Postcards from a Dying World David Agranoff

In this episode, I welcome a local author, co-chair, and founder of our Horror Writers Association chapter and I got to work closely with Kristina on the Stokercon we hosted here in San Diego. It was at Stokercon when a copy of this book ended up in my bag of books.

we talk about Kristina’s origins in writing, horror, and how she ended up a part of the flagship con in the genre. The main focus however is her exciting new collection Shrouded Horror: Tales of Uncanny.



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In 1970
Avon Books published a landmark anthology “Science Fiction Hall of Fame”
featuring 16 classic short stories that represent landmark tales of the genre.
The stories were voted on by the members of the new (at the time in the late
60s) organization Science Fiction Writers of America. In this series, I will be
joined by a panel of different guests to break down these stories and talk
about the authors in the book.

In this
episode, I am joined by two experts on the history of Science Fiction.
Returning to Postcards Alec Nevala-Lee – Asimovebiographer and the author of
Astounding (A history of the golden age SF) and Seth Heasley host of The Hugo award-nominated
podcast The Hugos There.

The story
we are covering is the 1941 classic “Nightfall” by Issac Asimov This story
about a mad scientist and a pocket universe is here in its original form if you
have never read it.

Read it
here:

https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v28n01_1941-09_SLiV/page/n7/mode/2up

 

•You can
find my books here:

 

Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW

 

 

 

•And me
here:

 

Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff

 

Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor

 

Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/

Hey folks at the recent international gathering of horror writers Stokercon, I was a part of a panel on eco-horror and Climate Change moderated by Carol Gyzander. I think this wide ranging conversation will be fun for my listeners. You know me so let's introduce the other writers.



Victoria Nations is a biologist with over 20 years working with Florida ecosystems and environmental regulations, and a horror writer whose weird stories often feature monsters and wild, liminal places."



Bram Stoker Award finalist Carol Gyzander writes and edits horror and science fiction—and is certified as one of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Leader



Gillian King-Cargile is the author of several stories for adults and children. communications coordinator at Argonne National Laboratory, Gillian specializes in sharing information about supercomputing, environmental science, and bioscience.



Danger Slater is the Wonderland Award-winning writer of I Will Rot Without You, Moonfellows, He Digs a Hole, and other dark weird horror.



Chris Panatier has been a trial lawyer in environmental cases for two decades and is also the author of The Phlebotomist and several others from Angy Robot Books.

After every season of Star Trek, I gather a panel of nerds together and we talk about the highs and lows of the season that just ended. This time we talk about the fifth season of Star Trek Discovery. Returning for our 10th episode breaking down a completed season of Trek.

Joining me as always are my bridge crew vocal Star Trek fan Sara Lynn Michener, and Musician/ filmmaker Issa Diao.

In this episode, we will break down the ins and out of the final Star Trek Discovery Season. Sara with a bird on her dead, Issa doesn’t know who the Breen are, the future of Star Trek, the improvement of the writing in Discovery.

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Joining me on this episode of PFDW is author, writer and film director Izzy Lee who joined me on episode 121 to promote her Kickstarter campaign to film her first feature-length film House of Ashes. We talk about that film as it is now in post-production. This time Izzy is here is talk about her first novel I Can See Your Lies from Dark Hart Books, an imprint of Dark Matter Ink. Most of the conversation is spoiler-free, at the end I give warning.



Izzy Lee was named as one of A.V. Club's 10 female filmmakers to hire, Izzy Lee is a director on the rise. Her award-winning tales have screened at major international genre festivals such as Fantasia, Overlook, Morbido, FrightFest, Fantaspoa, Brooklyn Horror, Boston Sci-Fi, Boston Underground, Chattanooga, and more. She's directed nearly two dozen shorts. From 2022-2023, Lee earned five Certificates of Completion from a variety of Sundance Collab’s Directing and Producing courses. Additionally, Lee shadowed director Adam Egypt Mortimer on the SpectreVision feature Archenemy.



Her production company can be found here:

https://www.nihilnoctem.com/

Returning for his fourth appearance on the podcast Bird Box author Josh Malerman is back! This time we talk about Josh’s five-novella collection Spin a Black Yarn. To me, there is no more consistent voice in horror. An outside observer who doesn’t actually read his work and judges by the mainstream -meme culture of Bird Box might not have any idea just how creative, and experimental he is. I was a huge fan of Malerman’s last novella collection Goblin, which we talked about in a previous episode.



Like that episode, this one is a nuts-and-bolts discussion about the narrative construction behind these stories. We also have a little non-spoiler discussion about Josh’s forthcoming novel Incidents Around the House. This is a must-listen for Malermaniacs and anyone interested in writing weird or horror fiction. We mostly avoid spoilers but an hour in I give a full spoiler warning.



•You can find my books here:



Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW







•And me here:



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Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor



Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/