9 - I Adore Finding Out What People Eat

My guest this week is Anna - ForestOfGlory on Twitter & Dreamwidth.  We talked about the details that suck us into stories, and those that knock us out.

Essay on The Canon.  (And Renay's post which inspired it)

Books with great worldbuilding! 

• A Door Into Ocean - Joan Slonczewski
• Spirit Gate (Crossroads Book 1) - Kate Elliott
• King's Dragon (Crown of Stars Book 1) - Kate Elliott
• A Natural History of Dragons - Marie Brennan

Response to Uprooted from Anna.  My comments in episode 5.

Pesky details that may knock us out of a story:

• Intellectual history of Constitutional Monarchy through Hobbes & Locke
• Coppicing (consider The Illustrated History of the Countryside by Oliver Rakham)
• Invasive species, alien evolution, and personalities based on alien herbivore/carnivore status
• Timescales for civilization development & evolutionary pressure

Recent Short Fiction Recommendations

Below the Root by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.  Green Sky Trilogy book 1.

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Interview with Troy L. Wiggins

This episode I am joined by Troy L Wiggins (@troylwiggins) to talk about some of his history with the genre.  Troy blogs at afrofantasy.net and is a published author as well as reader.  Two recent posts from Troy's blog include - In Defense of Sword and Soul and Heart of the City: Examining Half-Resurrection Blues and the Urban in Urban Fantasy. 

Some early genre book titles (and authors): Chronicles of Narnia, David Eddings, The Hobbit, driven from the genre by Lord of the Rings and brought back by Redwall, also Eragon.

Other formative authors and titles: Zora Neale Hurston, Walter Mosley, Hampton Sides - Hellhound on his Trail

Minister Faust Interview with N. K. Jemisin

Some Sources - Apex, Shimmer, Skiffy & Fanty (Short and Sublime roundups by @cecilykane), Io9 roundups

SFF Authors / Stories/Anthologies/Books recommended in this podcast -

• Lisa Bolekaja (@lisabolekaja)  - Three Voices (in Uncanny)

• Daniel José Older (@djolder) - Ginga (at tordotcom)

• Kai Ashante Wilson - Devil in America (at tordotcom)

• Malon Edwards (@malonlouis) - Half Dark Promise  (in Shimmer)

• Phenderson Djeli Clark (@pdjeliclark) - With a Golden Risha (in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly)

• Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History - ed. Rose Fox and Daniel José Older

• Dark Matter Anthology (includes a Charles Saunders story) - ed. Sheree Renée Thomas (@blackpotmojo on Twitter)

•  Imaro - Charles Saunders

• Meji Dulogy - Milton J. Davis

• Victor LaValle - Lone Women (in Long Hidden) and The Big Machine

• Steven Barnes & Trudi Canavan

Short Fiction reviewers - @ClowderOfTwo / QuickSipReviews.Blogspot.com, Ethan Robinson's Marooned Off Vesta, @sffmicroreviews

David Anthony Durham's Acacia - "Directly responsible for deciding to write Fantasy"

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Kickoff - Book History & Buried Giant

In this episode - Vision, History, Worldbuilding and A Book Dragon

My Vision for Cabbages & Kings

My history with the genre

• Lots of Secondary World fantasy because Tolkien
• Very little Harry Potter or Pratchett
• Plot criticism rooted in the Renaissance (episodic Romances vs. Epic plots with a beginning, middle, and an end)
• Chasing Kate Elliott books through used book sales
• My re-reading habits
• Would like to read more short stories and space opera.  Recommendations?

A recent reaction to The Buried Giant and worldbuilding (or lack thereof)

• Thoughts about criticism
  • Reader response
  • What project is being attempted
  • How well is it accomplished
  • How well does it execute on other conventions (i.e. worldbuilding in Epic Fantasy, which Buried Giant isn't trying to do)

Remembering A Book Dragon, the book that's always been on the shelf without knowing how it got there.

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