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…
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…
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 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…
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 When author and jazz singer Krista Wallace saw Tunnel Vision, a painting by Burnaby artist Jane Appleby [see below], she knew she had to buy it. “I walked around the corner, and I saw it, and I was just locked on,” Wallace says. She was in the process of writing her first…
View on Zencastr The Overstory is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel that had quite a meaningful and moving impact on this week’s guest: the writer, naturalist and limnologist, Nina Munteanu. Nina considers herself an environmental activist and ecologist, and much of her fiction is written in a sub-genre of SF: eco-fiction. She’s also a lover…
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…