Episodes
Sunday Jan 29, 2017
Episode 297: Politics and science fiction
Sunday Jan 29, 2017
Sunday Jan 29, 2017
This week we return to the Gershwin Room to discuss what we’ve been reading lately, what we’re anticipating, what do you when you encounter a story by an idol or a good friend which isn’t quite up to standard, and what the state of political science fiction is, with both Orwell’s 1984 and Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here returning to the U.S. bestseller lists for the first time in decades. We also discuss political action within the science fiction field towards the end of the podcast, and touch on Norman Spinrad's new novel.
As always, we hope you enjoy the episode.
Saturday Jan 21, 2017
Episode 296: A Return to Normal Programming
Saturday Jan 21, 2017
Saturday Jan 21, 2017
It's a brand new day. A dark, scary depressing day, maybe, but a brand new one. With the 45th president of the United States of America sworn in, Gary and Jonathan turned their attention to more typical things in the first rambling chat of the year.
This week they start by chatting about recent trends in science fiction, most notably science fiction influenced by man-made climate change like Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and Cat Sparks' Lotus Blue, before talking at length about the upcoming World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki, nominating for the Hugo awards (with some nomination suggestions), and finishing up talking about the recently released ballot for the Philip K. Dick Award.
As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast. And if you do, please consider mentioning it to a friend!
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Episode 295a: Ellen Klages reads from Passing Strange
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
As promised, the wonderful Ellen Klages reads from her forthcoming book Passing Strange. The short reading starts about halfway into a story about two women living in San Francisco in 1940 and what happens to them. Our sincere thanks to Ellen for taking the time to record the reading. Passing Strange is due out on January 24.
© 2017 Ellen Klages. All rights reserved.
Sunday Jan 15, 2017
Episode 295: Ellen Klages and Passing Strange
Sunday Jan 15, 2017
Sunday Jan 15, 2017
And we're back! The bar has been re-stocked, the carpets have been steam cleaned, and we're ready to go. For the first podcast of 2017, long time friend of the podcast Ellen Klages joins us to discuss her wonderful new book, Passing Strange.
Described by the publisher like this:
San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World’s Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer “authentic” experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet.
Six women find their lives as tangled with each other’s as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect.
Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages.
Passing Strange is due out January 24, but you can pre-order it now.
As always, we'd like to thank Ellen Klages for joining us and hope you enjoy the episode. We should be back next week with new episode, and regularly through till Worldcon in August.
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