Baen podcast interviews LMB - part 1
Lots of interviews this year. This one was done the week before WorldCon by telephone (which is why I sound down in a well, and Hank can't be heard at all) with Tony Daniels, a Baen editor. I don't recall meeting Tony before this, but I did get to know him a bit in San Antonio, so now I have a face to go with the voice. (Which I did not, yet, at the time we recorded this.)
We ran long, so the interview has been cut into two parts. The second section will be along this coming week, I believe.
http://baen.com/podcast/podcast.asp
Each of these is an education in how to do it better next time. My career has been on-the-job training from the beginning.
Ta, L.
We ran long, so the interview has been cut into two parts. The second section will be along this coming week, I believe.
http://baen.com/podcast/podcast.asp
Each of these is an education in how to do it better next time. My career has been on-the-job training from the beginning.
Ta, L.
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Karl wrote: ""Within science fiction I can already do everything." - Lois McMaste BujoldI find it really annoying to try to explain to people why I see no reason to read any fiction other than science fiction..."
One of the things I've always valued about the genre is how much other reading it can lead to. Not only nonfiction, to check out more about whatever subjects came up in the story (as a poster earlier in this thread mentioned), but fiction as well. I ended up reading Spenser's The Faerie Queene at age 15 because I'd just read L. Sprague de Camp's and Fletcher Pratt's The Incomplete Enchanter, and wanted to know what it was talking about/riffing off.
It was remarked by a YA librarian acquaintance of mine that while her mainstream readers stuck to mainstream, which the F&SF readers avoided, the F&SF crowd also read far more nonfiction.
Ta, L.
Lois wrote: "One of the things I've always valued about the genre is how much other reading it can lead to."That is one of my memories from grade school years. Lying on my bed with a sci-fi book and three encyclopedia. Long before Star Wars no adult told me that the Sun was a star. That was mind blowing.
But since then most other fiction is not nearly as interesting.
I find it really annoying to try to explain to people why I see no reason to read any fiction other than science fiction. It can encompass everything else.
I have learned more history about the time of the 30 Years War because of Eric Flint's 1632 series than I did from any history classes I ever took.