{"id":23983,"date":"2017-10-20T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T14:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=23983"},"modified":"2017-10-20T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T14:21:12","slug":"bask-in-basque-beef-stew-as-eating-the-fantastic-turns-50-with-guest-xia-jia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/20\/bask-in-basque-beef-stew-as-eating-the-fantastic-turns-50-with-guest-xia-jia\/","title":{"rendered":"Bask in Basque beef stew as Eating the Fantastic turns 50 with guest Xia Jia"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems like only yesterday I asked Sarah Pinsker to be my guinea pig for the first episode<\/a> of a new podcast. Can it really be time to for me to invite you to eavesdrop on the 50th episode of Eating the Fantastic?<\/p>\n

Amazingly—yes, it can! <\/p>\n

Here we we are, more than 20 months later, and those of you who’ve followed my journey have listened as I\u2019ve shared at times full meals—at times a donut, during my two lightning<\/a>–round<\/a> episodes—with more than 75 guests. And the feasting\u2019s not over yet!<\/p>\n

This time around, I’m inviting you to join me and my guest for lunch during Worldcon at Parrilla Espa\u00f1ola<\/a>, the oldest Spanish restaurant in Helsinki. <\/p>\n

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And who is<\/em> this episode’s guest?<\/p>\n

Xia Jia, whose short stories have been published in Nature<\/em>, Clarkesworld<\/em>, Year’s Best SF<\/em>, Science Fiction World<\/em>, and many other venues. She\u2019s won five Galaxy Awards for Chinese Science Fiction as well as six Nebula Awards for Science Fiction and Fantasy in Chinese. But her science fiction skills have been visible on more than just the page, because she directed the 2007 science fiction film Parapax<\/em>, in which she also acted, appearing as three different identities of the protagonist across parallel universes.<\/p>\n

We discussed how reading science fiction gave her the courage to take risks; what it means when she says she writes not hard SF, nor soft SF, nor slipstream, nor cyberpunk, but \u201cporridge sci-fi;\u201d why Ray Bradbury matters so much to her; the challenges of writing in Chinese, writing in English, and translating from one language to the other; our mutual love for Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler<\/em>; how The Three-Body Problem<\/em> changed the perceptions of science fiction in China, why she has faith she’ll eventually get to Mars, and more.<\/p>\n

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

1) Subscribe at the iTunes store<\/a>, where all 49 previous episodes are still available.<\/p>\n

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

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