Greg Bear , Hugo and Nebula award winning author of Hull Zero Three , unite us this week on io9 ’s Geek ’s pathfinder to the Galaxy podcast to sing about his novels , work with Neal Stephenson , and the Fermi paradox .
Art byJamie Jones , from the Mongoliad
The Geek ’s Guide to the Galaxy is host by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley .
Read on for this episode ’s fabulous SHOW NOTES !
0:00 Introduction
0:25 Dave and John premise the show
audience : Greg Bear
01:20 Interview begins
01:29 Bear talks about Hull Zero Three , published by Orbit Books
02:05 The scientific discipline behind Hull Zero Three
02:56 How have substantial world events developed since Bear wrote Quantico and Mariposa
04:04 The imaginary technologies in Quantico Mariposa
05:30 Bear ’s collaborationism with Neal Stephenson and others onThe Mongoliad
07:00 The unusual statistical distribution method acting of The Mongoliad
07:33 The proficiency behind mediaeval sword - fighting and fighting
09:43 How to learn to contend with a sword
10:13 Bear ’s study as a advisor for Government agencies
12:09 What was it like appearing on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ?
13:10 put to work in the Halo universe
13:53 The response to his fresh aeon
15:53 The Society of Digital Artists challenge artists to exemplify Eon
16:54 Bear ’s solution to theFermi Paradox from The Forge of God
18:03 What does Bear think of theScience Fiction Museumin Seattle , Washington
19:05 amplify into Fantasy and Horror ?
20:07 ePublishing and eReaders
21:47 The fabrication ofNikos Kazantzakis
23:32 Parallels between Kazantzakis andOlaf Stapledon
25:40 Teaching writing seminar and Terry Brooks ’ Sometimes the Magic Works
27:13 Writing screenplays and the necessity of a lowly attitude
28:17 Some of the lesser live Science Fiction authors who deserve more recognition
29:47 Any late or upcoming projects from Bear ?
31:26 End of consultation
31:37 Ad Spot for Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear
Dave and John talk about exotic invasions
32:36 Alien invasion in Science Fiction
33:45 H.G. Wells ’ The War of the creation
34:30 An early example of the “ big construction ” in democratic literature
34:51 Two rough-cut rule in foreign invasion chronicle
35:43 What would stranger cerebrate of our anti - alien movies and tv set shows ?
35:59War of the Worlds : Global Dispatches
36:53 Big shaft of light - artillery vs. mind control . Which is shuddery ?
38:19 Too many copper - out endings in foreign invasion flicks ?
39:07 Independence Day . Too goofy ?
39:48 Why ca n’t more exotic encroachment movies have drear endings ?
40:20 John Carpenter ’s The Thing , based on John W. Campbell Jr. ’s “ Who go There ? ”
42:03 Heinlein ’s The Puppet Masters
42:43The Genocidesby Thomas M. Disch
43:15Vilcbambaby Harry Turtledove
43:54Seattle Geekly‘s conversation about the concept of the “ gamemaster ”
45:13 So much predictability in today ’s amusement
45:40 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , the film and the graphical novel
46:50They Live(film )
47:36 “ I have come to quetch ass and chew bubblegum … ”
48:02Eight O’Clock in the Morningby Ray Nelson
48:15 Dave ca n’t remember the name of a mysterious ( but wonderful ) short story . Can you help him think ?
49:16 The boom of late exotic encroachment movies : Skyline The Battle of Los Angeles and Monsters
54:48 Ad Spot for Shipbreaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
55:51 Who did n’t want a sword when they were a stripling ?
56:40Records of the Medieval Sword . How lowering is that armour ?
59:12 Ordering from the classified ads in “ Dragon Magazine ”
1:00:12 Training in full plate mail . Not so soft as it seems .
1:01:28 Drowning in shell mail and sweat ?
1:02:07 Show wrap - up
Thanks for listen !
John Joseph Adamsis an anthologist , a author , and a geek . He is the bestselling editor of the anthologies By Blood We subsist , Federations , The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , The Living Dead ( a World Fantasy Award finalist ) , Seeds of Change , andWastelands : Stories of the Apocalypse . His most recent book are The Living Dead 2 and The Way of the Wizard , and he is currently assembling several other anthologies , including Brave New Worlds and The Mad Scientist ’s Guide to World Domination . Barnes & Noble.com identify him “ the reign king of the anthology macrocosm , ” and his account book have been named to numerous undecomposed of the year lists . In summation to his anthology work , he exploit for more than eight years as an editor at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , and is currently the editor ofLightspeed MagazineandFantasy Magazine .
David Barr Kirtleyhas published fabrication in magazine publisher such as Realms of Fantasy , Weird Tales , Lightspeed , Intergalactic Medicine Show , On Spec , and Cicada , and in anthologies such as New Voices in Science Fiction , Fantasy : The good of the Year , and The Dragon Done It . Recently he ’s contribute stories to several of John ’s anthologies , include The Living Dead , The Living Dead 2 , and The Way of the Wizard . He ’s take care numerous committal to writing workshops , include Clarion , Odyssey , Viable Paradise , James Gunn ’s Center for the Study of Science Fiction , and Orson Scott Card ’s writer Bootcamp , and he holds an MFA in screenwriting and fable from the University of Southern California . He also teaches on a regular basis at Alpha , a Pittsburgh - area science fable workshop for untested writer . He live in New York .
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