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!
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Episode 160: Live with Paolo Bacigalupi
Episode 159: Live with Kij Johnson and John Kessel
Episode 158: Live with Malcolm Edwards and David G. Hartwell
Episode 157: Live with Ellen Datlow
Episode 156: Live with Sofia Samatar
Episode 155: Live with Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages
Episode 154: Live with James Bradley
Episode 153: On Sharknado, politics, and international SF
Episode 152: The discussion continues
Episode 151: Live with Robert Shearman and Howard Waldrop
Episode 150: Live with John Crowley and Peter Straub!
Episode 149: Awards, Matheson and the Year to Date
Episode 148: Playing for time
Episode 147: Live with M. John Harrison!
Episode 146: Live with E. Lily Yu!
Episode 145: Live with Christopher Barzak and Mary Rickert
Episode 144: On bookstores and lifetime achievement
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