A Conversation With Ellen Datlow
An interview with Rodger Turner
On choosing stories:
"First, I started with stories that I've loved and stuck in my mind from
when I first began reading sf. I look for those stories that transcend the
time in which they were written, and those that haven't been overexposed in
the past few years. Or just stories that I think readers would enjoy and
may not have read."
A Conversation With Charles de Lint
An interview with Jayme Lynn Blaschke
On the importance of setting:
"It's another character as far as I'm concerned. In Forests there's a huge ice storm
that brings the entire city to a halt and that was as much an important part of the story as the
more individual characters going about their business. The spiritworld -- at least in how it
relates to the Newford stories -- gets more defined in it as well, and even more so in the book
I'm currently working on, The Onion Girl."
A Conversation With Samuel R. Delany
An interview with Jayme Lynn Blaschke
On getting credit as a writer:
"Half a dozen years after Dhalgren appeared, someone sent me
a recently written grammar book, for people learning English, in
which -- among the various examples of American writing scattered
throughout -- two or three paragraphs of Dhalgren were quoted as an
example of economical and informative prose. The writer talked a
bit about the structure of the sentences, made one or two points
about their arrangement and internal form. At the time, I remember, I was overwhelmed."
A Conversation With Don Dixon
An interview with David Maddox
On working at the Griffith Observatory:
"It actually forced me in some ways to learn the new technology because, up until five or six years ago, I was just a
painter and that's how I made all my pictures. But it became so obvious (at the Observatory) that in order to get a show out
on time I would have to go digital that it forced me to learn these tools. I'm glad of that because otherwise I would not be
competitive with anyone else."
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Sidestepping Dimensions: an interview on Publishing Doctor Who Books
conducted by Sandy Auden
"Books that are entertaining, with something to say. We want to remain open to different approaches, and
don't feel constrained by having to follow series continuity if we are presented with an idea which works
well outside it. Ultimately it's our intention to present good fiction and that is uppermost in our minds at all times."
A Conversation With Gardner Dozois
An interview with Jayme Lynn Blaschke
On what kind of editor he is:
"Well, I don't see myself as a John W. Campbell sort of editor. He was famous for assigning ideas to writers
and coming up with a lot of the idea content for the magazine, and indicating the direction in which he wanted
the magazine to go, the themes he wanted explored. That's not really my style. I'm not all that interested
in my ideas. I know my ideas are puerile. It's the writers' ideas that I'm interested in seeing, so I
see myself as a receptive or reactive editor, more along the lines of Anthony Boucher or Bob Mills or someone
or that sort."
A Conversation With Hal Duncan
An interview with Jakob Schmidt
On modernism:
"Well, the way I always think about modernism is that in the 18th and 19th century you've got two big, warring
aesthetics: rationalism and romanticism. And to me, modernism is where these two come together. It's the
battleground between these two aesthetics. Even Wells' fiction was rationalist romance. The writers Wells,
Jules Verne and, to some extent, Edgar Allan Poe can be seen as romanticists. But at the same time, you can see them as
rationalist. Or think of H.P. Lovecraft: a lot of people read Lovecraft and think of his "Elder Gods" as
supernatural beings. But Lovecraft himself was a complete nihilist. He made a point of the fact that he did
not believe in God. "
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