Tag: speculative fiction
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Episode 51: Fahrenheit 451
The lads are joined by writer and poet, Abigail Grimes, so they can discuss the classic Ray Bradbury novel, Fahrenheit 451.
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Episode 45: Ambient Electronic Music
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by the super successful and super-fun science fiction writer, John Scalzi. Scalzi tells the lads about how he almost missed his first WorldCon, in Toronto, 2003, because he forget his passport at the airport. He rushed there just in time to sit on his first panel, where…
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Episode 44: Crab Village
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe chat with the Canadian poet and science fiction doyenne, Candas Jane Dorsey. Candas is well-known in Canadian science fiction circles for her work as a novelist (Black Wine, A Paradigm of Earth) and editor-in-chief of The Books Collective, which included River, Slipstream and Tesseract Books. They start the conversation…
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Episode 22: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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…
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Episode 12: Children’s Games
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe revisit childhood with Canadian author Arlene F. Marks, as they discuss the painting Children’s Games, by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Arlene explains why the painting is so important to her as a writer. Like the painting, which shows 230 children playing 83 different games of the…
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Episode 5: The Traveler
Cape Breton speculative fiction writer Sherry D. Ramsey joins Mark and Joe to discuss a painting that has been “lost” to her, The Traveler.