Salon Futura

The podcast element of Salon Futura magazine, featuring The Salon, in which Cheryl Morgan invites well known figures from the science fiction and fantasy publishing industry to discuss topical issues.

Interview with Helen L Brady 12/01/2024

Interview with Helen L Brady Cheryl talks to Helen L Brady, one of the newer additions to the Wizard's Tower stable. Helen talks about her career in screenwriting, why she has turned to novels instead, and her background in theatre and historical re-enactment. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/34219585

Interview with Juliet E McKenna 10/30/2024

Interview with Juliet E McKenna A new Green Man book is always a major event these days. As the launch at BristolCon was going to be quite busy, with Fight Like A Girl 2 being showcased as well, Juliet sat down over Zoom to chat with Cheryl about The Green Man's War. Along they way they talk about possible future plans for the series. And, rather unusually, Juliet explains where she got (one of) her ideas from. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/33694767

Interview with Lyda Morehouse 09/30/2024

Interview with Lyda Morehouse Cheryl talks to Lyda Morehouse about the new edition of the final AngeLINK book, Resurrection Code. Along the way they discuss how the ability to get mainstream publishers to accept queer content has changed over the years. There is also discussion of how Lyda's new book, Welcome to Boy.net, relates to the AngeLINK universe. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/33265092

Interview - Maria Gerolemou 05/30/2020

Interview - Maria Gerolemou Dr. Maria Gerolemou is a Classicist based at the University of Exeter. One of her interests is in ancient automota. Here she talskto Cheryl about their joint fascination with the early origins of robots. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/14630840

Interview - Anne Corlett & Kevlin Henney 04/28/2020

Interview - Anne Corlett & Kevlin Henney Cheryl talks to Anne Corlett and Kevlin Henney about the new, online convention, WiFi SciFi. How did it come to be? Has it worked for audiences? What problems have theyfound with online conferencing software? /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/14182325

Interview - Tate Hallaway 04/28/2020

Interview - Tate Hallaway In this interview Cheryl talks to Tate Hallaway, the mysterious, night-dwelling alter-ego of mild-mannered novelist, Lyda Morehouse. The conversation touches on Lyda's AngeLINK novels, Tate's work, and of course the newly released Unjust Cause. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/14182265

Interview - Juliet E. McKenna 03/30/2020

Interview - Juliet E. McKenna In this interview Cheryl talks to Juliet E. McKenna about the re-issue of her Tales of Einarinn series, back in print for the first time in years. Other topics discussed include free fiction for lockdown reading, book three in the Green Man series, and a potential River Kingdom novel. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/13767257

Interview - Kate Macdonald 12/29/2019

Interview - Kate Macdonald Kate Macdonald is the founder of , an innovative British small press specialising in recovering forgotten works by women writers. In this interview, first broadcast on Chery's Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio, Kate talks about why she founded the company and some of her more successful projects. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/12554207

Interview - Rivers Solomon 11/29/2019

Interview - Rivers Solomon This interview was originally broadcast on the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio in August 2018. It mainly concerns the novella, The Deep, based on the clipping song of the same name. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/12222017

Ellen Datlow Interview 10/28/2019

Ellen Datlow Interview Ellen Datlow is a multi-award winning editor and is generally regarded as the top editor in horror short fiction. This interview was recorded at the 2019 Eurocon, TitanCon, in Belfast. Cheryl talks to Ellen about a range of topics including how she got her start in the business, how the industry has changed since she started, what "best of the year" anthologies mean, and who is the only horror writer ever to have scared her. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/11808665

Heather Child Interview 09/28/2019

Heather Child Interview This is an interview that Cheryl did with author Heather Child on the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio. The Undoing of Arlo Knott is Heather's second novel, following the successful . /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/11430725

Anne Corlett Interview 09/28/2019

Anne Corlett Interview This is an interview that Cheryl did on her radio show back in September 2018. She talks to Anne Corlett about Anne's debut novel, The Space Between the Stars. The conversation covers the journey to getting published, reproductive rights, and disability rights. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/11430671

Regina Wang Interview 08/12/2019

Regina Wang Interview This is an interview that Cheryl did with Chinese science fiction advocate, Regina Wang, while they were at Åcon X in Mariehamn earlier this year. Here are some links to things mentioned in the interview: /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/10864293

Remembering Diana Wynne Jones 08/06/2019

Remembering Diana Wynne Jones This interview with Farah Mendlesohn & Cathy Butler was recorded at BristolCon in 2018. We are releasing it now because the is taking place this coming weekend (August 9-11, 2019) /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/10792907

Amal El-Mohtar Interview 07/22/2019

Amal El-Mohtar Interview This interview was recorded at Åcon X in Mariehamn in June 2019. Most of it was originally broadcast on the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio. This is the full version, though not being on the radio I can't include the music. The interview covers a range of issues including world politics, Brexit and poetry, but the main discussion covers This is How You Lose the Time War, the novella that Amal has written with Max Gladstone. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/10609781

Maria Dahvana Headley Interview 03/19/2019

Maria Dahvana Headley Interview This is an interview that Cheryl made following an event in Oxford where Maria got to talk to experts in Anglo Saxon literature about her work on Beowulf. The interview covers a number of topics, including what it is like to follow in the footsteps of Tolkien. There is also a fair amount of discussion of modern US politics, feminism, and the failings of previous translations. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/9063866

Joanne Harris at FantasyCon 03/11/2019

Joanne Harris at FantasyCon This is another interview that Cheryl did at FantasyCon 2018. It is with Joanne Harris. They talked about Joanne's career as a fantasy writer, Norse myths, her new book, and who might play Loki if her books about him ever get filmed. The Blue Salt Road is now available from good bookshops everywhere. Joanne and Cheryl also talked about the , which are the inspiration for some of Joanne's recent work. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/8963549

Tade Thompson at FantasyCon 03/04/2019

Tade Thompson at FantasyCon An interview with the leading black speculative fiction author, Tade Thompson, recorded at FantasyCon 2018. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/8870315

Heather Child Interview 08/07/2018

Heather Child Interview Interview with science fiction author, Heather Child, about her book, Everything About You. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/6894881

Jonathan L Howard Interview 12/21/2017

Jonathan L Howard Interview Cheryl welcomed onto her radio show to discuss his latest novel, After the End of the World. The book is set in an alternate universe in which the Nazis won World War II. There is much discussion about how this turned out to be much more topical that Jonathan expected when he wrote the book, and about the merits of Nazi-punching. After the End of the World is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Carter & Lovecraft, featuring descendants of HP Lovecraft and Randolf Carter. There is also discussion of Jonathan's other projects, including the Johannes Cabal series, the Goon Squad superhero adventures, and a brand new video game. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/6078760

Tade Thompson Interview 11/21/2017

Tade Thompson Interview This is an interview that I did with Tade Thompson about a year ago when his novel, Rosewater, was first released. I ran parts of it on Ujima, but the quality of the recording was not good so I was a bit worried about putting the whole thing out. However, Rosewater has just become the of the Best Novel prize in the Nommo Awards from the . It seems like there should be a lot of renewed interest in the book, and in Tade's other work, and that therefore I should share this podcast with you. In the interview Tade talks about some of the ideas behind , about his now released novella, , and about writing a ghost story. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/5966549

Stephanie Saulter at Worldcon 75 10/12/2017

Stephanie Saulter at Worldcon 75 Cheryl Morgan interviews Stephanie Saulter at the World Science Fiction Convention in Helsinki. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/5833275

Foz Meadow Interview 09/14/2016

Foz Meadow Interview In this interview Cheryl talks to Australian author, Foz Meadows, about her recently published novel, An Accident of Stars. Topics covered include women-centered novels, writing trans characters and matriarchal societies. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/4666686

Cat Valente and Finncon 09/06/2016

Cat Valente and Finncon This is the full version of the interview that Cheryl did with Catherynne M. Valente at Finncon 2016. Parts of the interview were previously broadcast on Women's Outlook on Ujima Radio. The interview covers the whole of Cat's career from her childhood obsession with fairy tales through her student days in Edinburgh, her early success with The Orphan's Tales, the amazing phenomenon that is the Fairyland books and her later adult novels such as Deathless and Radiance. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/4646113

Mike Carey at Waterstones 09/01/2016

Mike Carey at Waterstones This is a recording of the interview that Cheryl did with Mike Carey at Bristol Waterstones in May. The bulk of the discussion is about Mike's latest novel, Fellside. However, the conversation also strays onto The Girl with All the Gifts, the Felix Castor novels, the X-Men, the Lucifer TV series, and the Steel Seraglio books that Mike wrote with his wife and daughter. Our apologies for the poor sound quality, particularly when picking up audience questions. The event was organized by the . /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/4635430

Mike Carey on Ujima 08/30/2016

Mike Carey on Ujima Cheryl interviewed Mike Carey on her Ujima show on the very day that X-Men: Age of Apocalypse premiered in the UK. They do chat a bit about Mike's time writing the mutants later on, but the main thrust of the interview is about Mike latest book. Fellside is set in a women's prison, and deals with issues of prison privatisation and drug addiction as well as being a great ghost story. During the interview Cheryl mentions that she will be interviewing Mike again that evening. A recording of that interview will be online here in a few days. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/4629095

Paul Cornell Interview 08/26/2016

Paul Cornell Interview This interview with Paul Cornell too place on Cheryl's Ujima Radio show on May 6th. Paul and Cheryl talked about a variety of subjects including Paul's latest Shadow Police novel, Who Killed Sherlock Holmes, and his comic series, This Damned Band. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/4619997

Cavan Scott Interview 08/24/2016

Cavan Scott Interview This interview with Cavan Scott took place on Cheryl's show on Ujima Radio on April 8th. Cheryl and Cav talked about various of Cav's writing projects including his Star Wars novels, his Sherlock Holmes novel, his Doctor Who comics and, of course, his work on The Beano. The illustration for this episode is of the Star Wars book that Cav wrote for World Book Day 2016. It became the #1 selling book in the UK. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/4614897

Guy Gavriel Kay Interview 06/01/2016

Guy Gavriel Kay Interview The is the full version of the interview that Guy and Cheryl did for Ujima Radio. The broadcast version was cut down by about 50%. The discussion is primarily about Guy's latest novel, Children of Earth and Sky, but touches on aspects of his other work as well. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/4410845

Pete Newman Interview 05/24/2016

Pete Newman Interview This interview was first recorded in May 2015 as part of the Women's Outlook show on . With The Vagrant being published in paperback this month, and the sequel, The Malice, out in hardcover, it seemed like a good time to run with the full version. A few bits of the discussion are slightly dated -- in particular Pete & Emma did not win a Hugo for -- but the discussion of the book is still very relevant. /episode/index/show/salonfutura/id/4390584

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