Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy will be interviewing Catherynne Valente, so if anyone has any questions they’d like us to ask her, feel free to suggest them.
Science fiction author and podcaster
Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy will be interviewing Catherynne Valente, so if anyone has any questions they’d like us to ask her, feel free to suggest them.
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy is a podcast hosted by author David Barr Kirtley and produced by Lightspeed Magazine editor John Joseph Adams. The show features conversations about fantasy & science … Read more
My grandfather Roger Barr passed away early this morning at the age of 98. He was my mom’s father, and was my last surviving grandparent. He was being cared for by my uncle Steve (his son) and aunt Denice — both medical professionals — and was still sharp and good-humored in his final days. Yesterday […]
I'm not actually Derren Brown says
Well, in addition to all of your other questions you could ask her to name a few “do”s and “don’t”s of writing a decent sex scene. What the main difficulties and trappings are, show vs. tell, how to handle POV, etc.
Also, since her use of language is so masterful, could you ask her to maybe comment a bit on the relationship between the “literary” and the “genre” categories of (science-)fiction? There seems to be a certain blurring of those going on these days…