{"id":23752,"date":"2017-07-21T08:03:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T12:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=23752"},"modified":"2017-07-21T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T12:03:43","slug":"down-drunken-noodles-with-george-r-r-martin-in-episode-43-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/21\/down-drunken-noodles-with-george-r-r-martin-in-episode-43-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Down drunken noodles with George R. R. Martin in Episode 43 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the final day of the second annual StokerCon—which took place in Long Beach, California aboard the now permanently docked Queen Mary—I disembarked with one of the Guests of Honor to record the fifth and final Eating the Fantastic episode of the weekend. We headed to Thai District<\/a>, which serves dishes from Northern Thailand, as opposed to most of the other Thai restaurants in the area which tend to focus on that country\u2019s central region.<\/p>\n

I’ve known this episode\u2019s guest in the flesh for decades, and on the page for even longer, going back to my earliest days in comics fandom. George R. R. Martin is a multifaceted talent, with a list of credits so vast, many might only be aware of a fraction of them.<\/p>\n

Some of might know him from the superhero short stories such as \u201cManta Ray Meets the Executioner\u201d he was publishing in the \u201960s in one of the greatest fanzines of all time, Star Studded Comics<\/em> (which is where, as a young teen, I<\/em> first encountered him), or as the creator and editor of the long-running Wild Cards<\/em> series of mosaic, multi-author novels, some may know him better from such award-winning short fiction as \u201cSandkings\u201d and \u201cThe Pear-Shaped Man,\u201d or novels like Fevre Dream<\/em> and The Armageddon Rag<\/em>, while still others might know him best from his TV work … like … you know … The Twilight Zone<\/em> and Beauty and the Beast<\/em>—and don’t forget Max Headroom<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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We discussed why he was annoyed Marvel Comics printed his letters but DC never did, the reason Gardner Dozois was responsible for his first science fiction short story sale, how the rock ‘n’ roll novel Armageddon Rag<\/em> got him a job on the rebooted Twilight Zone<\/em>, what he learned from the arc of Stephen R. Donaldson’s career, how losing the John W. Campbell Memorial Award got him his first editing gig, why he almost became a realtor, the time Harlan Ellison convinced him to apply to be the editor of Analog<\/em>, and more. PLUS: Hear a snippet from an interview I did back in 1993 in which he makes an amusing admission about “a fantasy novel I’ve been working on off and on for awhile.”<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us for our Thai feast—<\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at the iTunes store<\/a>, where all 42 previous episodes can still be downloaded.<\/p>\n

2) Grab the episode for the device of your choice by using the show’s RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply listen here via the embed below.<\/p>\n