I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Politics, News, News Commentary, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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I’m just going to say it. This may be the most fun I’ve ever had on a podcast. Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in a row. No one had ever done that before. Jemisin is also the first author to have every book in a single series win the Hugo for best novel, and the first black author to win a Hugo for best novel. She’s a badass. What makes Jemisin’s work so remarkable is the power and detail of the worlds she builds for her characters, and her readers, to inhabit. In this podcast, she shows us how she does it: Jemisin teaches a world-building seminar for sci-fi and fantasy authors, and here, she leads me through that exercise live. It’s a master class not only in building a new world but in understanding our own. You don’t want to miss this. Recommended books: The Murderbot Diaries series from Martha Wells Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's late. You're almost home after catching that concert you and your friend's
0:04.7	nag tickets to with MX months ago. You're all speechless from the last hour
0:08.8	spent singing your hearts out and the only thing playing in the car is the last
0:12.7	song of the night on a full blast in your head. Admit it. You want it stuck there.
0:18.7	The live version you can't get anywhere else. Looks like you're getting goosebumps
0:23.2	all over again. When the night's a hit that's when you're with MX. American
0:28.0	Express don't live life without it.
0:30.0	Where are you? Asteroid City from director Wes Anderson. Welcome to your star
0:35.2	gazes and space cadets. What are those pulses indicate? The beeps and blips we
0:39.3	don't know. There's an alien that actually happened. This June placed all
0:44.5	witnesses under a group arrest. How long can they keep us in Asteroid City? I'm
0:48.2	not worried. I like aliens. Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks.
0:53.2	What a strange experience this is. Asteroid City in cinemas June 23. Book
0:58.8	tickets now. Revealing the performance for writers is a necessity for them
1:04.8	because you've got to be able to see behind the curtain in order to write the
1:08.9	curtain. So for writers they don't have the luxury of living with the
1:13.5	performance or just the mask over a thing. You've got to understand the inner
1:17.6	workings of people.
1:31.1	Hello and welcome to this our client show on the box media podcast network. About a
1:34.2	year ago one of you emailed me to say I should check out the speculative fiction
1:38.2	writer Nora Gemisett. She had just won back-to-back Hugo Awards for the first two
1:41.9	books of her broken Earth trilogy. She's the first black writer to ever win a
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