Alan Dean Foster , author of Predators I Have have a go at it , link us to spill the beans about run into George Lucas , prepare uncollectible movie script , and play skin - and - seek with lethal otter .
Photograph by Mirek Srb / Shutterstock ( Note : the actual otter who tangle with Foster was a mint more forbidding in appearance . )
The Geek ’s Guide to the Galaxy is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley .
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0:00 Introduction
Interview : Alan Dean Foster
1:18 Interview start
1:23 Writing the novelisation of Star Wars
3:42 Did Foster ever take on to write it ?
4:21 Why is he now tolerate to tattle about the novelization ?
5:31 pen the novelization of Alien without knowing what the alien look like
6:26 Novelizations of bad movies
9:19 better Disney ’s The Black Hole
11:46 Foster ’s newest Scripture , vulture I Have Known
12:27 What are some of the most dangerous animals Foster ’s come across ?
15:00 Piranha - eat on otters ?
18:54 How have Foster ’s encounters with wildlife charm his fiction ?
20:42 Over - population , Science Fiction and political relation
22:40 What materialize to Foster ’s story that was once study for Dangerous Visions , edited by Harlan Ellison
24:53 indite Blue Magic , a Fantasy novel taking place whole subaqueous
28:06 The Human Blend and The Tipping Point Trilogy
30:32 unexampled and upcoming projects from Foster
32:07 End of interview
Dave and John speak about Predators and Animal Stories
32:20 piranha
37:15 Would covering yourself in mud really make you invisible ?
39:26 Predator 2
42:33 Alien vs. vulture
44:59 Jeff Vandermeer ’s Predator novel
45:22 Why wo n’t Predators kill an unarmed antagonist ?
49:19 Predators
50:40 Animals and animal characters in Fantasy fable
50:52 Brian Jacques ’ Redwall
52:17 Did Brian Jacques really fulfil Robert Stanek?Or was it all just photoshop “ magic ” ?
54:43 The Secret of NIMH and Beverly Cleary ’s Ralph S. Mouse
56:20 Watership Down by Richard Adams
57:55 Dave’s“Red Road”and“Cats in Victory ”
1:01:52 Do masses hate “ talking cat ” narration ?
1:03:05The Ursa Major Awardand “ furries ”
1:05:42 bolt of lightning
1:06:48“Sergeant Chip”by Bradley Denton
1:08:17 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
1:09:52 Pet Sematary by Stephen King
1:10:02 “ The Deathbird ” and “ A son and his hound ” by Harlan Ellison
1:12:18 Tails of Wonder and Imagination , edited by Ellen Datlow
1:12:29“The Disciple”by David Barr Kirtley
1:13:56 “ you may do anything to human beings , nobody wish . But anything happens to a cat , boy , you ’re go to hear about it . ”
1:14:15 “ Beautyland ” by Gene Wolfe
1:16:00 Show wrapping - up
Thanks for listen !
John Joseph Adamsis an anthologist , a writer , and a flake . He is the bestselling editor of the anthology By roue We Live , Federations , The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , The Living Dead ( a World Fantasy Award finalist ) , Seeds of Change , andWastelands : write up of the Apocalypse . His most late book are The Living Dead 2 and The Way of the Wizard , and he is presently piece several other anthology , including Brave New Worlds and The Mad Scientist ’s Guide to World Domination . Barnes & Noble.com cite him “ the reigning Billie Jean Moffitt King of the anthology cosmos , ” and his record book have been named to numerous best of the year list . In summation to his anthology work , he put to work for more than eight geezerhood as an editor at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , and is currently the editor program ofLightspeed MagazineandFantasy Magazine .
David Barr Kirtleyhas publish fiction in magazine such as Realms of Fantasy , Weird Tales , Lightspeed , Intergalactic Medicine Show , On Spec , and Cicada , and in anthology such as New Voices in Science Fiction , Fantasy : The good of the Year , and The Dragon Done It . Recently he ’s bestow fib to several of John ’s anthologies , include The Living Dead , The Living Dead 2 , and The Way of the Wizard . He ’s go to numerous writing shop , including Clarion , Odyssey , Viable Paradise , James Gunn ’s Center for the Study of Science Fiction , and Orson Scott Card ’s Writers Bootcamp , and he holds an MFA in screenwriting and fiction from the University of Southern California . He also instruct regularly at Alpha , a Pittsburgh - area science fabrication shop for young writers . He lives in New York .
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