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Chatting Science Fiction
- Selected Interviews from Hour of the Wolf
- Narrated by: Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury
- Length: 15 hrs and 16 mins
- Radio/TV Program
- Release date: 06-14-16
- Language: English
- Publisher: Skyboat Media
Regular price: $27.97
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Publisher's Summary
This collection of interviews and chats is culled from some of the more recent episodes of the world's longest-running radio program on speculative fiction, Hour of the Wolf, produced and hosted by Jim Freund since 1974. Many of these recordings were made at conventions and the Nebula Awards, some with audiences, and some in studios. Collectively these interviews make up a road tour of some of today's greatest voices in speculative fiction.
The list of interviewees in order of appearance is: Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Samuel R. Delany, Cory Doctorow, Ray Bradbury, Nalo Hopkinson, Peter S. Beagle, China Mieville, Orson Scott Card, Lucius Shepard, Nancy Kress, Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Genevieve Valentine, Susanna Clarke, and Connie Willis.
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