Mark Brand is a Chicagoland polymath: editor, writer, videopodcaster, former medical assistant. We met not long before I was a guest on the Breakfast with the Author podcast (ep. 3), with fellow Chicago writer Lawrence Santoro. Other guests: Ben Tanzer and Jason Fisk (ep. 1), Kathleen Rooney and Gina Frangello (ep. 2), and Russell Lutz, [...]
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The Big Other Interview #253: Mark Brand
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anathem, apocalyptic fiction, Ben Tanzer, CCLaP Publishing, Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, china mieville, Code 46, Cormac McCarthy, Darren Aronofsky, Death Robot, Discover magazine, George Orwell, gina frangello, Human, I who Have Never Known Men, interview, Jack London, Jacqueline Harpman, Jason Fish, Jason Pettus, Kathleen Rooney, Kipling, Lawrence Santoro, Len Nicholas, Life After Sleep, Loosed Till Dawn Are W, Margaret Atwood, Mark R. Brand, Neal Stephenson, Night Song in the Jungle, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Oryx and Crake, paolo bacigalupi, Paul Hughes, Red Ivy Afternoon, Russell Lutz, Samantha Morton, sci-fi, science-fiction, Silverthought Publishing, Sleep, Star Wars, Thank You, The City & The City, The Fountain, The Handmaid, The Handmaid's Tale, The Iron Heel, The Return of the Jedi, The Road, The Star Rover, The Windup Girl, The Year of the Flood, Time Robbins on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 4
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cherie priest, hugo awards, paolo bacigalupi, robert charles wilson on July 17, 2010 | 3 Comments »
[At last, after laying out my wares, turning in turn to Boneshaker by Cherie Priest and Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson, I finally arrive at the final novel in this threesome of Hugo nominees, The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. And at last, I hope,bring this mammoth post to some sort of conclusion ...]
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cherie priest, hugo awards, paolo bacigalupi, robert charles wilson on July 16, 2010 | 10 Comments »
[And so it goes on. Having set out my stall and considered Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, I now give a little more attention to Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson. Again, I pick up directly from where I left off last time (which, if you remember, was a passage discussing the Civil War in Priest's [...]
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cherie priest, hugo awards, paolo bacigalupi, robert charles wilson on July 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
[Yesterday I started this mammoth post on Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson and The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. Today I continue from where I left off, with rather more concentration on Boneshaker.]
Blogging the Hugos: Decline, Part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cherie priest, hugo awards, paolo bacigalupi, robert charles wilson on July 14, 2010 | 19 Comments »
When I set out to blog this year’s Hugo shortlisted novels, I imagined something conventional like a separate post on each book. For the first two books I was able to stick to that modest ambition, but the next three I read set off such resonances and cross-currents that I felt I had to read [...]