Salon Futura

This is an interview with Gareth L. Powell that I did on Ujima Radio on December 18th, 2013, shortly after the launch of Gareth's novel, Hive Monkey. The first book in that series, Ack-Ack Macaque, has just become joint-winner of the 2014 British Science Fiction Association Award. The podcast of material from Hive Monkey is available here.

This is a podcast of the interview with Nalo Hopkinson broadcast on Ujima Radio's Women's Outlook Show on February 5th. It covers most of Nalo's novels, especially the latest, Sister Mine. We also discuss the state of LGBT rights in the Caribbean. My apologies for the poor sound quality on my voice during the interview.

This interview was originally recorded for a Ujima Radio show to be broadcast on March 19th. However, as Ujima is off air at the moment, I am podcasting it here instead. The interview is mainly about Karen's latest book, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, which has just launched in the UK. Karen will be at Foyles in Bristol on the evening of the 19th.

This is an edit of a show about Afrofuturism that I did in November 2013. The studio guest is Tade Thompson and there are pre-recorded interviews with Bill Campbell, Tobias Buckell and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, which were done at World Fantasy. For copyright reasons the music that I played during the show cannot be included in this podcast.  

This is a podcast of an interview that Cheryl did with Stephanie Saulter as part of the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio. Nene is a Swedish writer whose work is not yet available in English. Topics addressed include: Getting published in English Urban fantasy in Sweden Swedish crime novels Marriage equality in Sweden Vikings Egyptology (Nene is an archaeologist by training) The World SF Travel Grant Working in a bookstore Wedding tattoos Nene asked me to add that after the show she remembered that Swedes do call some Danish pastries Viennese. The interview was originally broadcast on July 24th.

This is a podcast of an interview that Cheryl did with Stephanie Saulter as part of the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio. Topics addressed include: Why non-white people might want to write science fiction (because Stephanie gets asked that); Diversity in SF&F (with mentions for the Writers of Color twitter account, Nikesh Shukla and Hal Duncan); The Nine Worlds convention (with a mention for Rochita Loenen-Ruiz); Stephanie's life and remarkable family; and The Scriptopus website The interview was originally broadcast on August 14th.

This is a podcast of the Q&A session from the June 2013 Science Fiction in San Francisco event. It is moderated by Terry Bission and features Cliff Winnig, Heather McDougal and Cassie Alexander. SF in  SF is a monthly reading series sponsored by Tachyon Publications and run in aid of the Variety Children's Charity of California. Wizard's Tower is delighted to provide podcast space to allow this excellent event to be enjoyed worldwide.

This is a podcast of the third reading from the June 2013 Science Fiction in San Francisco event. The reader is Cassie Alexander, who entertained us with an extract from her novel, Shapeshifted. SF in  SF is a monthly reading series sponsored by Tachyon Publications and run in aid of the Variety Children's Charity of California. Wizard's Tower is delighted to provide podcast space to allow this excellent event to be enjoyed worldwide.

This is a podcast of the second reading from the June 2013 Science Fiction in San Francisco event. The reader is Heather McDougal, who entertained us with an extract from her novel, Songs for a Machine Age. SF in  SF is a monthly reading series sponsored by Tachyon Publications and run in aid of the Variety Children's Charity of California. Wizard's Tower is delighted to provide podcast space to allow this excellent event to be enjoyed worldwide.

This is a podcast of one of the readings from the June 2013 Science Fiction in San Francisco event. The reader is Cliff Winnig. SF in  SF is a monthly reading series sponsored by Tachyon Publications and run in aid of the Variety Children's Charity of California. Wizard's Tower is delighted to provide podcast space to allow this excellent event to be enjoyed worldwide.