Dark Worlds Podcast

Robert J Sawyer has been called the Dean of Canadian Science Fiction. He has won the Hugo Award, the Nebula award, the John W, Campbell award, the Robert A. Heinlein award and more Aurora Awards than anyone else in history. He is a member of the Order of Canada as well as a member of the Order of Ontario. Robert J Sawyer talks about his 25th published novel, the Downloaded, as well as his career as a writer of science fiction.

G. W. Thomas and M. D. Jackson talk with Oliver Brackenbury, the publisher of New Edge Sword and Sorcery magazine. We talk about the ongoing funding campaign, how he managed to convince Michael Moorcock to write a tale for the first issue and what exciting new developments there will be as the magazine continues.

We talk with Jason Waltz from Rogue Blades Entertainment about his upcoming Sword & Sorcery anthology, NEITHER BEG NOR YIELD. G.W. Thomas and M.D. Jackson are joined by Jason, Jeff Stewart, Steve Goble and John C. Hocking.

David Gerrold has been writing science fiction for the last 55 years. From the original Star Trek TV series with his screenplay for "The Trouble With Tribbles", to the animated Star Trek, Land of the Lost and other television scripts, to classics of the genre like When Harlie was One, The Man Who Folded Himself, Yesterday's Children, to his Nebula and Hugo award winning The Martian Child David's writing career has been varied and unique. It's a wide-ranging conversation about his experiences as a writer. his influences, his experiences as a father and now as a grandfather. He shares his views on publishing, on technology and on being a human being. It is an intriguing, fast moving and and spirited conversation.

In our final Sword & Sorcery Roundtable of the year, G. W. Thomas is joined by authors Michael Ehart, Joel Jenkins and author and editor of the magazine Tales from the Magician's Skull, Howard Andrew Jones to talk about the future of the Sword & Sorcery genre. It's another lively discussion which ranges from the origins of the genre to an imaginary 2050 and speculation about what the genre will become.