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

593. Roger Zelazny's Writing Advice (with Warren Lapine)

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

David Barr Kirtley

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4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Warren Lapine joins us to discuss editing the book On Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Roger Zelazny. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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who both just signed up this week to support us on Patreon. So big thanks again to everyone

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who's contributed. We really appreciate it. All right, so now let's get to our show.

0:31.2

Thank you. Hi, I'm David Barker-Kurtley, author of the book Save Me Please and other stories. And welcome to episode

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593 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy. Our guest today is Warren Lapine, who joined us back in

1:01.7

episode 534 to discuss his book, Imr's Las, a collection of hundreds of letters written by

1:07.2

legendary fantasy and science fiction author Roger Zelasney.

1:14.4

Warren is also the author of the short story collection just like the Jetsons.

1:19.4

And together with Roger's son Trent Zelasney, he edited the book Shadows and Reflections,

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a Roger Zelasny tribute anthology.

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And in this interview, we'll be discussing Warren's new book on writing science fiction and fantasy by Roger Zelasney,

1:28.3

which collects 20 articles that Roger wrote between 1964 and 1994. And now here's our interview

1:34.9

with Warren Lapine. All right, so we're here with Warren Lapine. Welcome to the show. Thanks for

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having me again. Okay, so you just published a book called On Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Roger

1:47.3

Zelasney.

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So how'd this book come about?

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Well, I mean, I've been aware forever that he had written these articles because I'm an avid

1:55.5

Zelazni collector.

1:56.7

In fact, I have over 450 unique items in my Zelazni collection.

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