Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre Tor Books

It's time to break out your best 1960s-Batman graphics -- because it's an action-packed episode about ACTION!
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S. L. Huang (The Water Outlaws) explains the historical roots of Water Margin, muses on what being a stunt performer brings to writing, interrogates the ethical questions humanity has grappled with for centuries, and lets us all in on a little secret about the book...

Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle (Ebony Gate) talk about how they came to write together, why they wanted to root their series on the West Coast, and the joys of writing fun action sequences.

No third interview! Because we don't cross picket lines! But Drew does muse briefly on why this current joint strike is existentially important for all creative industries.


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Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio
Hosted by Drew Broussard
Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative
Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

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This week, we're getting our hands dirty -- it's a nature ep! Sort of! Featuring eldritch coming-of-age stories, first contact tales, and how we might re-envision ourselves as a part of this planet's ecosystem instead of somehow outside of it.
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S.L. Coney (Wild Spaces) talks about the present-tense of their novella, the power of writing about nature and a good good dog, and what we learn as we grow up.

Ruthanna Emrys (A Half-Built Garden) explains what she means by 'diaperpunk,' how she created her alien species, why it is important to add children to adventure narratives, and the possibilities we can find in genre.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Undrowned) offers reflective wisdom on how to put humanity back in sync with the natural world, of which we are (no matter how hard we try) a part.


For a full episode transcript, click here.

Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio
Hosted by Drew Broussard
Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative
Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn
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Our voyage this week takes us into the waters of fundamentalism, from a space station with the last(?) vestiges of humanity to a city in a world much like ours except for the cults and the anti-gods floating around before coming back around to our world and the mystery cult around a guy called Jesus.
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Emily Tesh (Some Desperate Glory) on preventing radicalization, lessons from history about authoritarianism, and the pleasures of in-universe non-fiction.

Vajra Chandrasekera (The Saint of Bright Doors) on *not* making a secondary world, performing some anthropology of the present day, and upending expectations in order to make his book his way.

Sophie Strand (The Madonna Secret) on interrogating the motives behind the canonical Gospels and why collective storytelling is both humanity's past and its future.


For a full episode transcript, click here.

Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio
Hosted by Drew Broussard
Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative
Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn
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Looks like Team Genre is blasting off again!
This season kicks off with an examination of hope, from a magical circus between the World Wars to a conversion camp in Montana to a globe-trotting optimist. No matter how down you might feel about the world these days, this episode will give you a little more pep in your step.
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J.R. Dawson (The First Bright Thing) talks writing about performance, the root of her Sparks, and having hope even in the face of a move out of a beloved home.

Chuck Tingle (Camp Damascus) discusses the Trinity of Maligned Genres, what he means when he says 'love is real', and rooting demons in reality.

Durreen Shahnaz (The Defiant Optimist) explains what it means to be a 'defiant optimist' and how we can take oppressive systems and make them instead work for the good of us all.


For a full episode transcript, click here.

Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio
Hosted by Drew Broussard
Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative
Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn
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What's that sound back there, in the back of your mind? Could it be... YES!Voyage into Genre is back for another trip!
Episodes air every other week beginning Weds Aug 9 -- and this season's line-up is better than ever. Maybe you can even hear a couple of guests in the static...
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For the last episode of this season, it's time to think about collections -- story collections! Even more specifically, multi-author anthologies of new (or new-to-the-readership) work! So let's take a trip to China, to Africa, and to Pasedena, CA for some thoughts on collection and curation.
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Regina Kanyu Wang (The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories) talks about the collaborative process of editing The Way Spring Arrives, considering non-dualistic ways of being, and the hope that springs from speculative fiction.

Sheree Renée Thomas and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Africa Risen) talk about their mutual appreciation, why it was time for a collection like Africa Risen, and just what it means when they say that Africa isn't just rising but that it has risen.

Melinda McCurdy (Curator, British Art at the Huntington Library) explains how she views her role as curator and the unique opportunities presented by the change-up of a famous Huntington acquisition, and how curation can change an audience's context and understanding.


Full episode transcript available here.

Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio
Hosted by Drew Broussard
Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative
Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn
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