In this 85th episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, I present my thoughts and reflections after attending the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association 2023 58th Nebula Awards conference in Anaheim, California.
Rather than a minute-by-minute recap of the conference and the 58th annual Nebula Awards ceremony, this is a more personal recollection of my experience, as well as musing on What It All Means (including, if I may be so bold, the very purpose and meaning of science fiction and fantasy in the twenty first century).
Those recollections and musings come as more-or-less verbatim reading of an early draft of the Sonitotum article on the same subject. Listen and read!
Also! Big news:
This episode was recorded on May 23th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
- My creative services for authors and other creators.
- A post I wrote about my mother, whose death was one of the many things that happened in the sixteen years since attending my last in-person events.
- The books and other written works I’ve released in that time and before.
- The “slight return” episode of Sonitotum that re-launched the podcast in 2022.
- The Alliance of Independent Authors.
- The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. Consider joining!
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- The late George Perez.
- Voice actor Matthew Mercer.
- The Infinity Award for Octavia Bulter.
- Shadow of the Outsider is my work in progress, an epistolary fantasy novel and the follow-up to Light of the Outsider and “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.”
- Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” is my ongoing serial fiction project available exclusively to members of my mailing list community of friends and fans. Get in on it for free!
- Next episode will feature my conversation with Canadian fantasy author Krista Walsh.
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