Ep 54 - Kelly Robson's Top 10
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Author Kelly Robson joins us for the final episode of the special bonus season of Invaders From Planet 3! Kelly shares her list of her Top 10 favourite works of science fiction by other writers.
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Ep 53 - Joe Haldeman's Favourites
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Author Joe Haldeman returns to the show in this bonus mini episode to share his thoughts on some of his favourite works of sf, with a special emphasis on comics.
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Ep 52 - Sebastien de Castell's Top 5
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Author Sebastien de Castell returns to the show as we count down towards the end of our special bonus season. In this episode, Sebastien shares his Top 5 list of some of his favourite speculative fiction stories by other writers.
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Ep 51 - Kristi Charish's Top 5
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Author Kristi Charish returns to the show to share her list of her Top 5 favourite speculative fiction movies.
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Ep 50 - Robert Charles Wilson's Top 5
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The bonus season continues with author Robert Charles Wilson. In this previously-unaired mini interview, Bob shares his list of his Top 5 favourite works of speculative fiction.
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Ep 49 - Minister Faust's Top 5
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Author Minister Faust returns to the show. This time, he's sharing his list of his Top 5 favourite works of speculative fiction by other writers.
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Ep 48 - Alyx Dellamonica's Top 5
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Author Alyx Dellamonica returns for the show's bonus season to share her list of her Top 5 favourite works of speculative fiction by other writers. And she throws in some bonus recommendations, including a book to help aspiring writers.
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Ep 47 - David Nickle's Top 5
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Author David Nickle returns to the show for its bonus season. In this previously-unaired mini interview, he shares a Top 5 list of noteworthy speculative fiction stories.
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Ep 46 - Matt Ruff's Top 5
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Author Matt Ruff joins us in this previously-unaired mini interview as the bonus season of the show continues! Matt shares his list of his Top 5 favourite works of speculative fiction by other writers.
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Ep 45 - Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Top 5
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Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia joins us for this mini-episode of the Invaders From Planet 3 bonus season. She shares her list of her Top 5 favourite works of speculative fiction by other writers.
info_outlineAuthor, editor and kung-fu mathematician James Alan Gardner joins us in the latest episode of the podcast! Jim starts off by talking about how comics were his first speculative fictional love, especially Marvel's The Avengers and DC's Crisis on Earth One! and Crisis on Earth Two!, leading eventually to science fiction like Heinlein's juveniles, and later, in university, to fantasy by Tolkien and Stephen R Donaldson, and horror by Stephen King.
We talk about his decision to study Math at university, and how a student work internship in Toronto with nothing to do at night gave him the opportunity to start developing his abilities as a writer. Jim tells us about how a writing workshop in Banff allowed him to further hone his skills and find his own voice, and we later discuss how this differed from his experience at Clarion. We also talk about Jim's early work writing science fictional stage plays and radio plays, like Curio (a paranormal investigative series predating The X-Files) and Percy Pulsar, Space Accountant. And he discusses his first prose science fiction stories that were published.
Coming back to superheroes, we talk about Jim's novel All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault — a story pitting metahumans against vampires, werewolves and other paranormal monsters. And he teases its upcoming sequel, They Promised Me the Gun Wasn't Loaded, and the two other novels he's working on in the series. Jim also gives some hints about a haunted house novel he's developing.
Our interview took place in October 2018 at the annual Vancouver Science Fiction, Fantasy & Games Convention (VCon).
Find out more about James Alan Gardner and his stories on his website:
https://jamesalangardner.wordpress.com
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