Jun 112011
With Gary home from his ICFA board meeting in Florida and Wiscon, we sat down to discuss cyberpunk, the ‘movement and radical hard SF, Gavin Grant & Kelly Link’s Steampunk!, first novels and a few other things. No awards were mentioned in the recording of this podcast.
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This episode should win an award.
Nice of you to loan your logo out to Glen Cook for his ‘A Matter of Time’ cover: http://www.amazon.com/Matter-Time-Glen-Cook/dp/1597802794
I strongly recommend giving The Difference Engine a re-read. Like yourselves, I found it hard work when it came out a couple of decades ago but I thoroughly enjoyed it on my second try when I was trying to get a handle on Steampunk for a review.
Dylan Horrocks is a New Zealand comics writer/artist most famous for “Hicksville”, a weird but excellent graphic novel about a small town on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island where everyone is a comics afficianado.
I hadn’t been aware until the podcast of his prose work. You can view some of his most recent webcomics at the site mentioned above.
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