The Outspoken and the Incendiary : Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bisson, Terry.

Contributor:

Lethem, Jonathan.

Shawl, Nisi.

Hopkinson, Nalo.

Rucker, Rudy.

Coyote, Peter.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2025.

La Vergne : PM Press, 2025.

Summary:

In-depth, intense, insightful.For more than a decade, radical science fiction author and activistjournalist Terry Bisson interviewed some of the most provocative andoutspoken authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Anarchism, sexuality, creativity, and the future of humanity itself--notopic was taboo.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword: Outspeaking in Our Field

Introduction

"At the Edge of the Future"

"Fried Green Tomatoes"

"A Babe in the Woods"

"I Did Crash a Few Parties"

"Discourse in an Older Sense"

"Look For the Lake"

"Sprawling into the Unknown"

"More Exuberant Than Is Strictly Tasteful"

"I Did, and I Didn't, and I Won't"

"Flying Squirrels in the Rafters"

"Who Does the Work in a Utopia?"

"Correcting the Balance"

"Encounter with a Gadget Guy"

"I Planned to Be an Astronomer"

Reflections of a Realist

"That's How You Clean a Squirrel"

"A Lovely Art"

"Rooms Full of Old Books Are Immortal Enough for Me"

"Working the Wet End"

"Put Your Twist in the Middle"

"Get the Music Right"

"Punctuality, Basic Hygiene, Gun Safety"

"But I'm Gonna Put a Cat on You"

"Living Off the Grid"

"Radical, Sacred, Hopefully Magical"

"A Real Joy to Be Had"

"Load On the Miracles and Keep a Straight Face"

"Gear. Food. Rocks."

"The Fly in the Sugar Bowl"

"Pro Is for Professional"

"A Source of Immense Richness"

"No Regrets, No Retreat, No Surrender"

Afterword: For Terry

Elegy by Rudy Rucker

Elegy by Peter Coyote

About the Authors.

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-88-87441-24-5

OCLC:

1524423680