Chatting Science Fiction, Jim Freund
Chatting Science Fiction, Jim Freund
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Chatting Science Fiction
Selected Interviews from Hour of the Wolf

Author: Jim Freund

Narrator: Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury

Unabridged: 15 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Skyboat Media

Published: 06/14/2016

Synopsis

This collection of interviews and chats is culled from some of the more recent episodes of the world’s longest-running radio program on speculative fiction, Hour of the Wolf, produced and hosted by Jim Freund since 1974. Many of these recordings were made at conventions, the Nebula Awards, some with the audience, and some in studios. Collectively, these interviews make up a road tour of some of today’s greatest voices in speculative fiction.The list of interviewees in order of appearance is: Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Samuel R. Delany, Cory Doctorow, Ray Bradbury, Nalo Hopkinson, Peter S. Beagle, China Mieville, Orson Scott Card, Lucius Shepard, Nancy Kress, Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Genevieve Valentine, Susanna Clarke, and Connie Willis.

About Jim Freund

Jim Freund has been involved in producing radio programs of and about literary sci-fi/fantasy since 1967, when he began working at New York City’s WBAI-FM at age thirteen. He has been sole host of the radio program, Hour of the Wolf, since 1974. Over the years, he has produced myriad radio dramas and lost track long ago of how many interviews and readings he has conducted. His work has been twice nominated for and once a winner of the Major Armstrong Award for Excellence in Radio Production. He is also the current producer and executive curator of the New York Review of Science Fiction Readings. Learn more at http://hourwolf.com and on Facebook.

About Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American author of novels, children’s books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry, literary criticism, and essays. She was widely recognized as one of the greatest science fiction writers in the history of the genre. She won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards on several occasions, as well as the National Book Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, and many other honors and prizes. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

About Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012), one of the most popular science fiction writers in the world, wrote more than five hundred short stories, novels, plays, and poems. He won many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, the O. Henry Memorial Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the PEN Center USA West Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, he was the recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tom on January 06, 2019

This is a series of interviews of great science fiction authors by radio host Jim Freund. The interviews are for the most part interesting and have given me a list of new authors and books to check out. Freund's interviews are more like conversations than interviews which ramps up the enthusiasm of......more

Goodreads review by Pearse on December 18, 2017

I listened to a few hours of Hour of the Wolf on audiotapes I got from the public library. I did this while I played video games. I didn't much like Hour of the Wolf, because I didn't like Jim Freund's style of interviewing and his back-and-forth with his guests. But hearing Le Guin and Robison and......more

Goodreads review by Andy on November 23, 2019

Collection of interviews by Jim Freund, specifically informed, amiable and flexible. Noted SF prose names: sometimes veering accidentally into fan clique. O. S. Card was as base as expected, Samuel R. Delaney also egotistical, though not consciously so. (Hope I've not drummed myself out of high soci......more

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