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 Naomi Novik joins us for the season 4 finale of Invaders From Planet 3!
Naomi tells us how her love of fantasy and science fiction was born when her mother read Polish fairy tales to her, such as Agnieszka "Piece of the Sky". At the same time, her parents were reading the Disney picture book version of Peter Pan to her, along with Tolkien's The Hobbit, and other works. She tells us how the Polish stories helped create a bond between her and her mother's past, and how her love of Disney's version of Peter Pan got her started down the road to creating her own stories... or, at least commissioning them at that point.
We also talk about the evolution of Naomi's relationship with fan fiction, from reading it in university, to her early days as a writer when she began creating it, to her eventual decision that it was too constraining for a story she wanted to tell: the story of Lawrence and the dragon Temeraire in her breakout Temeraire series of novels. And she talks about how, even after building a career around her own unique stories, she still enjoys writing fanfic.
Naomi also tells us about feeling liberated when the Temeraire series came to an end. And she discusses the importance of having control over a story's ending, right from the start.
Our conversation took place in the impromptu studio of bloginhood in the Dublin convention centre last summer at Worldcon.
To learn more about Naomi and her stories, visit her website:
www.naominovik.com
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