Catherynne M. Valente , author of Palimpsest ( a finalist for the Hugo Award ) , joins us this calendar week on io9 ’s Geek ’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast to discuss mythpunk , sexually - transmitted city , Prester John , and mush era visions of Mars and Venus .
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The Geek ’s Guide to the Galaxy is host by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley .
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0:00 Intro Music
0:25 master of ceremonies introductions
0:55 A bit of business about the podcast . We now have awebsite .
Interview : Catherynne M. Valente
4:53 Cat talks about some of her favorite book from her puerility : D’Aulaires ’ Book of Greek Myths , The Neverending Story by Michael Ende , Seaward by Susan Cooper , Plato ’s Republic , Waiting for Godot
6:26 The humble stemma of the “ mythpunk ” subgenre . Cat recommend Theodora Goss and Seanan McGuire
8:35 Sexually transmitted city and the inspiration behind Cat ’s novel Palimpsest
10:31 Why Cat prefer to crowdsource her book The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own qualification
12:51 Cat ’s blog is the portal site through which everything fare into her world
14:04 Collaborations with singer / songwriter S. J. Tucker . include aeriform performer !
15:34 Speculative poesy . Cat urge Diane Wakoski ( Medea the Sorceress ) , Amal El - Mohtar , Claire Cooney , Nicole Kornher - Stace , and Jessica Wick
16:58 The all - night interpretation of the Illiad that changed the course of Cat ’s lifetime
18:25 chivalric colour theory ! Why is the fleeceable knight green ?
20:45 Dos and don’ts of writing sex fit
22:55 EditingApex Magazine
24:31 Love letters to pulp - geological era Mars and Venus : “ How to Become a Mars Overlord ” in Lightspeed and “ The Radiant auto Thy Sparrows Drew ” in Clarkesworld
26:01 Are these stories “ veridical skill fiction ” ?
27:31 Aliens , Robots , Spaceships ! Asimov obsession . Cat recommends “ The Child Empress of Mars ” by Theodora Goss
28:28 The chivalric legend of Prester John
31:04 The challenge of accommodate the legend into the novel The Habitation of the Blessed
32:32 Upcoming releases : Ventriloquism ( short story aggregation ) , Deathless ( novel ) , and the photographic print version of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
34:33 How one night with a goat can modify your whole life story
35:05 Dave recommends Mike Duncan’sHistory of Rome podcastand talks about the hilarious death of the Saturnia pavonia Nero
36:52 John recommends Spartacus : pedigree and Baroness Dudevant for its realistic delineation of the parentage - carrying capacitance of ancient mass
39:21 Dave and John make design to stay up all dark and translate Alfred Bester ’s The Stars My Destination and engage in cannibalism
40:23 John ’s sadly never - print anthology Twenty by twenty
41:40 The gelid stride of publication and why all the “ new young author ” are over 30
44:18 opportunity for Young writer : The Scholastic Art & write AwardsandThe Dell Magazines Award . Dave’sResources for Teen Writers
47:12 Pulp magazine imagination of Mars and Venus
48:32 Andrew Stanton ’s upcoming 2012 characteristic film reading of A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
49:51John ’s survey of skill fiction about Mars for the Internet Review of Science Fiction
51:03 Previous attempts to film the John Carter stories
52:57 Mark Atkins ’ supposedly terrible moving-picture show Princess of Mars
54:01 Bridging the spread between erstwhile Mars and new : “ The First Mars Mission ” by Robert F. Young
54:43 Roger Zelazny ’s take on pulp magazine - era Mars and Venus : “ A Rose for Ecclesiastes ” and “ The Doors of His Face , The Lamps of His Mouth . ” Read them in the newNESFA press 6 - volume Seth The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
57:23 Martian Quest , the Mars stories of Leigh Brackett
58:19 Pulp - era Mars and Venus live on
59:42 Dave read a abbreviated section of Catherynne M. Valente ’s “ The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew ”
101:06 Show wrapper - up
Thanks for listening !
John Joseph Adamsis an anthologist , a writer , and a geek . He is the bestselling editor in chief of the anthology By stemma We Live , Federations , The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , The Living Dead ( a World Fantasy Award finalist ) , Seeds of Change , andWastelands : Stories of the Apocalypse . His most recent books are The Living Dead 2 and The room of the Wizard , and he is presently assembling several other anthology , let in Brave New Worlds and The Mad Scientist ’s Guide to World Domination . Barnes & Noble.com name him “ the reign male monarch of the anthology cosmos , ” and his books have been make to legion best of the year tilt . In addition to his anthology work , he worked for more than eight years as an editor at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , and is currently the fiction editor ofLightspeed Magazine .
David Barr Kirtleyhas published fiction in magazines such as Realms of Fantasy , Weird Tales , Lightspeed , Intergalactic Medicine Show , On Spec , and Cicada , and in anthologies such as New Voices in Science Fiction , Fantasy : The Best of the Year , and The Dragon Done It . Recently he ’s contributed taradiddle to several of John ’s anthologies , including The Living Dead , The Living Dead 2 , and The means of the Wizard . He ’s attended numerous writing workshop , including Clarion , Odyssey , Viable Paradise , James Gunn ’s Center for the Study of Science Fiction , and Orson Scott Card ’s writer Bootcamp , and he defend an MFA in screenwriting and fable from the University of Southern California . He also learn on a regular basis at Alpha , a Pittsburgh - area skill fiction workshop for youthful writers . He live in New York .
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