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 204: Books we're looking forward to, or the shopping list episode
Episode 203: Alisa Krasnostein, Sean Williams and the State of Australian SF
Episode 202: Nina Allan, Paul Kincaid and the State of British Science Fiction
Episode 201: Moving on...
Episode 200: Robinson, Silverberg, Walton and Loncon!
Episode 199: Loncon, Hugos and the future of SF
Episode 198: John Clute, science fiction and Loncon
Episode 197: Readercon, the World Fantasy Awards and more
Episode 196: Bill Shafer and Subterranean Press
Episode 195: Joe Monti and Saga Press
Episode 194: Daniel Keyes and Questions from the audience
Episode 193: Academic Exercises, genre and pants
Episode 192: Anne Leckie, gender and Ancillary Justice
Episode 191: Jeff VanderMeer and the Southern Reach
Episode 190: James Bradley, science fiction, awards and more
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
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