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 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
Episode 169: Live with Paul McAuley
Episode 168: Terminology, hard SF and other inexactiudes
Episode 167: On Hild, History, Genre and WFC
Episode 166: From the far side of jet lag (REUPLOAD)
Episode 166: From the far side of jet lag
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