By David Agranoff
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I am very excited about this episode, author Johnny Compton joins me to talk about his Sophomore novel Devil Kills Devils from Tor Nightfire. I enjoyed coming into this novel cold, not knowing anything about the plot, but it is a supernatural horror novel that knocked my socks off.
We talk about Compton’s influences, his background, and how he got into writing and start with a non-spoiler conversation about Devils Kill Devils. After a spoiler warning, we get full under the hood with this powerful novel. Plus we geek out about McCammon’s Swan Song.
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Returning to Postcards from a Dying World is Three-time Bram Stoker award-winning author Sarah Langan. She joined me two years ago to discuss her amazing cli-fi re-telling of the Monsters Are Due on Maple Street – Good Neighbors. She is back for her full-blown science fiction follow-up A Better World.
In this episode, we talk about the suburbs, world-building, science fiction, and everything in A Better World. One of the best reads I had this year I hope you’ll check it out!
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In 1970, Avon Books published a landmark anthology, “Science Fiction Hall of Fame,” featuring 16 classic short stories that represent landmark tales of the genre. The stories were voted on by the members of the new (at the time, in the late 1960s) organization Science Fiction Writers of America. In this series, I will be joined by a panel of guests to break down these stories and talk about the authors in the book.
In this episode, I am joined by two experts on the history of science fiction. Joachim Boaz is a Historian and Teacher who has been writing about vintage Science Fiction since 2010 and can be found at sciencefictionruminations.com. Greg Mollin is a writer and Bookseller and the longtime owner of the amazing Artifact Books in Encinitas California. Artifactrarebooks.com
We are talking about The Huddling Place by Clifford Simak, The story that eventually became a chapter of one of my all-time favorite novels CITY. We talk about Simak in general, the history of the story, and the novel.
Read the story here:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v33n05_1944-07_AK/page/n131/mode/1up
City can be found at many used bookstores do try to search indies before buying at Amazon.
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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo is a two-time Bram Stoker award-winning writer, storyteller, and creator based in Chicago. Stephen King has Maine, Josh Malerman has Michigan and Cina is quickly becoming the voice of all this street-level crime and horror in Chicago.
In this interview, we focus on her novel Forgotten Sisters. The novel combines horror, crime, and dark fairy tale vibes. We talk about Pelayo’s influences, and the city of Chicago and go super deep into the writing process. The first 30 minutes is spoiler-free, after a warning we open it up— and go deep into this fantastic new writer. A great interview with an exciting writer
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Welcome to a new sub-series of the podcast devoted to screenplays for movies that never got made. There are tons of famous screenplays from Oliver Stone’s first draft of Conan to Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness. For each episode in this series, we will read and review a script that never got made.
In this episode, I am joined by author Anthony Trevino and Musician/Filmmaker Issa Diao to discuss David Twohy’s 1989 script for Alien3. The writer of The Fugitive and the future director of Pitch Black, Below and a Perfect Getaway was the third writer on the film. We break down where the franchise was, and how this draft happened, and then we break down the script and talk about our ideas for what might have worked at the time.
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On this episode of the podcast, I am joined by microbiologist and science fiction author Joan Slonczewski. They are the author of the John W. Campbell award-winning eco-feminist classic A Door into Ocean. It was released in 1986, but Joan and I discussed it because we will soon be on a panel at the Speculative Fiction in Media conference in LA in October. So as a little preview, we go one-on-one about it.
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Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor
Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/
In 1970 Avon Books published a landmark anthology “Science Fiction Hall of Fame” featuring 16 classic short stories that represent landmark tales of the genre. The stories were voted on by the members of the new (at the time in the late 60s) organization Science Fiction Writers of America. In this series, I will be joined by a panel of different guests to break down these stories and talk about the authors in the book.
In this episode, I am joined by two experts on the history of science fiction. Cora Buhlert is a writer, teacher, and translator from Germany. Three-time Hugo finalist and 2022 Hugo winner for Best Fan Writer. Brian Collins is the host of the excellent Science Fiction & Fantasy Remembrance blog, Young People Read Old SFF and both write for Galactic Journey.
The story we are covering is the 1943 classic Mimsy Were the Borogoves by Lewis. This story appeared in the February 1943 issue of Astounding…
Read it here:
https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v30n06_1943-02_dongev-sas/page/n51/mode/2up
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After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds and talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the 2nd season of Star Trek Prodigy. Returning for our 11th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek.
Joining me as always are my bridge crew vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, and Musician/ filmmaker Issa Diao.
In this episode, we will break down the ins and out of the second long-delayed season of Star Trek Prodigy. We also break down the Star Trek news that was fresh at the time coming out of comic-con. Sorry, I honestly thought this episode was released a while ago. Opps. Better late than never. Give us more Star Trek Prodigy.
I am excited to welcome back author David James Keaton who wrote one of my favorite novels of last year Head Cleaner. I am sorry something went wrong with my microphone, I fixed it, I think. Sorry if it sounds funky. Keaton is the author of weird bizarro Sci-fi horror novels. Shallow Ends is exactly the story of a party bus built on a fire truck that ends up being a hybrid of Speed and the Twilight Zone, with great dialogue.
In this conversation we chat about Keaton’s novels, fix-up novels, how our mutual love of story structure affects us as readers. This is a tangent-filled talk that is less interview than it should be. No serious spoilers but lots of writers process talk.
Psychoactive is a collection of extreme horror novellas that collectively explore the themes of Transformation, all three novellas have different takes on horror tone . As a good anthology does, it highlights the strengths and skills of the authors represented. Featuring works by Ryan C. Thomas author of the Summer I Died, writing with Anthony Trevino my co-author on Nightmare City, Cody Goodfellow author of Perfect Union, and Ed Kurtz author of Bleed.
In this episode Cody, Ryan and Anthony the San Diego authors - join me to talk about their novellas. It is a fun conversation about writing and storytelling.
•You can find my books here:
Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW
•And me here:
Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff
Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor
Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/
The podcast currently has 167 episodes available.