This week, Litopia After Dark boldly goes where no podcast has gone before (note the effortless Roddenberry reference!) as we consider Arthur C. Clarke’s legacy and ponder the literary merit of SF: geek fodder or classic fiction?
We also nominate a children’s author to (literally) shoot out of the sky – and the Encyclopaedia Britannica goes luxury… but do we love it enough?
Also, on the show this week… happiness is overrated… Sebastian Horsley is banned from the USA… employees are gagged… and it’s Mac! No it’s PC! No Mac! PC! Mac!
Finally, we enquire where old books go to die and give you the sure-fire success formula for writing your non-fiction blockbuster… so don’t say we never do anything for you.
Joining Peter on the panel are Beverly Gray, Dave Bartram, Donna Ballman, Richard Howse and Eve Harvey. And if you missed the party in the uStream chat room (8pm GMT on Friday) – where were you? Come and join in next week!
Links mentioned in the show…
The death of Arthur C Clarke
Edward Rothstein in the The New YorkTimes
Merry or morose – are you a real writer?
Garrison Keillor reviews In Praise of Melancholy in the New York Times
Moral Turpitude
Sebastian Horsley in the Daily Mirror
Do writers love Macs?
Leander Kahney in Wired Magazine
My year of…
Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian
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