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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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Jan 25, 2019

Gobble goat cheese fritters with <em>Beneath Ceaseless Skies </em> publisher and editor Scott H. Andrews as we discuss the treatment he received as a writer which taught him what he wanted to do (and didn't want to do) as an editor, how his time as member of a band helped him come up with the name for his magazine, why science fiction's public perception as a literary genre is decades ahead of fantasy, what it takes for a submission to rise to the level of receiving a rewrite request, the time he made an editor cry (and why he was able to do it), how he felt being a student at the Odyssey Writing Workshop and then returning as a teacher, the phrase he tends to overuse in his personalized rejection letters (and the reason why it appears so often), the way magazine editing makes him like Arnold Schwarzenegger in <em>Conan the Barbarian</em>, why writers shouldn't worry about the ratio of submitted stories to purchased ones, the reason he'll probably never edit novels, what anyone considering starting a magazine of their own needs to know, and much more.

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