Joe Abercrombie is the author of an trilogy of epic fantasy novels based around the misadventures of the thinking man’s barbarian, Logen Ninefingers. Joe was nominated for the Campbell Award for the best new writer in science fiction and fantasy.
We spoke about his family editorial help, role-playing games, violence, bad reviews, and Google.
This is the second interview of the other Campbell Nominees. I say other because I am also a nominee.
Mary Robinette Kowal is a professional puppeteer who does more than just moonlight as a writer. This year she had been nominated for the John W. Campbell Best New Writer Award.
Mary has performed for LazyTown (CBS), the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures and founded Other Hand Productions. Her design work has garnered two UNIMA-USA Citations of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve.
Mrs. Kowal’s short fiction appears in Strange Horizons, Apex Digest and All-Star Stories: Presents Twenty Epics. She is the art director of Shimmer and a graduate of Orson Scott Card’s Literary BootCamp.
This podcast is the first in a series of Campbell Nominees.
Follow this link to Mary Robinette Kowal’s website.
A link straight to her FREE fiction!
And finally: The John W. Campbell Award Explained.
Music for the show by The Loungebots and Frank Molder.
Russ Armstrong (my dad) was in the Vietnam War and played jazz at a club in Saigon. In this interview we talk about his time in the war and the weekends he spent playing at a club called The Dai Nam.
Brian Dunning is the host of the very popular Skeptoid podcast, a weekly show dedicated to furthering knowledge by blasting away the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture.
We talk about the detoxification myth, SUVs, and super juice among other popular topics.
Visit and subscribe to Skeptoid.
And check out the Skeptoid Book. As Brian says, it’s great bathroom reading.
Scott Nelson teaches history at William and Mary. His award-winning book Steel Drivin’ Man (published 2006) explores the legend and reality of railway hero John Henry. In 2007 he published Ain’t Nothing But A Man, which is based on Steel Drivin’ Man but for children.
For more information about Scott, see his website at The College of William and Mary.
Tim Pratt is the author is a science fiction and fantasy writer and poet whose story “Hart & Boot” was included in the collection Best American Short Stories: 2005. His novels include: The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, Blood Engines, and Poison Sleep.
Tim’s story “Impossible Dreams” at Escape Pod.
Link to Tim Pratt’s Website.
Please note: There are a few adult words toward the end of the show. When I first posted this, the EscapePod show got into the feed. Hopefully this repost will fix that.
Minister Faust is the author of two satiric science fiction novels, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad and From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain. The later won the Special Citation at this year’s Philip K. Dick Awards. He is also a teacher, radio host, community activist, and political aspirant. We spoke about his names, his work, super heroes, reality television, and more. Minister Fausts’s Original Bro-log Blog. Photo by Fish Griwkowsky
Interview with Minister Faust author of From The Notebooks of Dr. Brain [24:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Jeremy Lassen is the chief editor and part owner of Night Shade Books. If you’ve attended a science fiction convention and glanced a man in a long dark pin-striped suit, a bright red shirt, a fedora, and a two-foot long feather that was Jeremy.
In this week’s show he talks about how
he came to wear his suits and what they mean to him.
Photo credit: Midamericon.org
For other suits see: Suit Gallery.
Jeremy Lassen: Editor, Publisher and Zoot Suit Aficionado [13:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Jeremy Lassen: Editor, Publisher and Zoot Suit Aficionado [13:46m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Joahua Klein describes himself as practiced and trained, both formally and informally, in hacking - social systems, computer networks, institutions, consumer hardware, animal behavior, and, most recently, the publishing industry. The goal of his Vending Machine for Crows is to create a device that will autonomously train crows to find lost coins. Find out how and why.
A Vending Machine for Crows - An Interview with Joahua Klein [20:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
A Vending Machine for Crows - An Interview with Joahua Klein [20:19m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Anthony Newman, an active harpsichordist, fortepianist, conductor, composer, writer and recording artist, is one of the world’s premier baroque interpreters. He has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Kathleen Battle, Itzhak Perlman, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Leonard Bernstein and Wynton Marsalis.
The New York Times stated, “He has the virtuoso command of fingerwork to achieve brilliant distinctness at high speed. His flair for theatrical, propulsive rhythms is exciting.”
Click here to purchase music from Anthony Newman’s site.
