{"id":37029,"date":"2025-04-11T06:55:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?p=37029"},"modified":"2025-04-11T06:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T10:55:45","slug":"carolyn-ives-gilman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/11\/carolyn-ives-gilman\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolf down lamb with Carolyn Ives Gilman in Episode 251 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carolyn Ives Gilman was one of my earliest guests of the podcast, appearing all the way back on Episode 5<\/a>. Nine years and two days later, the night she was taking part in the latest Charm City Spec, we decided it was time to chat and chew for you again.<\/p>\n

Gilman\u2019s books include her first novel Halfway Human<\/em>, which has been called “one of the most compelling explorations of gender and power in recent SF;” Dark Orbit<\/em>, a space exploration adventure; and Isles of the Forsaken<\/em> and Ison of the Isles<\/em>, a two-book fantasy about culture clash and revolution. Some of her short fiction can be found in Aliens of the Heart<\/em> and Candle in a Bottle<\/em>, both from Aqueduct Press, and in Arkfall<\/em> and The Ice Owl<\/em>, from Arc Manor. <\/p>\n

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Her short fiction has also appeared in Analog<\/em>, Tor.com<\/em>, Lightspeed<\/em>, Clarkesworld<\/em>, Fantasy and Science Fiction<\/em>, The Year\u2019s Best Science Fiction<\/em>, Interzone<\/em>, Universe<\/em>, Full Spectrum<\/em>, Realms of Fantasy<\/em>, and others. \u00a0She has been nominated for the Nebula Award three times and for the Hugo twice. Gilman lives in Washington, D.C., and works as a freelance writer and museum consultant. \u00a0She is also author of seven nonfiction books about North American frontier and Native history.<\/p>\n

We discussed the way her ideas aren’t small enough to squeeze into short stories, how she shelved a novel she’d written because she felt her imagination at its wildest wasn’t ridiculous enough to match reality, whether our personal archives will be trashed or treasured, the reason she doesn’t feel she can teach writing, why authors need to respect what the story wants, why she’s terrible at reacting to writing prompts and how she does it anyway, how she generally starts a story not with character or plot but with setting, the ethics and morality of zoos and museums, how she manages to makes the impossible seem possible, our shared inability to predict which stories editors will want, and much more.
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Here\u2019s how you can join us for lunch at Tamber’s restaurant <\/a> in Baltimore, Maryland — <\/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 250 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