Reader's Room : Announcement
Steven Hoefer's PlanetShine
It has a been a long minute since that last episode, but there's a good reason! The name is changing, though the content will stay the same. I talk briefly about what's going on and offer some good reading until the full episodes of next season arrive.
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Reader's Room: Hidden Structures
Steven Hoefer's PlanetShine
Reader's Room pulls the most fascinating writing from speculative fiction, science, and technology. In this edition we look at how two stories can simultaneously be strikingly similar and completely different. We also have a roundup of interesting science and technology, N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth books, and Rosemary Kirstein The Steerswoman series.
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Reader's Room: Between The Tradewinds
Steven Hoefer's PlanetShine
Reader's Room pulls the most fascinating writing from speculative fiction, science, and technology. In this edition we talk about what happens when the wind goes out of your sails, speculative fiction from Fireside, the optimistic present from Future Crunch, and long-term thinking from The Long Now foundation. And we talk about my difficulty with naming things.
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Reader's Room: Fortune’s Furious Fickle Wheel
Steven Hoefer's PlanetShine
Reader's Room pulls the most fascinating writing from speculative fiction, science, and technology. In this edition we talk about coming to terms with things, including glitter, Shakespere, and loss.
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Reader's Room: The Benefit Of Experience
Steven Hoefer's PlanetShine
Reader's Room pulls the most fascinating writing from speculative fiction, science, and technology. In this edition we talk about experience on a Japanese leisure island, the unhelpfulness of book blurbs, and Nick Harkaway’s The Gone Away World. Plus the usual science and technology links and updates from the writer's world.
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Reader's Room: Fatal Words
Steven Hoefer's PlanetShine
Reader's Room covers the month's speculative fiction, science and technology. In this edition we talk about how to grow literature in the desert, the very real ways words can threaten life, Kawamata Chiaki’s novel Death Sentences, and the Surrealist movement.
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Reader's Room: Turning The Corner
Steven Hoefer's PlanetShine
Reader's Room covers the month's speculative fiction, science and technology. In this edition we talk about autonomous vehicles, and how they're still a nuisance on the road if they can't effectively communicate with the humans around them. We also talk about what causes car crashes in professional races, using AI to keep people and sharks safe from each other, and Karin Tidbeck’s powerful short story collection, Jagannath.
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Reader's Room: Extending Yourself
Steven Hoefer's PlanetShine
The Reader's Room talks about speculative fiction, science, and technology. This month, we ask what kinds of changes you might make to your body to improve your work, or better reflect your beliefs.
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Reader's Room: When One Thing Changes
Steven Hoefer's PlanetShine
This month we talk about the possibilities of making a single change in reality, and I get caught up on Charles Stross's Laundry Files novels.
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Reader's Room: Building Worlds
Steven Hoefer's PlanetShine
Reader's Room ponders the best speculative fiction and and science for the month. This edition we look at how and why authors create specilatve worlds, and their impact on storytelling. Show links: We talk about Andy Weir's latest book, . If you have an hour, Weir did an interview about the process of creating Artemis on . (Both audio and transcript.) If you only have five minutes, he also did an interview on . (Audio and text excerpts.) Charlie Jane Anders wrote the excellent, , on her site, io9. It’s a few years old, but it all remains true. A good read for writers, but it'll...
info_outlineNo essay this month. Instead, I share a new piece of short fiction that does better than the essay ever did. It explores the legal idea of personhood and what possibilities are unlocked when we apply it a little more broadly.
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