Science Fiction/Fantasy Archive
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Celebrating Dawn by Octavia Butler
To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Octavia E. Butler's novel Dawn, author N. K. Jemisin speaks about the novel's significance and how Butler paved the way...
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Meet Elizabeth Hand
"I'm very interested in exploring the edge. And I'm very interested in the people and artists who live on that edge." In this video, award-winning modern fantasy writer Elizabeth Han...
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Science Fiction vs. Fantasy
“Science fiction is the literature of the possible. Fantasy is the literature of the impossible.” Join Alan Dean Foster, Patricia C. Wrede, Barbara Hambly, Ellen Datlow, and John Jakes as they discuss...
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Meet Jonathan Carroll
“A lot of people . . . read because it’s comfortable. They don’t like to be jolted or jarred. But I think that in art itself one of the great pleasures is to be jolted and jarred.” Jonatha...
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Meet Ellen Datlow
“I am the gatekeeper and also the quality-control manager for fiction,” says science fiction master Ellen Datlow. Datlow has edited many anthologies that introduced genre-bending authors such as Joyce...
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Brak the Barbarian by John Jakes
“I created Brak for the fantasy magazines because there weren’t enough Conan stories to go around.” Brak the Barbarian is one of the original characters from the sword and sorcery genre, popular in th...
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Meet Octavia E. Butler
"As a child, she said she wanted to be a writer, and they said, you can't be a writer. Black women aren't writers." Octavia E. Butler wrote speculative fiction that urged readers to ...
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On Worldbuilding
Worldbuilding: a practice used by fantasy and science fiction writers to construct alternate worlds, complete with imaginary cultures, creatures, histories, maps, geographic systems, etc. Writers Alan...
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Meet Patricia C. Wrede
"If I stayed in financial analysis, I really wasn't going to have the opportunity to write about dragons." Once a financial advisor, Patricia C. Wrede risked everything to fol...
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Alan Dean Foster: Fantastic Worlds
"I consider myself a traveler who writes rather than a writer who travels," says Alan Dean Foster, who has written dozens of science fiction and fantasy novels. It's no surprise that an a...
