{"id":22083,"date":"2016-07-06T09:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T13:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=22083"},"modified":"2017-06-08T09:37:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T13:37:55","slug":"eating-the-fantastic-12-gene-oneill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/06\/eating-the-fantastic-12-gene-oneill\/","title":{"rendered":"Join Gene O’Neill for lunch in Las Vegas on Episode 12 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the fifth and final episode of Eating the Fantastic recorded in Las Vegas during StokerCon, I headed out to Hash House A Go Go, one of my favorite restaurants—at least in its San Diego incarnation. My breakfast there is always one of my favorite Comic-Con meals. But alas, there turned out to be more than a 90-minute wait that Sunday morning in Vegas, so I moved on to Yard House at the recommendation of my guest, Gene O’Neill, who’d eaten there earlier that weekend.<\/p>\n

Gene, with whom I attended the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, has been nominated 11 times for the Bram Stoker Award, and has won twice, in the categories of Long Fiction and Fiction Collection.<\/p>\n

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We reminisced about our shared Clarion experience way back in 1979, our reaction upon seeing a stack of Jack London’s rejection slips, the personality trait he shares with Harlan Ellison, what he learned from Carol Emshwiller, what he and Kim Stanley Robinson taught each other during their eight-hour drives to Eugene, Oregon for workshops with Damon Knight and Kate Wilhelm, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can get a seat at the table—<\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at the iTunes store<\/a>. (And why not download some of the earlier episodes at the same time?)<\/p>\n

2) Use the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> to snag episodes on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or … simply click and listen below.<\/p>\n