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The new episode of Voices In Your Head is now out, and features my interview with hard SF writer James P. Hogan. The show can be streamed or downloaded in
MP3 or AAC.
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail393.htm l
Information about the series as a whole and links to all the interviews are at the series page on IT Conversations.
http://www.itconversations.com/series/voicesinyour head.html
The abstract from this episode follows:
James P. Hogan and host Dave Slusher discuss how the film 2001 started Hogan on
a career as an author, on his relationship with Marvin Minsky and the world of
artificial intelligence, on writing about space and space travel, whether there
is a feedback loop between scientists and science fiction writers, the
post-scarcity economics of distributing entertainment online and much more.
Author James P. Hogan is the author of nearly 30 books. His first novel Inherit
The Stars, published in 1977, was the beginning of his popular "Giants" series
of novels which continues in 2005 with Mission To Minerva. His most recent
published book was the nonfiction work Kicking The Sacred Cow from Baen Books,
in which he tackles the orthodoxies of modern science.
He began his career as an electronics engineer of digital control systems and
eventually moved into sales and training, working for companies such as DEC and
Honeywell. Following his dissatisfaction with the ending of the science fiction
film 2001, an office bet to "write a better ending" led circuitously to a career
as a full-time writer. Over his nearly thirty years as an author, he has focused
on hard science fiction. His work features space faring societies, virtual
reality worlds, world shattering cataclysms and other staples of the cracking
good SF yarn. |
