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ITV Podcast interviews J.G. Ballard

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ITV Podcast - The South Bank ShowThere is a fascinating interview with J.G. Ballard available from The South Bank Show. This is a show produced by ITV, the U.K.’s Independent Television Network. The programme is hosted by the always erudite Melvyn Bragg whom you may already know from his other podcast BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time.

Together, Bragg and Ballard’s discuss the creation of fiction, Ballards experiences as a medical student, his childhood growing up in a Japanese concetration camp and the particular importance of Science Fiction.

Ballard also talks about the influence of surrealism in his early novels, which all deal with natural catastrophes: The Drowned World, The Crystal World, The Drought.

Subscribe to the show via this feed:

http://download.itv.com/southbankshow/podcast.xml

posted by Jesse Willis

Stephen King Interview with Reading from Lisey’s Story

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Times Online Book PodcastsA Stephen King Special is the currently featured book podcast from The Times Online. The 3-part podcast includes a 30-minute interview with King about his latest book, Lisey’s Story, a 17-minute reading by King from the book, and a 20-minute Q&A session in which King responds to questions submitted by Times readers. The podcasts are also available by subscription through iTunes. Links to excerpts from the first two chapters of Lisey’s Story are given from the Stephen King Special web page. For more about King and Lisey’s Story, see the November 12th Sunday NY Times Book Review where this is the featured book review (free but requires registration).

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New Podcast – Adventures in Scifi Publishing

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Podcast - Adventures In SciFi PublishingAdventures in Scifi Publishing is a newish podcast with three show so far. Host Shaun Farrell covers SF publishing news and does some good interviews with authors, editors, and publishers. Shaun also writes and does interviews for the online magazine, Far Sector SFFH (science fiction/fantasy/horror), and is an aspiring SF writer.

Episode 1 Shaun interviews Ray Bradbury and Paul Levinson |MP3|

Episode 2 has interviews with R.A. Salvatore and Senior Editor Jaime Levine. |MP3|

Episode 3 has an interview with YA fantasy writer Sam Enthoven. |MP3|

To subscribe via podcast feed:

http://scifipublishing.libsyn.com/rss

posted by The Time Traveler

Mur Lafferty Interviewed on The Small World Podcast

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Small World Podcast

The Small World Podcast’s latest interview is with none other than Mur Lafferty. Well into the Halloween spirit, host Bazooka Joe talks with Mur about the horror-podcast magazine Pseudopod, as well as many other haunting topics. (All right they aren’t really all that haunting. I was just sticking to a theme.)

Subscribe to Small World’s Feed with this link:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/smallworld

Direct link to the interview here.

posted by Dani

The Sci Phi Show interviews Science Fiction author Robert J. Sawyer

The Sci Phi Show, has an exclusive interview with Hugo and Nebula award winning author Robert J. Sawyer. I got a chance to hear the half-hour interview early and it’s a real cracker! Jason and Rob talk about Rob’s newest novel, Rollback, the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, and its relationship to the writing of Golden Fleece. Ever wonder what sciences influence an authors works? Rob expounds on the origins of many of his novels, how he likes to bridge the “grandly cosmic” and the “intimately human.” Rob even confides about which is his favorite of his many novels. This is probably the most exciting guest Jason’s had on his show, and if you haven’t been listening he’s had some weighty philosophers on.

Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed via this link:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSciPhiShow

posted by Jesse Willis