The SF in SF Podcast

SF in SF welcomes the co-hosts of The Outer Dark podcast: World Fantasy Award winner Scott Nicolay, author of And at My Back I Always Hear and the acclaimed Anya Martin, author of Sleeping with the Monster. In our fist even since the pandemic, join host Terry Bisson with a lively Q&A session in front of a live audience. Scott Nicolay, winner of the 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Ficti...

This episode features two of the Bay Area's most fascinating and entertaining authors, Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz, in conversation and Q&A with the audience, moderated by author and editor Terry Bisson. CHARLIE JANE ANDERS has written several novels. In 2005, she received the Lambda Literary Award for work in the transgender category, and in 2009, the Emperor Norton Award. Her 2011...

An Evening with Garth Nix, with readings from his new book, "Angle Mage," with Q&A moderated by Terry Bisson Recorded Wednesday, October 2nd at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco. Garths Brooks is one of the most popular young adult novelists in the genre field. His books include the Old Kingdom fantasy series, comprising Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel and Goldenhand; SF nove...

We're back after skipping August for Worldcon! HANNU RAJANIEMI is a Finnish author of science fiction and fantasy, who writes in both English and Finnish. He holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Oulu, a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Mathematical Physics from the University of Edinburgh. Early works included his first publis...

VYLAR KAFTAN writes speculative fiction of all genres, including science fiction, fantasy, horror, and slipstream. She won a 2013 Nebula Award for her novella The Weight of the Sunrise, and a 2013 Sidewise Award for Short-Form Alternate History. She was also nominated for a 2010 Nebula Award for her short story, "I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You in Reno". Her stories have appeared in Lightspeed...

In November 2018, fire broke out on Camp Creek Road and soon raced through Butte County, California. By the time the fire was finally extinguished, the town of Paradise had been scoured from the map. Nearly 100 people were dead. Damage ran to an estimated $16 billion. The disaster has been named the Camp Fire, in memory of its place of origin. The horror writers of Northern California rallied to r...

PETER S. BEAGLE is the internationally bestselling and beloved, author of numerous classic fantasy novels and collections, including The Last Unicorn, Tamsin, The Line Between, Sleight of Hand, Summerlong, In Calabria, and most recently, The Overneath. He is the editor of The Secret History of Fantasy and the co-editor of The Urban Fantasy Anthology. His newest release is The Unicorn Anthology, re...

Nancy Kress is the author of 27 novels, three books on writing, four short story collections, and over 100 works of short fiction. While she never planned on becoming a writer, she started writing fiction in 1973, while pregnant with her second child; staying at home full-time with infants left her time to experiment! Her first story, "The Earth Dwellers," appeared in Galaxy in 1976. Her first nov...

Readings and Q&A with the authors: Anya Martin Anya is a fiction writer based in Atlanta. Sleeping with the Monster, her debut short story collection, was published by Lethe Press in autumn 2018. She is a storyteller in prose, comics and journalism whose passion is delving into the whimsical and bitter truths of reality through the lens of the Weird, horror, magical realism and spec-lit. Nick...

Recorded live at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco on Sunday, January 20, 2019. There are three author readings followed by a discussion session. Hosted by Terry Bisson. KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is an American writer of science fiction. He has published 19 novels and many short stories but is best known for his Mars books. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his nove...

Readings and discussions with Rudy Rucker and Greg Bossert. Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. He received the Philip K. Dick award for his early cyberpunk novel Software, and again for his Wetware. Software (1982) was perhaps the first SF novel where a human's personality (the "software") is transferred into a ro...

Sheila Finch is best known for her sequence of stories about the Guild of Xenolinguists. She won a Nebula novella award for "Reading the Bones" in 1998. Her most recent book is Villa Far From Rome. David D. Levine is the author of Andre Norton Award winning novel Arabella of Mars (Tor 2016), sequels Arabella and the Battle of Venus (Tor 2017) and Arabella the Traitor of Mars (Tor 2018), and over f...

An evening with George R.R. Martin, creator of Game of Thrones, in conversation with Hugo Award-winning artist John Picacio recorded at the landmark Fox Theatre in Redwood City on August 14, 2018. A lively audience Q&A follows the discussion.

PAUL PARK is the author of All Those Vanished Engines, A Princess of Roumania, and numerous other novels. He has published short stories in Omni Magazine, Interzone and other magazines and teaches a course in reading and writing science fiction at Williams College. TERRY BISSON is an American science fiction and fantasy author. His books include Voyage to the Red Planet (1990), Pirates of the Univ...

Readings and conversation with Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Meg Elison, Ellen Klages Lucy Jane Bledsoe, most recent novel, The Evolution of Love, came out in May. She's the author of a collection of short stories, a collection of narrative nonfiction, and four other novels, including A Thin Bright Line and The Big Bang Symphony. Her fiction has won a Yaddo Fellowship, the 2013 Saturday Evening Post Fiction...

Michael Moorcock in conversation with Terry Bisson, along with questions from the audience.

SILVIA MORENO GARCIA is Mexican by birth and Canadian by inclination. She has edited several anthologies, including She Walks in Shadows (World Fantasy Award winner, published in the USA as Cthulhu's Daughters), Sword & Mythos, Fungi, Dead North, and Fractured. Her debut novel, Signal to Noise, won the Members Choice Copper Cylinder Award in Canada in 2016, and was nominated for the British Fa...

"Our Big Show of the Year" -- Terry Bisson Dedicated to Ursula K. Le Guin Kim Stanley Robinson is an American writer of science fiction. He has published nineteen novels and numerous short stories but is best known for his Mars trilogy. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes running through them and feature sci...

Our Halloween special: Women in Horror: with Erika Mailman, Loren Rhoads, Dana Fredsti ERIKA MAILMAN is an American author and journalist. Born in Vermont, she is the descendant of a woman who twice stood trial for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in 1692. Mailman attended both Colby College and the University of Arizona, Tucson, later writing a column for the Montclarion edition of the Contra...

SF in SF moderator TERRY BISSON will host authors KEN SCHOLES and BEN LOORY. KEN SCHOLES, with Hymn — the final book in the Psalms of Isaak series BEN LOORY, with Tales Of Falling And Flying — his new story collection Recorded live at the American Book Binders Museum in San Francisco. Music by Haaj https://soundcloud.com/thehaaj

Readings and a lively discussion with Annalee Newitz & Robin Sloan Annalee Newitz(founding editor of io9) reads from her debut novel, "Autonomous" Robin Sloan, bestselling author of "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore", reading from his new book, "Sourdough". Recorded live on 11/19/2017 at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco.

TERRY BISSON will host authors DARYL GREGORY and REBECCA GOMEZ FARRELL. Tonights discussion theme is: Genre: the restrictions and possibilities that it brings to an author. DARYL GREGORY is a science fiction, fantasy and comic book author, His new literary speculative novel Spoonbenders was published by Knopf in June REBECCA GOMEZ FARRELL writes all the speculative fiction genres she can conjure u...

Recorded live on Sunday, June 11: An extremely entertaining evening of readings and discussion with Steven Boyett and Ken Mitchroney about their new book, "Fata Morgana", with guest moderator Bay Area author Cliff Winnig. ​ Steven R. Boyett‘s novels include the fantasy classic Ariel, The Architect of Sleep, Elegy Beach, and Mortality Bridge. He has been a professional martial arts instructor, pape...

A lively reading and discussion with Pat Murphy and Madeleine Robins, moderated by Bay Area author and editor Terry Bisson. Pat Murphy writes fiction that has "a hint of the strange," from the Nebula Award-winning The Falling Woman to the World Fantasy Award winner Bones. Her novelette "Rachel in Love" won the Nebula Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, the Locus Award, and the Asimov Read...

EFFIE SEIBERG is an up-and-coming young science fiction and fantasy writer, based in San Francisco with the requisite San-Francisco-based tech job. With a slew of promising short fiction to her credit, at any one time she is either working on 1) baking a spaceship-shaped cake, 2) a YA novel 3) walking her dog YoYo, and/or making everything in the tech sector just a little bit better. Follow her on...