Charles Yu , author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe , bring together us this week on io9 ’s Geek ’s usher to the Galaxy podcast to discuss time locomotion and parallel universe . Plus , what ’s the best time travel history ever ?
The Geek ’s Guide to the Galaxy is host by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley .
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0:00 Introduction by io9.com
0:25 Dave and John bring in themselves and the show
0:59 Dave Introduces Charles Yu and his novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe
2:22 Info about Geek ’s scout to the Galaxy
Interview : Charles Yu
3:11 Interview Begin
3:25 What books inspired Yu to become a author ? They include Asimov ’s Foundation series and Piers Anthony ’s Incarnations of Immortality
4:10 Yu ’s setting as a “ Director ” of feature films
5:24 Yu ’s first book , Third Class Superhero
6:16 Yu describes his short fiction
7:48 Memorable rejection letters
8:48 The rules of metre travel in How to last Safely in a Science Fiction Universe
10:35 The setting in How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe
12:10 How much research run into Yu ’s study .
14:05 The similarities and difference between Charles Yu the author and Charles Yu the protagonist of How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe
15:47 Any seconds thoughts about naming a eccentric after himself ?
17:07 Favorite prison term change of location chronicle ?
19:40 Douglas Adams ?
20:08 Any non - Science Fiction novel that might appeal to Science Fiction reader ? George Saunders ’ Pastoralia & CivilWarLand in Bad Decline .
20:34“Standard Loneliness Package,”Yu ’s narrative in Lightspeed Magazine
22:14 What is Yu working on now and in the time to come ?
23:15 End of consultation
23:35 Ad spot for The Rebel Prince by Celine Kiernan
24:36 David and John talk about their best-loved time travel tales
24:43 The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
26:26 The Dying Earth sub - genre of Science Fiction
26:54 “ Robot Dreams ” by Isaac Asimov
28:20 What makes a meter travel fib credible ?
28:43 “ A Sound of smack ” by Ray Bradbury
29:05 Repercussions of time travel
30:29 Would n’t time change of location drop you off in deep Space ?
30:15 Clark Ashton Smith ’s “ The Letter from Mohaun Los ”
31:43 Can you travel backward in time ? Or just forward ?
32:38 The Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells
33:54 “ The Marching Morons ” by Cyril M. Kornbluth and the pic Idiocracy
35:24 Starplex by Robert J. Sawyer
36:25 Dave explains how to meet a clip traveler !
37:45 Twelve scamp
39:01 Millennium , a picture show found on a short story by John Varley called “ Air Raid ”
40:00 Changing the past
40:29 Freejack
41:11 Stephen Hawking ’s theory on time travel . If clip locomotion survive , why have n’t we fill any time travellers ?
42:31 “ What year is it ? ! ”
43:43 Have you ever move into a metre traveler ? Is so , email us at[email protected ]
44:20 Donnie Darko . Does anyone understand it ?
46:21 The director ’s cold shoulder of Donnie Darko
49:34 Flux Capacitors ! Find out if Dave was able to convert his dad to build up one .
51:11 Should the DeLorean have had an extension overseas telegram ?
51:26 Poor George McFly
52:37 Doc Brown ’s preferred Chimpanzee ? Spaceman from Pluto ? TV pirates ? Refrigerator fourth dimension machines ? Wait , what ?
56:03 A DeLorean mod for Crysis ( PC Game )
56:38 Are hoverboards existent ?
57:17 When real life-time catches up with the predictions made in meter travel account
58:15 John does n’t think they do n’t use cassette tape in the hereafter
59:03 David wraps thing up with an extract from The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
1:00:33 Thanks for listening !
John Joseph Adamsis an anthologist , a writer , and a geek . He is the bestselling editor in chief of the anthologies By bloodline We exist , Federations , The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , The Living Dead ( a World Fantasy Award finalist ) , Seeds of Change , andWastelands : tale of the Apocalypse . His most late books are The Living Dead 2 and The Way of the Wizard , and he is currently piece several other anthology , let in Brave New Worlds and The Mad Scientist ’s Guide to World Domination . Barnes & Noble.com mention him “ the reigning king of the anthology humankind , ” and his books have been named to numerous good of the year lists . In addition to his anthology body of work , he worked for more than eight days as an editor at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , and is presently the editor in chief ofLightspeed MagazineandFantasy Magazine .
David Barr Kirtleyhas published fabrication in powder magazine such as Realms of Fantasy , Weird Tales , Lightspeed , Intergalactic Medicine Show , On Spec , and Cicada , and in anthologies such as New Voices in Science Fiction , Fantasy : The good of the Year , and The Dragon Done It . latterly he ’s contributed account to several of John ’s anthology , including The Living Dead , The Living Dead 2 , and The Way of the Wizard . He ’s look numerous writing workshop , including Clarion , Odyssey , Viable Paradise , James Gunn ’s Center for the Study of Science Fiction , and Orson Scott Card ’s Writers Bootcamp , and he carry an MFA in screenwriting and fabrication from the University of Southern California . He also teaches on a regular basis at Alpha , a Pittsburgh - domain science fiction workshop for new writers . He lives in New York .
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