Reality Break Podcast

Our guest this episode is speculative fiction author Kelley Eskridge. This interview was recorded in May 2007 following the release of her short story collection Dangerous Space. She has been published in such venues as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Century, Pulphouse, the anthology Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, and Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times. Her story “Alien Jane” was adapted for television on the series Welcome to Paradox. Her debut novel Solitaire was published in 2002 and was a New York Times Notable Book, a Borders Books Original Voices selection, and was nominated for the Nebula, Endeavour and Spectrum awards.

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Kelley Eskridge links:

• The official Kelley Eskridge website
• Kelley Eskridge’s blog
• The Bookslut review of Dangerous Space
• Kelley Eskridge books at Powells.com

 

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Our guest this episode is the late Robert Jordan. This nterview was recorded in Atlanta GA in October 1994, when he was on book tour with Lord of Chaos, the sixth Wheel of Time book.

Robert Jordan was most well known for his Wheel of Time novels, but he also wrote seven Conan novels which were collected in The Conan Chronicles and The Further Chronicles of Conan. The Wheel of Time series began with The Eye of the World and the most recently published book is the eleventh volume Knife of Dreams . The Wheel of Time series has always been published by Tor books. The twelfth and final volume of the series is scheduled to be published in 2009 and will be completed by fantasy author Brandon Sanderson.

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Robert Jordan links:

• Dragonmount, a Wheel of Time community
• The Dragonmount hosted Robert Jordan blog
• Tor Book’s Robert Jordan site

 

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Our guest this episode is Cory Doctorow. This is the first interview recorded for this program back when this project was first coming together. I sat down with Cory at Orycon 2006 and we discussed fandom and his upbringing in it, the intersection of SF and cyberculture, and how fantastic literature has become the new mainstream and influenced the world we live in.

Cory Doctorow is one of the co-editors of Boing Boing. He has published the novels Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe, and Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town - all from Tor Books. He has also published the story collections a Place So Foreign from Four Walls Eight Windows and Overclocked from Thunder’s Mouth Press. IDW Publishing has put out the comic book adaptation series Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales of the Here and Now, and his newest book is the young adult novel Little Brother from Tor books.

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Cory Doctorow links:

• Cory Doctorow’s personal site
• Cory’s Little Brother page

 

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Welcome to the first episode of Reality Break! In order to make this a special one, our premier interview is with a giant in the field of graphic literature who sadly is no longer with us. In 1998 I interviewed Will Eisner on his then current graphic novel A Family Matter . I consider this one of the high points of the series and of my interviewing career as a whole. Even though I felt like a scared kid who had no business in this conversation, Mr. Eisner was very kind and easy to talk to. As a teenager I had met Mr. Eisner at a comic convention in 1984 and he must have talked to me for 10 minutes, telling me jokes and flipping through my stack of Will Eisner’s Quarterly issues and pointing out things he particularly was proud of. He was a true class act and is deeply missed by everyone.

Will Eisner was one of the true founders of the comic book industry. He created or co-created many Golden Age characters such as Blackhawk, Doll Man, Lady Luck and Mr. Mystic but his most enduring creation is the Spirit. Currently a feature film of the Spirit is in production, being directed by Frank Miller. Later in his career, Will Eisner pioneered the graphic novel format and in fact he coined the term to describe his 1978 book A Contract With God. He was active in graphic literature up until his death in 2005, producing such notable work as Last Day in Vietnam, The Dreamer, and The Plot.

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After many delays for reasons large and small, the Reality Break podcast will be launching this weekend! We are not fooling around here so the first show will be a huge one, featuring an archive interview with the late great Will Eisner. The show will be published over the weekend, so if you want to get ready for that you can subscribe now either in iTunes or directly via RSS. I couldn’t be more excited about this, so welcome aboard as this train leaves the station!

This is a brief introductory episode to explain what the program is about, the history of Reality Break as both a radio show and a podcast, and what to expect from upcoming shows. Thanks for checking it out.

 

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Here is a promo about the new program with the theme music and full production. It is reasonably short at 1:07 and anyone that wants to play it in their show is certainly welcome to. This promo as a whole is licensed Creative Commons. You are, of course, free to play it in your show (that’s, like, the point of it) and I’m willing to beg you to do so. Thanks!

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 License.

 

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