Yog's Notebook, blog edition
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Author Interview: Mathew Russell
Mathew Russell wrote "Electric Judas", about an android's attempt to understand his creator.
Q: What's the best thing you've read recently?
A: American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Q: What motivates you to write science fiction or horror?
A: Dreams mostly, and also the ways in which the past effects the future.
Q: What's lurking under your bed?
A: The bogeyman. He's trapped beneath the rubbish I have under there and keeps yelling for someone to help him out.
Q: Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of writing and sf/horror?
A: History, Art, Technology, Music and sleeping in.
That's the last of our summer authors. We've really enjoyed the stories in this issue, and hope you will too.
Q: What's the best thing you've read recently?
A: American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Q: What motivates you to write science fiction or horror?
A: Dreams mostly, and also the ways in which the past effects the future.
Q: What's lurking under your bed?
A: The bogeyman. He's trapped beneath the rubbish I have under there and keeps yelling for someone to help him out.
Q: Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of writing and sf/horror?
A: History, Art, Technology, Music and sleeping in.
That's the last of our summer authors. We've really enjoyed the stories in this issue, and hope you will too.
Labels: interview, science fiction, sf
Friday, August 10, 2007
Author Interview: Stephen Couch
Stephen wrote "Foo Boxen", a story about putting Schroedinger's Cat to the test, which appears in our summer issue.
Q: What's the best thing you've read recently?
A: Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories
Vol. 1, by Gary A. Braunbeck: A crust of speculative fiction wrapped around a mantle of bleak, lightless despair, wrapped around a near-Pyrrhic core of hope and redemption, from one of the modern masters of the short form.
Q: What motivates you to write science fiction or horror?
A: I can't switch off the part of my brain that constantly asks, "What if...?" I think it's inextricably linked to the part of my brain that craves the Macaroni & Cheese Pizza at Cici's, because I can't seem to turn that off, either...
Q: What do you hope the future will be like?
A: I genuinely hope we can evolve out of our current cultural tendency to encourage and reward sociopathic behavior. We can be, both as a species and as individuals, so much more than just apologists and enablers for the sociologically toxic among us.
Q: What's lurking under your bed?
A: Almost always an ankle-clawing cat.
Q: Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of writing and sf/horror?
A: I run an award-winning audio drama production company, Strange Interludes; I also sing in a cover band from time to time.
Q: Do you have a website you'd like our readers to see?
A: www.stephencouch.com
Q: What's the best thing you've read recently?
A: Graveyard People: The Collected Cedar Hill Stories
Vol. 1, by Gary A. Braunbeck: A crust of speculative fiction wrapped around a mantle of bleak, lightless despair, wrapped around a near-Pyrrhic core of hope and redemption, from one of the modern masters of the short form.
Q: What motivates you to write science fiction or horror?
A: I can't switch off the part of my brain that constantly asks, "What if...?" I think it's inextricably linked to the part of my brain that craves the Macaroni & Cheese Pizza at Cici's, because I can't seem to turn that off, either...
Q: What do you hope the future will be like?
A: I genuinely hope we can evolve out of our current cultural tendency to encourage and reward sociopathic behavior. We can be, both as a species and as individuals, so much more than just apologists and enablers for the sociologically toxic among us.
Q: What's lurking under your bed?
A: Almost always an ankle-clawing cat.
Q: Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of writing and sf/horror?
A: I run an award-winning audio drama production company, Strange Interludes; I also sing in a cover band from time to time.
Q: Do you have a website you'd like our readers to see?
A: www.stephencouch.com
Labels: interview, science fiction, sf
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Author Interview: Glynn Barrass
Glynn wrote "The Necronomicon Cookbook" for the summer issue, a poem about some very curious cooking experiments.
Q: What's the best thing you've read recently?
A: Sphere by Michael Crichton - one of the the most sinister novels regarding
contact with alien life forms I've read.
Q: What motivates you to write science fiction or horror?
A: I sorely need to get what's in my head onto paper otherwise I'm sure it'll
explode.
Q: What do you hope the future will be like? Or is there something that was
predicted to happen that you wish really had? (jet cars, food pills, or...?)
A: Invasion and subjugation by evil alien overlords.
Q: What's lurking under your bed?
A: Way too much un-vacuumed dust!
Q: Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of writing and sf/horror?
A: Does sleeping count as a hobby?
Q: Do you have a website you'd like our readers to see?
A: Not yet, but I'm working on it.
Q: What's the best thing you've read recently?
A: Sphere by Michael Crichton - one of the the most sinister novels regarding
contact with alien life forms I've read.
Q: What motivates you to write science fiction or horror?
A: I sorely need to get what's in my head onto paper otherwise I'm sure it'll
explode.
Q: What do you hope the future will be like? Or is there something that was
predicted to happen that you wish really had? (jet cars, food pills, or...?)
A: Invasion and subjugation by evil alien overlords.
Q: What's lurking under your bed?
A: Way too much un-vacuumed dust!
Q: Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of writing and sf/horror?
A: Does sleeping count as a hobby?
Q: Do you have a website you'd like our readers to see?
A: Not yet, but I'm working on it.
Labels: interview, science fiction, sf
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Author Interview: Kaylea Hascall Champion
Kaylea's contribution to the summer issue is a story about first contact and hubris called "KuiperGate".
Q: What's the best thing you've read recently?
A: I really enjoyed Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende; it changed the way I look at colonial history.
Q: What motivates you to write science fiction or horror?
A: I am fundamentally motivated by ideas—speculative fiction in all its forms provides a terrific opportunity to explore and to question.
Q: What do you hope the future will be like?
A: I could get preachy or sappy about it all, but it comes down to this: I hope that the future is messy, but with clean public bathrooms.
Q: What's lurking under your bed?
A: Four half-finished novels....and they're getting hungry!
Q: Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of writing and sf/horror?
A: Most weekends will find me obsessively doing one of the following: playing computer games, digging in my chaotic garden, entertaining my dogs, or sewing fabulous new clothes for myself and others.
Q: Do you have a website you'd like our readers to see?
A: Sure, folks can go to http://www.kaylea.net.
Q: What's the best thing you've read recently?
A: I really enjoyed Ines of My Soul by Isabel Allende; it changed the way I look at colonial history.
Q: What motivates you to write science fiction or horror?
A: I am fundamentally motivated by ideas—speculative fiction in all its forms provides a terrific opportunity to explore and to question.
Q: What do you hope the future will be like?
A: I could get preachy or sappy about it all, but it comes down to this: I hope that the future is messy, but with clean public bathrooms.
Q: What's lurking under your bed?
A: Four half-finished novels....and they're getting hungry!
Q: Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of writing and sf/horror?
A: Most weekends will find me obsessively doing one of the following: playing computer games, digging in my chaotic garden, entertaining my dogs, or sewing fabulous new clothes for myself and others.
Q: Do you have a website you'd like our readers to see?
A: Sure, folks can go to http://www.kaylea.net.
Labels: interview, science fiction, sf
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Author Interview: Simon Petrie
Simon wrote "Three-Horned Dilemma", a story about a man with a triceratops problem. It appears in our summer issue.
Q: What's the best thing you've read recently?
A: My left brain reckons Nova Swing by M. John Harrison, but my right brain would go for Simon Haynes' Hal Spacejock.
Q: What motivates you to write science fiction or horror?
A: Long lists of other things I really should be doing.
Q: What do you hope the future will be like?
A: Inhabited, but some days I wonder ...
Q: What's lurking under your bed?
A: From the looks of it, a dust bunny stud farm.
Q: Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of writing and sf/horror?
A: I'm interested in (and have done research in) "astrochemistry", which sounds like sf but is probably even stranger. I also have an unhealthy interest in obscure Sixties rock groups.
Q: Do you have a website you'd like our readers to see?
A: Not a proper 'Simon Petrie' website, no. I'm a member of the Andromeda Spaceways publishing co-op, which is at http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/.
Q: What's the best thing you've read recently?
A: My left brain reckons Nova Swing by M. John Harrison, but my right brain would go for Simon Haynes' Hal Spacejock.
Q: What motivates you to write science fiction or horror?
A: Long lists of other things I really should be doing.
Q: What do you hope the future will be like?
A: Inhabited, but some days I wonder ...
Q: What's lurking under your bed?
A: From the looks of it, a dust bunny stud farm.
Q: Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of writing and sf/horror?
A: I'm interested in (and have done research in) "astrochemistry", which sounds like sf but is probably even stranger. I also have an unhealthy interest in obscure Sixties rock groups.
Q: Do you have a website you'd like our readers to see?
A: Not a proper 'Simon Petrie' website, no. I'm a member of the Andromeda Spaceways publishing co-op, which is at http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/.
Labels: interview, science fiction, sf, writer
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