SF Signal interviews Djibril al-Ayad

SF Signal interview Djibril al-Ayad: Djibril al-Ayad is general editor of The Future Fire, an online magazine of social-political speculative fiction. In the past, TFF published themed issues on Feminist SF and Queer SF, and two guest-edited, themed anthologies are currently in development:Outlaw Bodies, themed around trans, queer and disability issues with a cyberpunk flavor, edited by...

Monday Original Content: An Interview with Roberto Mendes (Portugal)

This week, Charles Tan interviews Portuguese editor Roberto Mendes about his new anthology, Vollüspa, genre fiction in Portugal, and more! Hi Roberto! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. First off, could you tell us about your latest project, Vollüspa? Hi Charles, it is always a pleasure to do this kind of interviews. Last time we’ve done...

Interview with Zen Cho

Zen Cho is a Malaysian writer living in London. Her fiction has been featured or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, GigaNotoSaurus, PodCastle, Fantastique Unfettered, Steam-Powered II and year's best lesbian speculative fiction anthology Heiresses of Russ. She is a Selangor Young Talent Awards finalist and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. On tomorrow's World...

Maurice Broaddus interviews Ekaterina Sedia

Maurice Broaddus interviews Apex Book of World SF 2 contributor Ekaterina Sedia (author of the fantastic The Secret History of Moscow and the recent The House of Discarded Dreams): 2.  Is African folklore an interest of yours?  What made you decide to explore this for a fantasy novel?  With themes of the lingering effects of colonialism...

Lightspeed interviews Ken Liu

Ken Liu has been publishing stories everywhere, it seems - when he's not busy translating Chinese SF into English! Ken translated the Ma Boyong story, The City of Silence, for us, and has a brand-new translated story, by Xia Jia, coming next month in Clarkesworld Magazine. Lightspeed Magazine is currently featuring Ken's latest short story...

SF Signal interview Athena Andreadis

Over at SF Signal, Charles Tan interviews World SF Blog contributor Athena Andreadis: Athena Andreadis was born in Greece and lured to the US at age 18 by a full scholarship to Harvard, then MIT. She does basic research in molecular neurobiology, focusing on mechanisms of mental retardation and dementia. She is an avid reader in...

Monday Original Content: Ten years of Six Brumes

Six Brumes [Six Mists] is an independent Québecois genre publishing house helmed by Jonathan Reynolds and Guillaume Houle, based in Drummondville and Sherbrooke. I met them at Congrès Boréal (a Québecois sf and fantasy convention) this past May in Montréal, where they were celebrating ten years of existence as well as the nomination of a...

Outer Alliance Podcast interviews Zen Cho and Shveta Thakrar

The Outer Alliance Podcast interviews contributors to SteamPowered II: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories, which includes Zen Cho and Shveta Thakrar. You can listen to the interview here.

Interview with Paolo Chikiamco

While Lavie is currently away, I managed to interview Paolo Chikiamco, who recently published a steampunk comic (High Society) and an anthology on Filipino myth (Alternative Alamat) for the Kindle (disclosure: both were published by the company I work for). Hi! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. First off, what made you decide to...

Fireside Magazine interviews Ken Liu and Tobias Buckell

Fireside Magazine is running a Kickstarter drive right now and it's posted interviews with Ken Liu (who translated Ma Boyong's fiction earlier this month) and Tobias Buckell. Here's an excerpt: For Ken Liu: You also work as a translator, programmer, and lawyer. How do these things mesh, and how do they feed into your writing?...