The Sofanauts

Guests this week:

Richard Morgan

Brenda Cooper

Topics Discussed:

Made up words in SF and Fantasy

Moorcock to writer Dr Who

Writing by Hand

Bradbury working on new Chronicles TV

Alan Moor to write opera script for Damon Alban from the Gorillaz

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Guests the week are:

John Joseph Adams

Andrea Kail

Topics Covered:

Lightspeed

Prime Books

The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar

Google Competes with Amazon to Sell E-Books

Clarksworld Citizenship Drive

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Guests this week are:

Peter Watts

Paul Di Filippo

Topics covered.

Ciphers

Ribofunk

Blindsight

Cory Doctorow: With A Little Help

Asimov estate authorises I, Robot sequels

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Today we held a special show regarding the state of SF magazine Asimov’s.

Guest this week.

Jeff VanderMeer

Jeremy Tolbert

Shelia Williams

Brian Bieniowski

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Guests this week:

John Goodwin

Damien G. Walter

Topics:

Galaxy Press

Writers Of The Future / Buy Writers of The Future

Scifi Is Not Just Part of Mainstream Culture

Neil Gaiman and BBC Will Let You Twitter A Story

F&SF’S $2010 in 2010 Contest Winner Announced

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Guests this week:

John DeNardo

Neil Clarke

Topics:

Octavia Butler’s papers are being added to the holdings of Huntington Library, located in San Marino, California.

Virtual anthology of Philippine secondary-world fiction: The Farthest Shore.

Alan Moore’s New Fanzine, Dodgem Logic, launches in November.

George R.R. Martin is up to page 1100 writing A Dance with Dragons,

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Guests this week on the Sofanauts are:

Jeremy Tolbert

Jeff VanderMeer

Topics discussed this week:

BFS admits Lazy Sexism

Promote Literacy with Last Drink Bird Head for Charity

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America announced increased support for AboutSF

RIP: Barbara Bova

Listen and you’ll learn how you could win the soundtracks to Jeff VanderMeer’s Ambergris novels by Robert Devereux, The Church, and Murder by Death, as well as an advance copy of his novel Finch–and help support literacy. (The email address on the show is vanderworld at hotmail dot com).

Picks:

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Zombie Racoons and Killer Bunnys

David Anthony Durham’s The Other Lands

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Guests this week on the Sofanauts are:

Jeremy Tolbert

Matthew Sanborn Smith

Topics this week:

Matthew Sanborn Smith podcast Beware the Hairy Mango.

Joe Haldeman in hospital

Ray Bradbury’s 89th birthday celebration.

Jetpack Test Pilot

Tim Powers confirms Disney optioned On Stranger Tides

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Guests this week on the Sofanauts are:

Jeff VanderMeer

Jeremy Tolbert

Amy H Sturgis

Topics this week:

Matthew Sanborn Smith has started his podcast Beware the Hairy Mango.

I WILL Read Your F@#*ing Script…If You Leave Cookies and Milk

VIZ Media announces the release of Zoo and Usurper of the Sun,

Penguin Announces Launch 6of3 Website to Support Release of New Hitchhikers Novel

Tor.com — not Tor the publisher — debuts its first title as a separate publishing entity: Year’s Best Fantasy 9

Michael Cassutt explains why sci-fi writers are so damn gloomy.

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Guests this week on the Sofanauts are:

Jeff VanderMeer

Mike Allen

Jeremy Tolbert

Topics discussed this week:

Clockwork Phoenix

Spider and Jeanne Robinson

StarShipSofa Stories Vol 1

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