The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 7: Escape Pod! Those Voices You Hear! Unabridged!
Steve Eley—editor of Escape Pod, the internet’s most popular science fiction podcast—stops by this week and we discuss the very promising future of audio fiction.
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Locus Magazine recently issued its annual recommended reading list, which features some of my work:
The annual Locus Awards poll is also now open for voting. If you want to vote for any of my work, you can select any of the stories and anthologies above from the drop-down menus, or can write in any other original story from those anthologies, or vote for By Blood We Live, as well. I’m also an option in the drop-down menu for “Best Editor.”
You can check out my Hugo Awards post to see a list of stories from those anthologies that are eligible for both the Hugos and the Locus Awards.
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This week we talk to the delightful Marjorie M. Liu, writer of Marvel Comics’ Dark Wolverine and NYX and author of the novels in the Dirk and Steele and Hunter Kiss series. She tells us about attending Clarion and writing for Marvel, and Dave and John discuss comics, then and now.
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast Episode 4: Superheroes! Romance! Sea Monsters!
On this week’s episode of The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, we interview P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War about the subject of robots in the military and the intersection between video games and war. Also, Dave and I consider some of the science fiction works that influenced the development of robots as we know them.
The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 3: Robots! War Machines! Robolobsters!
You don’t want to miss this week’s interview with Paolo Bacigalupi, author of the critically-acclaimed The Windup Girl, which was named one of Time Magazine’s top ten novels of the year. Paolo talks to us about global warming, the horrors of travel, the current state of literature for boys, and his own forthcoming YA novel, Ship Breaker. John and Dave discuss their own experiences with literature when they were growing up, and how they became science fiction fans.
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, episode 2: Bacigalupilooza!
I was a guest on the HOUR OF THE WOLF radio show this morning, during which I discussed Lightspeed, The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, Sherlock Holmes, and other topics. If you missed it, or if you just loved it so much you want to listen to it again, you can do via the show’s web site. The show features Brilliance Audio’s production of “Dynamics of a Hanging” by Tony Pi (read by Simon Vance), which comes from the forthcoming unabridged audiobook version of the anthology.
The Grasping for the Wind review blog just issued its bests-of-the-year list, which includes my anthology Federations as “Best Anthology” of the year.
I’m proud to announce the launch of THE GEEK’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY a non-fiction talk show podcast focusing on all things geeky.
Geeks have always loved what’s smart and fun – from fantasy literature, video games, and graphic novels, to science, technology, and gadgets. It’s never been a better time to be a geek, with Lord of the Rings sweeping the Oscars, iPods and iPhones in every pocket, and tales of wizards, vampires, and zombies dominating the bestseller lists. And now being a geek is about to get even better, with the launch of THE GEEK’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY podcast, the indispensable news and talk show for geeks everywhere.
Hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley are two geeks who also happen to be rising young stars in the world of publishing. John, the editor of the bestselling anthologies WASTELANDS and THE LIVING DEAD and the new science fiction magazine LIGHTSPEED, has been called “the reigning king of the anthology world” and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award. David, who has been named “one of the newest and freshest voices in sf,” has published fiction in books such as FANTASY: THE BEST OF THE YEAR and NEW VOICES IN SCIENCE FICTION.
So if you’re a geek, be sure to join Dave and John each week for the smartest, funniest, and geekiest new show in the galaxy.
Each show will feature an interview with a geek celebrity from the world of publishing, movies, tv, video games…or any other geek worth talking to! In addition to the featured interview, hosts Dave and John
will discuss the various geeky topics brought up in the interview in further detail.
For more information about the show, or to subscribe to the podcast feed, visit http://tinyurl.com/geeksguidetothegalaxy
In our premier episode for Tor.com, your hosts John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley take on zombies and the apocalypse in video games, popular culture, and literature. They discuss Valve Software‘s history of story-focused video games and interview Chet Faliszek, lead writer for Left 4 Dead 2, then discuss their own strategies for surviving the coming zombie apocalypse, and give their opinions of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
