{"id":34879,"date":"2024-03-08T09:21:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T14:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=34879"},"modified":"2024-03-08T09:21:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T14:21:55","slug":"glenn-hauman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/08\/glenn-hauman\/","title":{"rendered":"Nosh pastrami with Glenn Hauman in Episode 220 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I realized Glenn Hauman<\/a>, with whom I\u2019ve been crossing paths for decades on the con circuit, was going to be a guest at Farpoint<\/a>, I thought it was about time I captured some of his wit and wisdom for you. Here\u2019s just a small taste of what Glenn\u2019s been up to over the years — <\/p>\n

He\u2019s an electronic publishing pioneer who founded BiblioBytes in 1993, which resulted in him being dubbed a “young Turk of publishing” in The New York Observer<\/em>. He was an editorial consultant to Simon & Schuster Interactive for many years, during which time he contributed to many Star Trek<\/em> CD-ROMs, such as the Star Trek Encyclopedia<\/em>, the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion<\/em>, and the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion<\/em>, plus additional projects for many other properties. He\u2019s published fiction in the Star Trek<\/em>, X-Men<\/em>, and Farscape<\/em> franchises.<\/p>\n

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The particular piece of fiction which has probably brought him the most fame is Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers: Creative Couplings<\/em>, co-authored with Aaron Rosenberg, which featured the first Klingon\/Jewish wedding ceremony, and ended up getting him mass media coverage from outlets such as NPR and the Jewish weekly newspaper The Forward<\/em>. In 2011, Glen teamed up with Peter David, previous guest of the podcast<\/a> Michael Jan Friedman, Robert Greenberger, and Aaron Rosenberg to launch an electronic publishing endeavor called Crazy 8 Press<\/a>. He\u2019s also a columnist over at ComicMix.<\/p>\n

We discussed how he shook things up during the earliest days of electronic publishing, the embarrassing high school newspaper writings of Ted Chiang, the way the assembly-line nature of comics keeps many creatives from seeing the big picture, why he’s nobody’s first choice for anything but everybody’s second choice for everything, his pre-teen encounters with another pre-teen fan who became a Marvel Comics Executive Editor, the philosophical question he asked actor Michael O’Hare just before Babylon 5<\/em> began to air, the lunch that led to his first published short story being about the X-Men, what visiting Don Heck’s house at age 12 taught him about artists and taking an art class from John Buscema at age 13 taught him about himself, the plot of the Warren Worthington novel he never got a chance to write, the free speech lawsuit which had him going head to head with the Dr. Seuss estate, plus much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us at The Essen Room<\/a> in Pikesville, MD — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — or wherever<\/a> you choose to consume your podcasts — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 219 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

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

3) Or simply use the embed below.<\/p>\n