{"id":23859,"date":"2017-09-15T09:16:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=23859"},"modified":"2017-09-15T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T13:16:44","slug":"join-john-kessel-for-a-seafood-feast-in-episode-47-of-eating-the-fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/15\/join-john-kessel-for-a-seafood-feast-in-episode-47-of-eating-the-fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Join John Kessel for a seafood feast in Episode 47 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second episode of Eating the Fantastic recorded while on a meal break from this year\u2019s Readercon<\/a>—which occurred the day after my dinner with James Patrick Kelly<\/a>—was with award-winning science fiction writer John Kessel<\/a>. We had lunch by the water on a warm sunny day at Bay Pointe Waterfront Restaurant<\/a> in Quincy, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Kessel’s latest novel, The Moon and The Other<\/em>, was released in April from Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. He’s a two-time Nebula Award winner, first in 1982 for his novella “Another Orphan,\u201d then in 2008 for the novelette “Pride and Prometheus.\u201d He set a new record with that second award, in that the 26 years between the two was (at the time) the longest gap for a winner in Nebula history. His short story “Buffalo”—one of my all-time favorites in or out of genre, and one which I reread often—won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award in 1992.<\/p>\n

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We discussed why he suddenly has two novels coming out within a year two decades after his last one, how attending the 1969 St. Louis Worldcon changed his life, the ways in which his objections to “The Cold Equations” and Ender’s Game<\/em> are at their heart the same, his early days attempting to emulate Thomas M. Disch, the time-travel short story he couldn’t whip into shape for Damon Knight, which author broke his 26-year Nebula Awards record for the longest gap between wins, the secret behind the success of his many collaborations with James Patrick Kelly, and more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can share some quahogs with us—<\/p>\n

1) Subscribe over at the iTunes store<\/a>, where you can also find all 46 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Use the show’s RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> to download the episode to any device you’d like.<\/p>\n

3) Or use the the embed below to listen right here.<\/p>\n