With Swancon 40, the 2015 Australian National Science Fiction Convention, in full swing Jonathan sat down with convention guest of honour John Scalzi and Twelfth Planet Press editor/publisher Alisa Krasnostein to discuss science fiction, community, Robert Heinlein, having just finished new novel The End of All Things and more!
As always, we’d like to thank John and Alisa for appearing on the podcast. John’s next novel, The End of All Things, is out for preorder and you can support the Pozible campaign for Alisa’s new project Defying Doomsday here.
My friend Alisa Krasnostein has a new crowdfunding campaign going for Defying Doomsday, an anthology to be published by her 12th Planet Press. Given the quality of her books, I think it’s worth supporting and worth checking out!
This week Gary* is joined by award-winning author Ken Liu and Joe Monti, Executive Editor at Saga Press, to discuss Ken’s exciting debut novel The Grace of Kings, his forthcoming collection The Paper Menagerie, and much more.
As always we’d like to thank Ken and Joe for making the time to talk to us. And we hope you enjoy the podcast!
This weekend we talk to Silvia Moreno-Garcia about her debut fantasy novel, Signal to Noise. Described by Locus as ‘one of the most important fantasy debuts of the year, it’s an engaging and compelling story of a woman returning to her family home in Mexico for her father’s funeral, and of a time in her teens when she discovered that the right music played just the right way could change the world. It may be that we grew up at the right time, it may be that Meche’s past overlapped ours in just the right way, but we loved this gentle, moving book quite a bit.
If you have any interest in fantasy and music, then we think Signal to Noise is for you. It’s the best genre book about music that we’ve read since Lewis Shiner’s Glimpses.
Silvia was a terrific guest and our conversation talks about the book in an interesting way that really complements reading the book. Consider picking up a copy of Silvia’s book. It’s Coode Street Recommended.
The team at Solaris have revealed the fabulous cover for Meeting Infinity, the fourth volume of the Infinity Project. Since it lists all of the contributors for the book, I thought I’d add to the fun by doing a full release of the table of contents for the book. Â I really like this book, and think it’s the best ‘Infinity’ so far.
Look into the future and see what you might become….
Dark age barbarian princesses, Mexican ninja zombie soldiers, icy interrogators of networked intellects, searchers for eternal youth, warrior families hiding in the corners of a future haunted by machines bent on our destruction, and distant deepspace protectors of humanity’s future.
Whether it’s the day after tomorrow or a million years into the deep future, there are moments when humanity stares into the abyss and faced with possibility extinction follow Darwin’s theory – change, adapt, alter, evolve. Take on a different body, engineer a new intellect, become something completely different to preserve whatever is most human about us.
Meeting Infinity, the fourth book of the Infinity Project, presents  exciting new stories from sixteen award winners and acclaimed writersÂ
Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
“Memento Moriâ€, Madeline Ashby
“My Last Bringbackâ€, John Barnes
“Aspects: A Galactic Centre Storyâ€, Gregory Benford
“Rates of Changeâ€, James S.A. Corey
“In Blue Lily’s Wakeâ€, Aliette de Bodard
“Body Politicâ€, Kameron Hurley
“Dronesâ€, Simon Ings
“Emergenceâ€, Gwyneth Jones
“Cocoonsâ€, Nancy Kress
“The Cold Inequalitiesâ€, Yoon Ha Lee
“The Falls: A Luna Storyâ€, Ian McDonald
“Exile from Extinctionâ€, Ramez Naam
“Outsiderâ€, An Owomoyela
“Desert Lexiconâ€, Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Pictures from the Resurrectionâ€, Bruce Sterling
“All the Wrong Placesâ€, Sean Williams
Meeting Infinity will be in-store December 2015. Get ready to pre-order it. Plans are also underway for Infinity 5!
This week Gary* is joined by award-winning author Ken Liu and Joe Monti, Executive Editor at Saga Press, to discuss Ken’s exciting debut novel