Cameron Stracher , media lawyer and author of the dystopian YA novel The Water Wars , joins us to lecture about water scarcity , brand the word “ superhero , ” and why he gets paid to look out Dog the Bounty Hunter .
The Geek ’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley .
Read on for this episode ’s fabulous SHOW NOTES !
0:00 Introduction
Interview : Cameron Stracher
1:22 Interview begins
1:29 Stracher blab out about his later novel , The Water Wars
2:03 Why write about water scarcity ?
3:01 What variety of enquiry went into The Water Wars ?
3:34 The importance of aquifer
5:21 Will Yemen be the first state to run out of water ?
6:36 How can we utilize our water supplying more sagely ?
8:03 Taking The Water Wars from a construct to a full novel
10:40 Inspiring Science Fiction author
11:50 How well have moving-picture show dealt with the theme of water scarcity ?
12:51 On the impudent side : Waterworld
13:28 Any film or boob tube interest in The Water Wars ?
13:47 The Iowa Writers ’ Workshop
15:03 What sort of cases does Stracher handle in his day job ?
15:43 How Stracher improves Dog The Bounty Hunter
16:51 Strange or notable cases
17:09 “ A band of lawyers are discomfited writers ”
18:38 Double Billing
20:16 Can you trademark a word of honor like “ Superhero ” ?
22:06 Dinner with Dad and how being a parent affected Stracher ’s life as a writer ?
23:37 The invasion of the eReader
24:52 Why is so much YA science fiction so apprehensive about the hereafter ?
26:05 What does Stracher think of recent YA dystopian novel ?
27:08 John recommends Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
27:55 Any new or upcoming projects from Stracher ?
28:50 Will there be a subsequence to The Water Wars ?
29:41 End of audience
Dave and John talk about dystopian fiction andBrave New Worlds
29:49 Actually , Waterworld did n’t fail at the box agency
31:10 Was Waterworld as sorry as we think back ?
32:16 What is dystopian fiction ?
33:12 Even Shirley Jackson ’s mamma did n’t like “ The Lottery ”
33:55 Jetse De Vries ’ Shine will cheer you up !
34:43 Why is there such confusion about the word “ dystopia ” ?
35:47 The difference between post - apocalyptic fiction and dystopian fiction
36:47 What are the “ inwardness ” stories include in Brave New Worlds ?
37:53 How ’d John decide to admit “ The Pedestrian ” by Ray Bradbury in the anthology ?
39:46The Three Californias Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
40:31 Which dystopia was the most awful ?
42:52 How many of these dystopian societies could actually chance in real life ?
43:51 “ Harrison Bergeron ” by Kurt Vonnegut , Jr.
44:26 Does dystopian fabrication need a message ?
50:17 The classic of dystopian literature and the popularity of the sub - literary genre
51:38 Which dystopian fiction should be part of the school curriculum ?
52:31Paolo Bacigalupi on Episode 2 of Geek ’s guidebook to the Galaxy
https://gizmodo.com/paolo-bacigalupi-gets-dystopic-in-episode-2-of-the-geek-5708464
54:05 Real world dystopias
54:27 State of psyche
56:35Eric Garcia on Episode 18 of Geek ’s scout to the Galaxy
57:12 Show wrap - up
Thanks for take heed !
John Joseph Adamsis an anthologist , a writer , and a eccentric . He is the bestselling editor of the anthology By Blood We Live , Federations , The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , The Living Dead ( a World Fantasy Award finalist ) , Seeds of Change , andWastelands : Stories of the Apocalypse . His most late book are The Living Dead 2 and The Way of the Wizard , and he is currently assembling several other anthology , let in Brave New Worlds and The Mad Scientist ’s Guide to World Domination . Barnes & Noble.com name him “ the reigning tycoon of the anthology mankind , ” and his leger have been named to numerous good of the year lists . In gain to his anthology work , he worked for more than eight years as an editor program at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , and is presently the editor ofLightspeed MagazineandFantasy Magazine .
David Barr Kirtleyhas published fiction in magazines such as Realms of Fantasy , Weird Tales , Lightspeed , Intergalactic Medicine Show , On Spec , and Cicada , and in anthologies such as New Voices in Science Fiction , Fantasy : The good of the Year , and The Dragon Done It . lately he ’s chip in stories to several of John ’s anthologies , including The Living Dead , The populate Dead 2 , and The Way of the Wizard . He ’s wait on numerous committal to writing workshops , include Clarion , Odyssey , Viable Paradise , James Gunn ’s Center for the Study of Science Fiction , and Orson Scott Card ’s author Bootcamp , and he entertain an MFA in screenwriting and fiction from the University of Southern California . He also teaches regularly at Alpha , a Pittsburgh - area scientific discipline fiction workshop for young writers . He hold up in New York .
Snownotes compile by podternAidan Moher
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