ISBW #131- Worldcon Interviews – Lake, Gilman, and Kelly, Kessel, and Cadigan

By Mur Lafferty On September 14, 2009 · 9 Comments · In Featured, Interview, Podcast

00:00:07: ISBW #131
00:01:12: State of the Mur roundup (vacation, DragonCon, writing)
00:02:43: Plan for the fall: War, ï¿½project undergroundï¿½, and NaNoWriMo
00:03:58: Announcement!ï¿½ Upcoming interview with David Niall Wilson
00:06:32: Promo: The Dreamerï¿½s Thread
00:07:47: WorldCon interview with Hugo nominee Jay Lake
00:26:52: Promo: Lost Gods
00:28:10: WorldCon interview with Campbell award nominee Felix Gilman
00:39:07:ï¿½ Gilman references The Warriors, a 1979 cult action/thriller based on the 1965 novel of the same name by Sol Yurick.ï¿½ The book and movie are modern retellings of Xenophonï¿½s Anabasis.
00:48:03: Promo: Jennifer Hudockï¿½s Goblin Market
00:49:08: WorldCon impromptu Round Table chat with James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
00:53:26: Pat Cadigan joins the round table
01:05:12: Recommended reading: Tom Reamyï¿½s San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories (1979) and Blind Voices (1978)

Show notes provided by Carrie Kei Heim Binas.

Tagged with: fandom • worldcon

9 Responses to ISBW #131- Worldcon Interviews – Lake, Gilman, and Kelly, Kessel, and Cadigan

Jay Lake: [links] Link salad wakes up, gets out of bed, drags a comb… says:

September 15, 2009 at 7:40 am

[...] ISBW #131 – Worldcon Interviews – Lake, Gilman, and Kelly, Kessel, and Cadigan — Mur Lafferty’s podcast, interviewing a few of us writers who were at WorldCon. [...]
Carrie says:

September 15, 2009 at 9:31 am

Yay for NaNoWriMo! YOU CAN DO IT!

And, once again the podcast didn’t make it into the iTunes feed. If you have the time (ha!) to fix that, it would be awesome.
Felix Gilman WebJournal » Interview says:

September 17, 2009 at 9:28 pm

[...] just realized I never linked to this: Mur Lafferty’s podcast interview of me and others at [...]
Johan Lagerqvist says:

September 18, 2009 at 9:09 am

For anyone interested, the story Gilman refers to is The Anabasis by Xenophon. Check out this Wikipedia link for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_(Xenophon)

Also: Great interviews, Mur. Keep ‘em coming.
RichM says:

September 19, 2009 at 12:05 pm

Yes, with the name accented on the second syllable. And the film that Gilman cited is this one.
Weekend Linkage « ab initio. ab intra. says:

September 19, 2009 at 8:59 pm

[...] WorldCon interviews with Jay Lake, Felix Gilman, and a round table-like chat with Jim Kelly, John Kessel, and Pat Cadigan. – ISBW #131 [...]
What Will You Give Up To Write Your Book? by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn says:

October 14, 2009 at 1:13 am

[...] Yes, gaming is fun and relaxing but how much time do you really need? I recently listened to a podcast of Mur Lafferty’s where she discusses with Jay Lake giving up gaming. He noted that for him it is the same part of [...]
Zing: Getting Lost « MentatJack says:

October 30, 2009 at 11:32 am

[...] highly recommend this ISBW interview with Felix Gilman for more elaboration on the power of getting lost. In fact, I recommend that [...]
“I am a writer” : I Should Be Writing says:

March 18, 2010 at 11:07 am

[...] also cut television and gaming out of his life so he could write. Learn more about that in the interview I did with him last [...]