williams at the Perth Writers Festival
Episode 220: William Gibson, Eileen Gunn, and Chris Brown
Episode 219: On Short Story Collections and such
Episode 218: Harlan Ellison, Bill Schafer and the Volcano
Episode 217: James Morrow, SF, Satire, Religion, and Other Matters
Episode 216: Guy Gavriel Kay and the Legend of the Lost Podcast
Episode 215: On Short Stories, the Possibility of Ruts and other matters
Episode 214: Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Live in DC!
Episode 213: Helen Marshall and Robert Shearman
Episode 212: James Bradley and the Year in Review
Episode 211b: Kij Johnson and Reimagining Genre’s Past
Episode 210: Genevieve Valentine and all the things
Episode 209: The Beginning of the End of 2014
Episode 208: Caitlin R Kiernan, Peter Straub and the literary uses of fantasy
Episode 207: Kameron Hurley and The Mirror Empire
Episode 206: Peter Halasz, Robert J. Sawyer and Canadian SF
Episode 205: Ken Liu and Chinese Science Fiction
Episode 204: Books we're looking forward to, or the shopping list episode
Episode 203: Alisa Krasnostein, Sean Williams and the State of Australian SF
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