View on Zencastr Mark kicks off the podcast with a diabolical question for Joe and their guest, renowned Canadian science fiction writer, Robert J. Sawyer. “If you could write – and consume – only one of these genres of science fiction, what would you pick? Space opera. Post-Apocalyptic. Or Cyberpunk?” Everyone has an answer and…
View on Zencastr The lads are joined by Noah Chinn, a Canadian writer of SFF, contemporary fiction and retro mysteries. (The latter two under the pen-name Noah J.D. Chinn.) Mark kicks off the podcast by asking Joe and Noah if there was anything weird happening to their hair in the 90s, which is also when…
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by Canadian writer of futuristic and contemporary mystery/thrillers, Timothy S. Johnston. They discuss the classic 1982 science fiction horror movie, The Thing. Directed by John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell, watching The Thing was a pivotal moment in Timothy’s life. “It was a watershed moment for me!”…
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe jump around in time with Nebula- and Hugo-Award winning author, Robert Charles Wilson. Robert brings H. G. Wells to the podcast, with a discussion of how fascinating it would be to see what happens in the future – an idea that had some impact on how he became a…
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark join Matt Watts, writer, comedian and actor to discuss the classic radio series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (HHGTG). That’s right, before it was a book or a movie, the Douglas Adams classic was a radio series on the BBC. They get into the nature of writing. What…
“When you write science fiction you feed from the work of many other fantastic people.” –Michèle Laframboise View on Zencastr Michèle found Sheri S. Tepper’s Grass totally engrossing; she especially enjoyed the well-drawn secondary characters, the planet itself, which was like a character, and how she managed multiple story lines. Tepper started to write later…
View on Zencastr This episode is a Re-Creative first, as Joe and Mark host two guests on the same show. Celu Amberstone and Paula Johanson are both writers and educators with a love of the natural world. They also both live in British Columbia. Paula’s inspiration is the map, particularly a map of Salt Spring…
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe talk to author and former Amazing Stories editor Ira Nayman. The three have a wide-ranging and mind-bending conversation about the multiverse, theories of time travel, the nature of satire, and, of course, cannibalism. Nayman considers O Lucky Man! a “cinematic version of Candide.” Directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring…
Cape Breton speculative fiction writer Sherry D. Ramsey joins Mark and Joe to discuss a painting that has been “lost” to her, The Traveler.