During Readercon, you got to share Thai food with Resa Nelson, eat a full Irish breakfast with Jeffrey Ford, and down donuts with a parade of 15 writers, editors, and fans. Now it’s time to say farewell to Readercon with a visit to The Lobster Stop in Quincy, Massachusetts for (what else?) lobster rolls … and F. Brett Cox.

Brett co-edited (with former Eating the Fantastic guest Andy Duncan) Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (which featured a story about Randy Newman by yours truly!), and has had fiction, poetry, essays, and reviews appear in Eclipse Online, War Stories, Century, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Postscripts, and many other venues. He’s also hard at work on a book-length study of Roger Zelazny for the University of Illinois Press.

Over lobster rolls, we talked of the debate we witnessed between Isaac Asimov and Harlan Ellison in 1974 at our joint first Worldcon, how the Connie Willis story “A Letter from the Clearys” made the scales fall from his eyes, why George Saunders is his “favorite contemporary American short story writer,” and more.

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And as for the food pics, well, since Brett and I both had lobster rolls, and you can see his up top, there isn’t much more to share. But here’s a closer shot of mine.

However, there’s is an additional photo to show you which is relevant to this episode. One thing Brett and I talked about was the 1974 Worldcon, which was the first for both of us, so below are images of how we looked back then, atop a shot taken 40 years later at the 2014 Worldcon.

Haven’t changed a bit, right?

Next up for Eating the Fantastic, the first of five episodes recorded at the recent Kansas City Worldcon, featuring Hugo Award-winning author David D. Levine, whose first novel, Arabella of Mars, was released just one month prior to our conversation.

Coming up after that, it’s on to Adam-Troy Castro, Alyssa Wong, Kathleen Ann Goonan, and Robert Reed, plus a few surprise guests I hope to record during next weekend’s Baltimore Book Festival. Subscribe now so you don’t miss them!