{"id":6706,"date":"2022-07-17T12:44:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T04:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=6706"},"modified":"2022-07-17T12:44:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T04:44:43","slug":"episode-583-john-kessel-and-a-life-in-science-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2022\/07\/17\/episode-583-john-kessel-and-a-life-in-science-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 583: John Kessel and a Life in Science Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/subterraneanpress.com\/dark-ride\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mcdn.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/xzysra\/darkride.jpeg\" alt=\"darkride.jpeg\" width=\"150\" height=\"221\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"20\" \/><\/a>This week we\u2019re joined by the distinguished, multiple award-winning John Kessel, whose collection <a href=\"https:\/\/subterraneanpress.com\/dark-ride\"><em>The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel<\/em><\/a> is recently out from Subterranean Press, representing John\u2019s four-decade career as an SF writer, teacher, editor, scholar, and workshop leader. We touch upon not only his short fiction, but novels like <em>The Moon and the Other<\/em> and <em>Pride and Prometheus<\/em>, his early studies under James Gunn, his thematic anthologies co-edited with James Patrick Kelly, and what really happened in SF during the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we&#8217;d like to thank John for taking the time to talk to us and hope you&#8217;ll enjoy the episode.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" title=\"Episode 583: John Kessel and a Life in Science Fiction\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=qridg-1275819-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we\u2019re joined by the distinguished, multiple award-winning John Kessel, whose collection The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel is recently out from Subterranean Press, representing John\u2019s four-decade career as an SF writer, teacher, editor, scholar, and workshop leader. We touch upon not only his short fiction, but novels like The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2022\/07\/17\/episode-583-john-kessel-and-a-life-in-science-fiction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode 583: John Kessel and a Life in Science Fiction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}