Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

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Samit Basu / Joma West Aug 10, 2022

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Strap on your shiny sunglasses: we’re headed to near-future Delhi, an upscale apartment block where no one touches one another, and then right back here to this most pivotal moment for humanity.

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Samit Basu (The City Inside) talks about being told your book is a dystopia when you didn’t write it that way and what it means to be on social media in the age of scripted reality.
Joma West (Face) shares how the ethics of technological child-rearing can be made even scarier with some language choices and why she structured her novel in overlapping points-of-view.
Douglas Rushkoff (Survival of the Richest) offers some thoughts about how ordinary people can retake control of the technology that’s meant to help us instead of letting the uber-rich exploit both it and us.

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Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio

Hosted by Drew Broussard

Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative

Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

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Sarah Gailey / T. Kingfisher Jul 27, 2022

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It's haunted house day on our voyage -- hope you packed your flashlights...

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Sarah Gailey (Just Like Home) explains why under the bed is the scariest place in the house, defying the pull of easy narrative, and why you should have empathy for haunted houses.
T. Kingfisher (What Moves the Dead) talks about the fascinating world of fungi, historical gender fluidity, and why she loves a re-telling of a classic tale.
Brett Bertolino (VP, Director of Operations for Eastern State Penitentiary) shares behind-the-scenes insights into how one of the most popular haunted house attractions in the country has stayed fresh for over 30 years.

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Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio

Hosted by Drew Broussard

Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative

Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

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Season Two Announcement! Jul 20, 2022

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Voyage into Genre is back for season two! Host Drew Broussard welcomes a new batch of Tor authors with new books, new locations, and new surprise guests!

Have your tickets ready and step right this way. New episodes every other Wednesday, starting July 27th.

if you're enjoying the show, give us a review! tell your friends! and please stand clear of the closing doors!

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Ryka Aoki / Andrea Hairston Sep 22, 2021

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Ryka Aoki talks about why Light From Uncommon Stars blends genres, about how writing poetry helps with writing food, and why Lindsey Stirling is awesome.
Andrea Hairston talks about finding hope in Master of Poisons, the genius of Michael Ende, and how theater (and physics) affect her writing.
Tor Books Editorial Director Claire Eddy talks about the past and the future of the genre and why a bigger tent is always better.

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Thank you for listening! See you again soon!

Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio

Hosted by Drew Broussard

Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative

Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

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S. Qiouyi Lu / Silvia Moreno-Garcia Sep 08, 2021

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S. Qiouyi Lu talks aboutfast-food surveillance, writing in different genres, re-examining history, and aer mosaic novella In the Watchful City.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia talks about coming back to a novel (that's coming back into print), why characters are more interesting than world-building, and how Germán Robles helped inspire Certain Dark Things.
Emily Hughes, site editor for Tor Nightfire, explains why horror matters and why scaring yourself is actually an evolutionary survival trick.

Full episode transcription available here.

Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio

Hosted by Drew Broussard

Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative

Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

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Charlie Jane Anders / Becky Chambers Aug 25, 2021

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Charlie Jane Anders talks about her essay collection Never Say You Can't Survive, how to write in dark times, the retrospective opportunities offered by a story collection, and gleefully smashing the bounds of 'genre' distinctions in her new YA trilogy.
Becky Chambers talks about her fridge-meal novella A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the pleasures of tea-drinking, and why she has hope.
Drew reads an excerpt of Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus as a beacon against dark times.

Full episode transcript available here.

Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio

Hosted by Drew Broussard

Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative

Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

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Nghi Vo / Shelley Parker-Chan Aug 11, 2021

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Nghi Vo talks about fan-fiction, how she came to write her Gatsby retelling The Chosen and the Beautiful,and how humanity is rooted in storytelling.
Shelley Parker-Chan talks about retelling history in She Who Became the Sun, why she doesn't think too much about craft, and why she needed to get out of the world of diplomacy and politics.
Stephanie Ybarra, artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage, talks about being an artistic leader and why we need to interrogate and redefine our ideas about the 'classics.'

Full episode transcript available here.

Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio

Hosted by Drew Broussard

Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative

Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

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Bethany C. Morrow / TJ Klune Jul 28, 2021

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Bethany C. Morrow talks about how A Chorus Risessprang from a need to correct some assumptions, writing a follow-up that isn't a sequel, how weird family can be, and re-thinking what 'world-building' actually means.
TJ Klune talks about Flash Fire's teens and superheroes and teen superheroes, responding to the real world in fiction, and navigating grief in Under the Whispering Door.
Naomi Wiens, LMFT talks about therapy and working with teenagers.

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Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio

Hosted by Drew Broussard

Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative

Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

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T. L. Huchu / P. Djeli Clark Jul 14, 2021

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Edinburgh, Scotland (20xx) to talk to T. L. Huchu about The Library of the Dead, the dystopias around us, scientific magic, and making up a new music craze.
Cairo, Egypt (1912) to talk to P. Djèlí Clark about A Master of Djinn, counterfactuals, returning to a world, and the writer's toolkit.
New York, USA (2021) for a quick city stroll with Kamau Ware, founder of the Black Gotham Experience.

Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre is a co-production with Lit Hub Radio

Hosted by Drew Broussard

Audio engineering + production by Stardust House Creative

Music by Dani Lencioni of Evelyn

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Trailer Jun 09, 2021

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We're going on a voyage... a VOYAGE INTO GENRE!

Beginning July 14th, join host Drew Broussard for conversations with Tor Books authors about their latest work, the future, and the future of genre.

Follow @torbooks / @tordotcompub / @tornightfire to make sure you don't miss a thing!

Music by Evelyn

Production and Engineering by Stardust House Creative