I relate to your comments jon on thinking I was very well read in SF and in general. Once I started watching channels such as yours I found myself thinking similarly never heard of this author , that book . The thing I’ve enjoyed more than anything is being introduced to new / old books I’ve somehow missed . Great interview many thanks🫡
Great interview! And surprisingly long and in-depth! (Something I´ve TBH missed with the one with Ken McLeod!). Christopher Ruocchio siad some very important at around 50:00 when he tlked about all those things that are maybe lost forever soon because the last witnesses of the first three generations of SF writers slowly fade away. That´s why I always recommend Phil Harbottle´s and Gary Lovisi´s channels.
Hi Thorsten. I'm finding that the interview videos get very few views relatively speaking, seems to be a pattern even on bigger channels. Most folks aren't interested. Still, i enjoy meeting the authors so that's a good enough reason. My chat with Adam Roberts will be a similar length I think. Thanks for watching 👀!
Awesome interview!👍☺️ You have to get to where Miles is born in the Vorkosigan Saga, in order to get to what makes this series special 😊 And goodness gracious, is Christopher young! He was 4 when the first Harry Potter came out! Now I really feel old...
He is outrageously young. A few people have told me to crack on with the Bujold books, I have half a dozen, but not the next few in the sequence. I'll get stuck in once I find them. Thanks for watching 👀!
ADDENDUM: I´ve got something to say about the Jack Parson/JPL connection Christopher Ruocchio mentions - one of the things that people really misunderstand about Corwleys occultism is that he was much more grounded than the media portrayed. Especially in the later years Crowley´s thought went much more in a direction that was closer to free-masonry and rosiccrucianism. It was much more about self-improvement than doing spiritual stuff. While I consider Crowley as interesting in ways, I don´t consider it a danger in society. In contrast to another connection of Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard - the founder of Scientology. In fact a surprising large number of scientists had at least a part of their life in occult directions. And in most cases those weren´t the "loonie" ones (ike certain ancient astronaut or similar stuff freaks) but respected members of the scientific community (including Nobel price winners) (Ok, that was the TLDR version now LOL)
