250. Elizabeth Hand, author of Fire and Errantry
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast
David Barr Kirtley
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2017
⏱️ 89 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr |
| 0:16.4 | Kirtley. |
| 0:19.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 250 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. |
| 0:24.0 | Our guest today is Elizabeth Hand. |
| 0:26.0 | She's the author of fantasy and science fiction novels such as |
| 0:29.0 | Waking the Moon, Mortal love, and Illyria, |
| 0:31.0 | as well as the cast Neari series of noir detective novels starting with generation loss. |
| 0:36.0 | Her book refused have appeared in the Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Salon, The Village Voice, and the magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. |
| 0:44.0 | And we'll be speaking with her today about her short story collection arantry, and about her new book, Fire, |
| 0:49.0 | the latest volume in the outspoken author series from PM Press. |
| 0:52.0 | And now here's our interview with Elizabeth Hand. in the outspoken author series from PM Press. |
| 0:52.8 | And now here's our interview with Elizabeth Hand. |
| 0:56.6 | All right, so we're here with Elizabeth Hand. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:59.4 | Thank you very much, David. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm delighted to be here. |
| 1:02.2 | OK, so you write in fire that your fictional town of Comensic Village was inspired by the real life town of Katona, which is where I grew up. |
| 1:08.0 | Oh my God, you're kidding me. |
| 1:10.0 | Wow, did you recognize it? Well yeah it's funny I mean I can mention some specific |
| 1:18.9 | things but in particular the rundown print shop next to the train tracks. I know exactly what that is. I'm talking about, sorry, I'm talking about your story |
| 1:26.8 | errantry. Yeah. The illustration short story collection. I have to ask you, is the print shop still there? |
| 1:33.0 | It's still there, but it's all boarded up and everything. |
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