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The Outspoken and the Incendiary: Interviews with Radical Speculative Fiction Writers

by Terry Bisson

Conversations at the edges of speculative fiction

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Conversations at the edges of speculative fiction

Terry Bisson’s collected interviews bring together writers whose work and public voices intersect with questions of politics, imagination, and social change. Across the conversations, subjects range from anarchism and sexuality to creativity and humanity’s future, alongside lighter prompts such as cars and free-association games. The long-form format makes the writers’ lives and ideas the book’s organizing thread, while its broad roster gives the collection the scope of a gathering across generations of speculative fiction. New contributions accompany material drawn from PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in interviews with speculative fiction writers
  • Those exploring political ideas and creative practice through writers’ conversations
  • Fans of the authors named in the collection

Themes

Speculative fictionPolitics and activismSexualityCreativityHumanity’s future

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Book overview

In-depth, intense, insightful.


For more than a decade, radical science fiction author and activist journalist Terry Bisson interviewed some of the most provocative and outspoken authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Anarchism, sexuality, creativity, and the future of humanity itself--no topic was taboo. Bisson's prankster spirit also shone through as he quizzed his subjects about what cars they drove, played free association games, and created an atmosphere of two old friends having intimate late-night chats. Collected from PM Press's award-winning Outspoken Authors series for the first time, The Outspoken and the Incendiary showcases insightful and long-form explorations into the lives and minds of some of today's most politically charged fiction writers.


"PM's Outspoken Authors series looks almost like a science fiction Who's Who or Hall of Fame, except that I included myself. Because I could." --Terry Bisson


Words and Thoughts By: Eleanor Arnason, Terry Bisson, Michael Blumlein, John Crowley, Samuel R. Delany, Cory Doctorow, Meg Elison, Karen Joy Fowler, Eileen Gunn, Elizabeth Hand, Cara Hoffman, Nalo Hopkinson, James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel, Paul Krassner, Joe R. Lansdale, Jonathan Lethem, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken MacLeod, Nick Mamatas, Michael Moorcock, Paul Park, Gary Phillips, Marge Piercy, Rachel Pollack, Rudy Rucker, Kim Stanley Robinson, Carter Scholz, Nisi Shawl, John Shirley, Vandana Singh, and Norman Spinrad, with additional new contributions by Nalo Hopkinson, Jonathan Lethem, Nisi Shawl, Peter Coyote, and Rudy Rucker.

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