This week Gary returns from the wilds of Virginia or Washington DC or somewhere or other on the US Eastern seaboard. We discuss his experience writing and performing a series of lectures on science fiction; the strengths and weaknesses of Ridley Scott’s The Martian; compiling Gary’s Library of America volumes, and whether or not we kid ourselves on whether a work really is canonical.Â
All of that and a little bit more. As always, we hope you enjoy the episode. We should be back next week with a new episode, as we begin our run down to World Fantasy and the end of the year.
RE: artistic licence in ‘The Martian’
The thing that distracted me – a bit – while watching the film was the Earthlike gravity. But the colour of the Martian sunsets was no mistake. Those really ARE blue.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4581