Mary Robinette Kowal and I Talk About Books and Science Fiction and Stuff
Posted on July 21, 2020 Posted by John Scalzi 10 Comments
It’s over at Tor.com. There’s an hour-long video and also a transcript, which is probably quicker to get through and has fewer ums and aaahs in it. Because we talked for an hour, we cover lots of ground, relating to our respective new books and the current state of the genre. Go on, you know you want to click through.
“It’s over at Tor.com” Wow, how about a trigger warning? First image to mind was the DHS pulling up in unmarked vans with tear gas and rubber bullets. Shows where my mind is.
Thank you thank you thank you for providing the transcript, reading is so much quicker and easier than video-watching. Yeah, I’m a dinosaur.
Two of my favorite authors chatting! Thank you for a delightful discussion, and also for the transcript – like Hank above, I am a dinosaur.
Nice talk. Nice courteous transcript.
Like Jim and Hank, I read the transcript—because I’m a “good old American capitalist” and we like our “executive efficiency,” along with our executive stride and firm executive handshake. Listening to audio is for consumers along the roads; you know, the people we fly over.
That was a fun read. I’m in the process of rereading the Lady Astronaut series; I’m five chapters into The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon ready to go.
As to reading being what “dinosaurs” would prefer, I’m not so sure, folks. After all, the oral approach to human interaction probably goes far further back in time than the written one. Just saying…
Really enjoyed this. I watched part of it while eating dinner, then read the rest. Really engaging and delightful.
@Larsaf: Heh, a good point and a fun paradox! Writing is a fantastic technology, and seems to have been invented independently 3-4 times in vastly different parts of the ancient human world, but there isn’t any evidence of it from before about 7,000 years ago. It’s an optional cool extra thing. Spoken/signed language, hard to say, but I’ve heard estimates of 100,000 years old or more. Our brains seem to come prepared to latch onto it in infancy/early childhood, suggesting considerable evolutionary pressure.
Indeed, it is all over at tor.com.
Oh, boy.
Thank you so much for the transcript. The first level of every podcaster’s Patreon should be transcripts of all videos. I’d pay for that.
stop moving around in your chair! You’re making me queasy.