Exploring Other Worlds w/ Becky Chambers
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We chat with award-winning science fiction author Becky Chambers! We define space opera, talk about building big worlds without confusing your audience, and creating “cozy science fiction”.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of colonialism, imperialism, military, environmental disaster, climate change, and ableism.
Guest
Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others. She has two new works coming out in 2021: The Galaxy, and The Ground Within (the fourth and final Wayfarers novel), and A Psalm for the Wild-Built (the first of her Monk and Robot novellas).
Housekeeping
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:04.1 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.9 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:09.0 | And this episode 238, exploring other worlds with Becky, motherfucking Chambers. |
| 0:15.3 | I don't know if that's Becky's legal middle name, but oh my God, Becky Chambers. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm so excited. Anyone who has listened to this |
| 0:22.2 | podcast and heard my recommendations for books knows how much I love Becky Chambers and the Wayfarer |
| 0:28.0 | series as a whole. We love her books so much. And anytime you talk to someone who's writing, |
| 0:32.8 | you really enjoy, at least for me, I'm just kind of like, oh my God, I hope my questions are okay. Oh, my God. I hope that I'm taking up her time. But we had such a nice time with Becky. She was so easy to talk to. |
| 0:42.3 | I think we covered some fantastic stuff that I didn't even like, I love when a conversation |
| 0:47.0 | goes somewhere. I didn't expect it to go. And looking back, it's like, this is exactly what I wanted to talk about. And that's how I feel about this episode. So I cannot wait for all of you to hear it. Yeah, I think everyone is going to have a good, good time |
| 0:57.6 | because I know we had a really good time interviewing Becky. We did. And we had a really good time |
| 1:02.7 | when we opened our inboxes and saw that there were two new patrons. Thank you so much, Alex and |
| 1:06.9 | Rebecca. We so appreciate you, along with our supporting producer-level patrons, Alicia Allison, Brian, Deborah, Hannah, Jane, Jessica Kins, Jessica Stewart, Justin Keegan, |
| 1:15.7 | Neaselkyn, Megan Moon, Phil Fresh, Polly, Captain Jonathan, Malachi, Cosmos, Sarah, Scott, and Zazi, |
| 1:22.1 | and Julia. Don't forget it. The Legend Level patrons. Audra, chimera, or change, Clara, Drew, Jack Marie, J. |
| 1:28.2 | Bay, Bay, Kee, Lada, Morgan, Morgan, H, Nekro royalty, Taylor, and B.M.Y. These are all people that I would be so |
| 1:34.4 | glad to share a spaceship hurtling through space with. Like, I don't think that we'd have any problems |
| 1:39.9 | at all. No, me neither. Well, Julia, it has been very hot here in New York. What have you been reading, |
| 1:45.2 | watching, or listening to beat the heat? So I just finished another book and shout out to my |
| 1:51.6 | cousin who listened to this show. And he's like, every time you make a recommendation for a book, |
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