September 10, 2011 By Shaun Farrell
This episode is brought to you by MAYAN DECEMBER, the exciting new science fiction novel from Brenda Cooper.
Dr. Alic Cameron is a famous scientist devoted to studying ancient Mayan culture. In December 2012 she finds herself on the Yucatan Peninsula with her daughter, Nixie, fellow scholars, end of the world crazies, and even the President of the United States. It all sounds wonderful until Nixie disappears into the past. Featuring a handsome dreadlocked time-traveler, an ancient shamam, a high ranking Mayan couple, a computer nerd, and an eleven year old child, Alice must traverse the past in a search for the meaning of life and a way to save two worlds.
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http://aisfp.media.farpointmedia.net//aisfp/AISFP_136_092011.mp3
Show Notes:
Bryan Thomas Schmidt, author of THE WORKER PRINCE and creator of the Twitter #SFFWRTCHT weekly interview series, which has featured an impressive list of guests, joins us to discuss religion in science fiction, working with a new publisher, writing good characters, his love of Star Wars, starting books off with an emotional punch, and much more. Read the untwittered transcripts at Grasping for the Wind. Once THE WORKER PRINCE is available for order, which should be any day now, we’ll post it here. In the meantime, here is another of Bryan’s works:
Links to things Bryan mentioned in this interview:
http://www.jamierubin.net/ – SF writer Jamie Todd Rubin who blogs about Golden Age SF and more.
http://www.facebook.com/TimothyZahn?ref=ts – Timothy Zahn has yet to set up a website but he does have this Facebook page where he’s very active at communicating with fans
http://www.wordfire.com/ – Website of Author/Editor Kevin J. Anderson
www.bryanthomasschmidt.net/sffwrtcht – Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Chat which I host and which also has a Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sffwrtcht-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy-Writers-Chat/144219588975058
www.majipoor.com – the closest Robert Silverberg comes to an official website.
http://sciencefictionfantasybooks.net/ – Moses Siregar III’s site. He’s cohost of the podcast and author of “Black God’s War” which I highly recommend.
http://www.brenda-cooper.com/ – Author of “Mayan December” who blurbed my novel and is mentioned also above as sponsor of this episode
http://www.diminishedmediagroup.com/Home_Page.html – my publisher’s page
Podcast Purview is a column highlighting the month’s best podcasts on writing (or whatever I can get to that strikes me that month). There will be interviews with podcast hosts about their shows and instructional posts on podcast production. As an avid podcast fan, my desire for this column is to point you to some of the best lessons or interviews I’ve heard, including if they have giveaways. I’ll post twice a month, on the second and fourth weeks to separate the posts between podcasts published in the first and second halves of each month.
Starting off, Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing episode 136 with Bryan Thomas Schmidt was tremendous because of the instant chemistry he brought as an interviewee. I’d say, top guest of this round of shows – especially since it was his first time on a podcast. It was also just a well-rounded interview, ranging from discussing space opera, to how to include religion without offense, why he choose one publisher out of the four interested, his influence from Timothy Zahn and Star Wars, and enough about Bryan’s personal life that you root for his success.
