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Eating the Fantastic

I’ve been going to science fiction, fantasy, horror, and comic book conventions since I was 15, and Eating the Fantastic—a 2026 Hugo Awards finalist—attempts to replicate in podcast form one of my favorite parts of any convention—good conversation with good friends over good food. In fact, my love of tracking down that good food while traveling the world attending conventions has apparently become so well known one blogger even dubbed me "science fiction’s Anthony Bourdain." Chatting with my guests over over plates of food in restaurants relaxes them, and relaxes me as well. Food's been doing that for thousands of years, helping make conversations more intimate than they would otherwise be. Tongues are loosened, and through a strange magic, we’re no longer merely host and guest, but just a couple of friends having a meal. And though some ambient noise survives the processing, what remains in that "you are there" background is a small price for the much better picture you’ll get of my guests than otherwise. So consider it a feature, not a bug. During each episode, I'll share a meal with someone whose opinions I think you’ll want to hear, and we’ll talk science fiction, fantasy, horror, writing, comics, movies, fandom … whatever happens to come to mind. Now please pull up a chair to the table and dig in!
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Sep 15, 2024

It's time for two scoops with writer Sarah Pinsker as we discuss the origin of her ice cream collaboration with The Charmery which resulted in their book-inspired flavor, the sculpture she saw at the American Visionary Art Museum which planted a seed for <em>Haunt Sweet Home</em>, how she knew her idea was meant to be a novella and not a novel, why she prefers writing books without a contract, how multiple ideas coalesced into one, the narrative purpose of telling a story via multiple formats, how to know a character who doesn't know themselves, why you can't tell from the end product whether a piece of fiction was plotted or pantsed, Kelly Robson's theory about the Han Solo/Luke Skywalker dichotomy and what it means for creating interesting characters, why she's a fan of making promises in the early paragraphs of her stories, whether our families understand what we're writing about when we write about families, and much more.

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