EFC17-011 HowardWaldrop [41:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (65)

Chris interviews Howard Waldrop at Fencon VI.

Show Notes

We got some of the names wrong in the conversation and they are corrected here in the show notes.

Winner of the Jack Trevor Story Memorial Cup. Comes with a $1000 prize. Condition: Must spend it all and have nothing to show for it. Awarded by Michael Moorcock.

Won the Nebula and World Fantasy Award for his short story “The Ugly Chickens.”

Unique voice. Comparable to Cordwainer Smith & R.A. Lafferty. And Avram Davidson.

Anthology: Howard Who?

Admired by fellow writers such as George RR Martin (GRRM) and Bradley Denton.
Anthologies of select works:

Things Will Never Be The Same (short)
Other Worlds Better Lives (long)

Comparison of novella A Dozen Tough Jobs to film Oh, Brother Where Art Thou

What would Howard recommend to new readers?

“Night of the Cooters”
“God’s Hooks”
Writes longhand and uses a manual typewriter. Deciding on what works best for you.

Don Delilo, ER Doctorow use typewriters but have computers.

Howard & George Show
Howard & Gardner Show

Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd & The Gray Mouser. We discuss Issek of the Jug featured in the short story “Lean Times in Lankhmar”.

Currently working on The Moon World (a steampunk tale)

Norman Borlaug was the father of the green revolution.

Search for Tom Purdue (for Subterranean)

Wherein we discuss GRRM’s April Fool’s joke on Howard.

Links

Howard Waldrop Homepage
http://www.sff.net/people/waldrop/

Other Worlds, Better Lives – Selected Long Fiction 1989 – 2003
Things Will Never Be the Same: Selected Short Fiction 1980 – 2005
http://www.oldearthbooks.com/howard_waldrop.htm

 

 Conestoga 11 Episode 38 Glen Cook [34:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (28)

Although all of the Conestoga Podcasts are archived and listenable here, I want to repost just a select few. And this is one of them. This is my interview with Glen Cook recorded at Conestoga 11 on July 21, 2007 and first released on May 20, 2008. I did save my show notes, but they are stored in a WordPress database archive and I seem to have misplaced this file.

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Cook

 

 EFC17-010 Bland Lemon Denton [39:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (148)

Chris interviews Bland Lemon Denton, he world’s oldest (and worst) bluesman, Caroline “Badcat” Spector joins us.

Show notes-

I may get around to doing show notes for this episode, but I wanted to make sure it got posted. It’s a long rambling interview.

Links

http://www.bradleydenton.net/

http://carolinespector.com/

 

 Conestoga 10 Episode 18: David Drake & MT Reiten [44:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (141)

Update: I have uploaded all of the Conestoga podcasts. They can be found on the Conestoga Podcast page, but to make it easier. I’ve included the Drake & Reiten podcast here.

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I do have a separate page about the Conestoga Podcast. I’m trying to decide the best way to repost them. I could include them directly in the feed. I would prefer a static archive that a listener could subscribe to a separate RSS feed.

Below is David Drake being interviewed by M.T. Reiten. I’ll be reposting all of the podcasts soon.

 

 EFC17-009 Three Weird Sisters [17:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (188)

Mel Tatum interviews Fen Con V’s Music Guests of Honor Three Weird Sisters.

The band members are Gwen Knighton, Dr. Mary Crowell, Brenda Sutton, and Teresa Gibson Powell. Alas, Gwen was not able to attend FenCon V.

Links

Three Weird Sisters
http://www.threeweirdsisters.com/

Mary Crowell
http://www.magnusretail.com/

Brenda Sutton
http://www.bsutton.com/brenda/

GAFilk
http://www.gafilk.org/

What is filk?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filk