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Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

467. Roger Zelazny and the Chronicles of Amber (with F. Brett Cox)

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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F. Brett Cox joins us to discuss his new book Roger Zelazny: Modern Masters of Science Fiction from the University of Illinois Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy is brought to by God Bless the Dead by Evan Geller, the first book in the Klaad trilogy.

0:08.0

Indie reads calls the book an entertaining read with engaging characters and an intricate plot with plenty of action and plot twists.

0:15.0

Learn more over at the goatrodooblog.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

0:37.7

Hello, and welcome to episode 467 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. Our guest today is F. Brett Cox. He's the Charles A Dana

0:46.2

professor of English at Norwich University and author of the Short Story Collection,

0:50.3

The End of All are exploring. Together with Andy Duncan, he edited the anthology Crossroads,

0:55.0

Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic,

0:58.0

which includes stories by Michael Bishop,

1:00.0

Kelly Link, and Jean Wolf.

1:02.0

And we'll be speaking with him today about his new book,

1:03.8

Roger Zilasny, Modern Masters of Science Fiction.

1:07.8

And today's show is brought to you by God Bless The Dead

1:10.0

by Evan Geller, the first book in the Kodat trilogy, a series of speculative novels combining

1:15.4

hard science fiction with a modern day retelling of the Fenian cycle of Irish mythology.

1:20.2

And here's a description of the book.

1:21.8

It says,

1:23.3

When a struggling grad student develops a practical method

1:25.9

to interpret meaning in brain electrical activity,

1:28.6

the world is confronted with the death of lies,

1:31.0

the tyranny of truth,

1:32.4

and the realization that some truths are too dangerous

1:34.6

to reveal.

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