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Tanith Lee interview

Tanith Lee interview

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! THE OBJECT OF DESIRE — AN INTERVIEW WITH TANITH LEE In a remarkable career, spanning four decades, Tanith Lee has written stories in practically every genre or subgenre of speculative fiction one could imagine: dark fantasy, children’s fantasy, gothic [...]

May 15, 2012 | 1 Comment More
Catharsis and compulsion — an interview with Elizabeth Bear

Catharsis and compulsion — an interview with Elizabeth Bear

I recently had the opportunity to interview award-winning author, Elizabeth Bear. It was a remarkably challenging and candid interview — much, one imagines, like the writer herself, who displayed a marked disinclination to whitewash the truth or tell comforting lies. She is the author of more than twenty published novels and a long list of [...]

November 16, 2011 | 1 Comment More
Stephen Palmer Interview

Stephen Palmer Interview

VEGETABLE COMPUTERS, NARCOLEPTIC SNOW, AND THE EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF LIFE I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Stephen Palmer: writer, space-rock musician, and artist. One of the most intriguing and eccentric writers on the Science Fiction scene ever since his debut novel Memory Seed first appeared in 1996, Stephen has released several albums with his [...]

November 2, 2011 | 2 Comments More
William Patrick Maynard interview

William Patrick Maynard interview

chronicles: What draws you to classic pulp fiction? What do you find in it that may be missing in contemporary adventure fiction? Patrick Maynard: I don’t honestly think of it as pulp fiction so much as storytelling. I read Stoker, Conan Doyle, Rohmer, Hammett, and Chandler as a kid and still read them today because [...]

January 1, 2010 | 0 Comments More
Lois McMaster Bujold interview

Lois McMaster Bujold interview

chronicles: The Chalion books are wonderful. I had never read anything of yours before, and the first chapter of The Curse of Chalion completely won me over. The three books form a true trilogy, unlike so many multi-volume novels that are called trilogies these days. Did you originally set out to write three related but [...]

October 22, 2007 | 0 Comments More
Tad Williams interview

Tad Williams interview

chronicles: To begin with Tailchaser’s Song: Why cats? TAD WILLIAMS: About that time I had moved in with my someday-to-be-ex-wife, and she had cats. I was amused and horrified by them. I’d never lived with cats before. chronicles: As a first-time novelist, were you surprised by Tailchaser’s popularity, here and abroad? Tad Williams: I was [...]

August 23, 2007 | 0 Comments More
Kim Harrison interview

Kim Harrison interview

chronicles: Hi Kim, and thank you for agreeing to an interview with the chronicles network. There seems to be some confusion about the most appropriate name for the genre that you’re writing for. It seems to be trailblazing beyond what we’d normally consider to be horror, and crossing boundaries of fantasy, romance, and action/adventure. The [...]

September 14, 2006 | 0 Comments More
Liz Williams interview

Liz Williams interview

chronicles: Knowing that your father was a stage magician and your mother a gothic novelist, it’s easy to recognize the magical part of your background in, say, the conjuring scenes in EMPIRE OF BONES, or to catch overtones of gothic romance in POISON MASTER — but were there any early influences or interests that might [...]

July 17, 2006 | 0 Comments More
China Mieville Interview

China Mieville Interview

chronicles: When did you start writing, telling stories, possibly with the aim of being published eventually? China Mieville:: I always loved writing, but it was when I was about 15 that I decided I’d like to do it professionally. I sent off some stories to Interzone, the British SF magazine, in my late teens, but [...]

October 2, 2004 | 0 Comments More