Conversations From the Edge: The Galaxy's Edge Interviews - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1647100119 ISBN 13: 9781647100117

Verlag: CAEZIK SF & Fantasy, 2021

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What inspired George R.R. Martin, the creator of the hugely successful Game of Throne franchise? Why did Lois McMaster, winner of six Hugo awards, start writing science fiction? How did the Vietnam war experience impact David Drake and his writing of military SF.

Get the answers to these and many other questions with these detailed interviews of some of the most iconic figures in science fiction and fantasy. These interviews show a very intimate, unknown side of these authors; many sharing very personal experiences (the good and the bad) that made them the writers that they are today.

Galaxy’s Edge magazine is known for its interviews of science fiction and fantasy professionals, and the list of writers and other professionals it has published reads like a who’s who of the field, including George R.R. Martin, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Niven, Connie Willis, Lois McMaster Bujold, David Drake and a host of other authors every science fiction reader is familiar with.

This book collects all the interviews published in Galaxy’s Edge magazine from its inception through to its 34th issue. In many cases these are expanded, original versions of the interviews published in the magazine (which had to be originally condensed for due to limitations of the magazine format).

Some of these conversations will make you think hard, some will make you smile and laugh, and some may even make you cry. But what each and every interview will do is give you a unique insight into the genre and the lives of these giants of the industry.

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George R.R. Martin is the author of one of the bestselling series in the world, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was filmed as a TV series by HBO , titled The Game of Thrones (named after one of the books in the series).

Lev Grossman of Time magazine called him the “The American Tolkien” and he listed on the annual Time list of the 100 most influential people in the world because of the global reach of his stories and how they have influenced people around the world.

George sold his first story in 1970 when he was 21, the first of m any. Throughout the seventies he wrote part-time while also working as a VISTA volunteer, chess director (he is an avid chess player) and teacher.

He currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with his wife Paris, where he is a major contributor to social and art projects.

Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most popular science fiction writers of today and the creator of the much beloved Miles Vorkosigan saga, one of the highest selling science fiction series of all times.

She has always been a voracious reader and has always enjoyed writing. She wrote the first three books in the Vorkosigan series before actually selling any novel to a publisher. Her first professional sale was a short story she sold to The Twilight Zone magazine.

Her awards include seven Hugos and three Nebulas and she was made a SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) Grand Master in 2020.

David Mark Weber is an American science fiction and fantasy author. He has written several science-fiction and fantasy books series, the best known of which is the Honor Harrington science-fiction series and has had a number of New York bestsellers. His books are also a regular selection for the Science Fiction Book Club.

Terry Brooks is mainly known as the writer of epic fantasy with more than 25 million copies of his books in print. As such, he is currently one of the biggest living sellers of fantasy books.

A trained lawyer, he was a practicing attorney before deciding to become a full-time writer. His first novel was the Sword of Shannara which became the basis of the series of highly popular books

Terry also authored Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace which was published with four different dust jackets.

Dubbed as “The Master of Alternate History” by Publishers Weekly, Harry Turtledove has written a number of classic bestsellers in the subgenre, including How Few Remain, The Guns of the South and The Man with the Iron Heart.

He uses his study of history (with a Ph.D in Byzantine history) to create alternate worlds in intricate detail; crafting enthralling adventures that have garnered him high critical praise as well as making him one of the most successful bestselling authors in alternate history.

Turtledove has won, or been nominated, for nearly every major award in science fiction (multiple times, for many) including the Hugo, Nebula, Sidewise (alternate history), Homer (short stories), The John Esten Cooke Award for Southern Fiction and the Prometheus Award.

Many consider him to be one of the most distinguished authors of alternate history to have ever written in that sub-genre―he is certainly one of the most critically acclaimed.

Harry Turtledove is married to novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters, Alison, Rachel and Rebecca.

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Joy Ward: How did you get started writing?

George R.R. Martin: I’ve always written. As far back as I can remember. When I was a little kid I used to make up stories about my toys and write them down. Give them all names. I had a collection of space men. I learned later they are called Miller Aliens. You can actually see them right behind your camera. Yeah, those are my original gang of Miller Aliens. They were made by a company called Miller in the 1950s and they were sold for fifteen cents apiece in Five and Dime stores like Woolworths, Kreskes, US Grants, and Big Ben’s. I would buy them for fifteen cents. I got the whole set and they were some of the best toy aliens ever produced on the basis of where they were from, like being from Mars or the dark side of the moon, but that was enough for me. I gave them all names and I decided they were a gang of space pirates. This guy was the brains of the operation and here was this lieutenant. There’s a little guy there who’s holding a weird weapon that looked to me like a drill so I said “Oh, this guy must be in charge of torture,” because he drills people with that little drill. They had weird guns and all that so I invented personalities for the whole thing and adventures of them, this gang of space pirates. I couldn’t have been more than nine or ten at that time.

I would also write monster stories that I would sell to the other kids in the projects for a nickel so I could buy a Milky Way bar. Usually, the stories were two pages long, handwritten. They had a werewolf and I would howl for them. I liked to frighten the other kids.

It was a short-lived career, though, because one of the other kids was having nightmares. His mother came to my mother and said, “Stop frightening the other kids. You can’t tell them these monster stories anymore.” So it dried up my source of extra Milky Ways and comic books.

JW: What did you do then?

GRRM: I just went back to not scaring the other kids for a few years. I read a lot. Books were my comic books.

At a certain formative age one of my mother’s friends gave me a Scribner’s hardcover copy of Have Space Suit, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein. That, of course, is still one of my favorite science fiction books; one of the great science fiction books of all time. Up there with the best of Heinlein, I think, even though it was part of his juvenile series. It works for adults too. I can still read that book with pleasure.

That got me into reading science fiction. I had my dollar a week allowance so I had to decide, because paper books were thirty-five cents, did I want to take the equivalent of three comic books and spend it on one paperback? It was a hard decision to make sometimes. You had to figure out these budgets. Well, there’s a new Spiderman and Fantastic Four but oh, look at this: here’s a Robert A. Heinlein I haven’t seen or an Andre Norton or A. E. van Vogt. The Ace Doubles. I liked the Ace Doubles because you got, for thirty-five cents, you got two stories. The Heinlein Have Space Suit, Will Travel, which was actually a beautiful first edition Scribner’s hardcover, I read that to pieces. For a decade it was the only hardcover book I owned because we didn’t have much money.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CAEZIK SF & Fantasy
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1647100119
• ISBN 13: 9781647100117
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 266
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