{"id":26325,"date":"2019-10-04T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=26325"},"modified":"2019-10-04T08:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T12:38:44","slug":"cheryl-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2019\/10\/04\/cheryl-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Share a walnut whip with Cheryl Morgan in Episode 106 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to return to Dublin for the second of four mealtime conversations recorded during the 77th World Science Fiction Convention, following up on my dinner last episode with the Nebula Award-winning writer Lisa Tuttle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time around, you’re invited to lunch with Cheryl Morgan<\/a>, who’s a four-time Hugo Award-winning science fiction critic and publisher — first as the editor of Emerald City<\/em>, which won for Best Fanzine in 2004, followed by another for Best Fan Writer in 2009. She has also been the non-fiction editor of Clarkesworld<\/em> magazine, for which she won her third and fourth Hugo Awards in 2010 and 2011. She is a director of San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions Inc., and a founder of the short-lived Association for the Recognition of Excellence in SF & F Translation. She is a co-chair of Out Stories Bristol and lectures regularly on both trans history and science fiction and fantasy literature. She’s also a Director of The Diversity Trust for whom she run trans awareness courses. She’s the owner of Wizard\u2019s Tower Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We snuck away from Worldcon to Mr. Fox<\/a>, which appeared not only on Eater’s list of the 38 Essential Dulbin Restaurants<\/a>, but on Conde Nast Traveler’s list of 15 Best Dublin restaurants<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

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We discussed the only science fiction she was allowed to read in school as a kid, why she preferred American Marvel Comics over the British comics of her youth (and how she considers Jean Grey her big sister), the way Dungeons & Dragons made 10 years of her life disappear, how helping out on a Worldcon bid led to her meeting one of the most important people in her life, the reason deciding to go digital infuriated fanzine fandom, the legacy of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness<\/em>, how she hid behind the sofa while watching the first episode of Doctor Who (and which was her favorite Doctor), the unfortunate reason she stopped publishing her Hugo Award-winning fanzine, why I’m to blame (in part) for her first encounter with science fiction, whether the Retro Hugo awards do what they’re intended to do, the pre-history of robotics before R.U.R.<\/em>, the difficulties in judging the best translated work — and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can eavesdrop on our conversation at Mr. Fox —<\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — where I hope you’ll be tempted to download a few of the 105 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

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

3) Or check it out via the embed below.<\/p>\n