January 2019: Kim Stanley Robinson, Howard Hendrix, Cecelia Holland
Recorded live at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco on Sunday, January 20, 2019. There are three author readings followed by a discussion session. Hosted by Terry Bisson.
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is an American writer of science fiction. He has published 19 novels and many short stories but is best known for his Mars books. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes running through them and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award.
Robinson’s work has been labeled by The Atlantic as “the gold-standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing.” According to an article in The New Yorker, Robinson is “generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers.”
HOWARD HENDRIX – Dr. Hendrix holds a Ph.D. and MA in English Literature from UC Riverside, and teaches at CSU Fresno, His novels Lightpaths, Standing Wave, Better Angels, and Empty Cities of the Full Moon are available on Audible.com. The Labyrinth Key, and The Spears of God were published by Ballantine Del Rey.
Howard is a prolific short fiction writer, with the collection Human in the Circuit/Depth of Perception available from Borgo Press. His work appears in anthologies and in magazines, particularly in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, where he serves as a recurring guest editorialist. Dr. Hendrix served as Western Regional Director and two-term Vice President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
CECELIA HOLLAND is an American historical fiction author, also well-known for her science fiction novel, Floating Worlds. Her first novel, The Firedrake, was published in 1966, and Holland has been a full-time professional writer ever since. Her character-driven plots, scrupulously researched, are often developed from the viewpoint of a male protagonist.
With plenty of action (her battle scenes are noteworthy for their bottom-up viewpoint and understated verisimilitude), her work focuses primarily on the life of the mind—whatever that might mean in a particular culture—and especially on politics, in the broadest sense, whatever politics might be in a monarchical, feudal or tribal society. Holland lives in rural Humboldt County, CA. For ten years, Holland taught creative writing classes at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, CA. She was visiting professor of English at Connecticut College in 1979. Holland was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981–1982.
Produced by Merin McDonell. Recorded and engineered by Rusty Hodge.
Music by Haaj https://soundcloud.com/thehaaj
KIM STANLEY ROBINSON is an American writer of science fiction. He has published 19 novels and many short stories but is best known for his Mars books. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes running through them and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award.
Robinson’s work has been labeled by The Atlantic as “the gold-standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing.” According to an article in The New Yorker, Robinson is “generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers.”
HOWARD HENDRIX – Dr. Hendrix holds a Ph.D. and MA in English Literature from UC Riverside, and teaches at CSU Fresno, His novels Lightpaths, Standing Wave, Better Angels, and Empty Cities of the Full Moon are available on Audible.com. The Labyrinth Key, and The Spears of God were published by Ballantine Del Rey.
Howard is a prolific short fiction writer, with the collection Human in the Circuit/Depth of Perception available from Borgo Press. His work appears in anthologies and in magazines, particularly in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, where he serves as a recurring guest editorialist. Dr. Hendrix served as Western Regional Director and two-term Vice President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
CECELIA HOLLAND is an American historical fiction author, also well-known for her science fiction novel, Floating Worlds. Her first novel, The Firedrake, was published in 1966, and Holland has been a full-time professional writer ever since. Her character-driven plots, scrupulously researched, are often developed from the viewpoint of a male protagonist.
With plenty of action (her battle scenes are noteworthy for their bottom-up viewpoint and understated verisimilitude), her work focuses primarily on the life of the mind—whatever that might mean in a particular culture—and especially on politics, in the broadest sense, whatever politics might be in a monarchical, feudal or tribal society. Holland lives in rural Humboldt County, CA. For ten years, Holland taught creative writing classes at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, CA. She was visiting professor of English at Connecticut College in 1979. Holland was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981–1982.
Produced by Merin McDonell. Recorded and engineered by Rusty Hodge.
Music by Haaj https://soundcloud.com/thehaaj
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