The Past, Present And Future Of Sci Fi With N.K. Jemisin

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🗓️ 3 March 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Hugo Award-winning author N.K. Jemisin talks about how all of her book ideas start with a simple question: “What if?” She also explains the unusual circumstances surrounding her Hugo Award victory and how science fiction is evolving for the better.

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0:35.3	From WB.EZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson.
0:40.3	And I'm Trisha Bobita. This week, Greta's talking to Nora Jemison, also known as NK. Jemison. Nora is the award-winning author of speculative fiction novels and stories.
0:43.3	Her most recent novel is The Obelisk Gate, which is the second book in the Broken Earth Trilogy.
0:48.3	The first book in the series is called The Fifth Season, and that actually won the Hugo Award, which is a prestigious literary science
0:54.4	fiction award. Norah became the first black person to win that award, and I talked with her
0:59.1	about the book, but also the unusual circumstances surrounding the Hugos. And we're going to play
1:03.7	a game. A game. Yes, there is a theory about science fiction books that we're actually going to
1:08.8	bring our executive producer, Joel Meyrin, to explain this theory theory because this was his, and it's a pretty good idea, but it's,
1:15.4	it's a theory of one. No one else believes this theory, but here's the theory, that titles of
1:21.5	science fiction novels are almost always interchangeable with the names of bands, especially metal bands. Basically, science
1:29.3	fiction novels and bands are 100% compatible. All right, give us an example. Here's a familiar
1:35.6	one. Ray Bradbury's classic, Fahrenheit 451. Everyone knows that book, right? But you can also
1:40.7	imagine Fahrenheit 451 being the name of a band. And in fact, if you Google it, you will get, I think, New York City hardcore band and maybe a German band, but the site is in German.
1:50.7	So I don't know anything more about that band.
1:52.2	But I think that, you know, Fahrenheit 451.
1:53.9	Temperatures make good band names.
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