Podcasts for 2007/09/27

Maybe it's because I was won over by Monte Cook's humor, maybe it's because Paul Tevis is funny, or maybe it's some combination of both but a podcast I really enjoyed last week was Have Games, Will Travel's interview with Monte Cook.

Fiction/Writing

• The Agony Column covers The Women of Mystery Book Club, Del Howison of Dark Delicacies Books, and Owen Egerton. There's also a recording of The Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretch Debate: Tachyon Publications Presents SF in SF which is moderated by Terry Bisson.
  
• The Tor Podcast has part two of its interview with Larry Niven.
• Writing for Pay with Zia Munshi.
• Word Balloon interviews cartoonist Drew Friedman and writer Allan Heinberg.
• CBC Radio interviews Matt Hughes. (From SF Signal)
• Groupee interviews Jay Lake. (From SF Signal)
• Podictionary tackles the words write, rustic, collar, wicked, and hooker.
• The Sci Phi Show talk about the religious themes in The Matrix.
• Over at Writers Talking they have a general Q&A about the craft.
• I Should Be Writing talks about what works for you as a writer.
• Actor Will Patton reads from On the Road in Penguin Podcast.
• There's a new The Signal episode that includes an interview with PJ Haarsma.
  

Gaming

• Chris Pramas of Green Ronin interviews Erik Mona!
• I'm a sucker for charities. Accidental Survivors does a special for the Canadian Cancer Society. Their latest episode is entitled History That May Be.
• All Games Considered tackles games outside of the mainstream.
• Gamer's Haven's second podcast on the Gen Con series is up! It's a big one as they interview Cubicle 7 Games, Paradigm Concepts, Ken Hite, Robin Laws, and Upper Deck.
• Geek Label Radio talks about video games.
• Pulp Gamer has a recording of the Gen Con podcast panel on game review and the interview. Speaking of interviews there's one with Mike Selinker of Lone Shark Games. Also more Gama Trade recordings, this time on hyperworking your inventory. Last but not least is a game review on Patrician.
  
• The Tome reviews the last issue of Dungeon and an interview with James Jacobs ! (It's a Paizo conspiracy I tell you with Erik Mona and James Jacobs.)
• More Gen Con interviews from the Sons of Kryos.
• OgreCave Audio Report talks about the convention season that recently transpired.
• The Durnham 3 think that size matters! (So how big is your gaming group?)
• The House of the Harping Monkey has uploaded the second part of their Shab-Al-Hiri Roach session.
• 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction is back and their latest episode covers a couple of games (probably looted from the Con season).
• Virtual Play has uploaded an entire session of Dogs in the Vineyard. Their latest episode is also up which talks about TriaD Con.
  
• Episode #12 of the Gleemax podcast is up and they talk about various Wizards of the Coast games like Goblin: The Uncivilized Game, D&D 4E, and Star Wars: Saga Edition.
• Dragons Landing continues its Campaign Creation series.
• Fell Calls interviews Tony Harrell.
• Midnight's Lair has episode 21 up.
• The Voice of the Revolution talks about Grey Ranks and has an interview with Julia Ellingboe of Steal Away Jordan.
• Fear the Boot episode 71 is entitled a wide variety of random subjects.
• The Digital Front interviews Eric Wiener of Paradigm Concepts.
• Here's a round-up of Heroic Cthulhu sessions: Dunwich (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), How to Make a Character, Star (1, 2).
  

Jack Vance Anthology

Old news by Internet standards (it was last week) and perhaps the reason I didn't originally post it before was because all I had was a few lines from George R. R. Martin's blog (that and I'm not really a big fan of Jack Vance). Anyway, the anthology seems to have an interesting line-up of writers and I'm interested in seeing Glen Cook and Jeff Vandermeer's take. Here's what's mentioned on George R. R. Martin's website:

We've assembled an all-star lineup of contributors for the book, we think. Songs of the Dying Earth will feature original stories from Dan Simmons, Robert Silverberg, Michael Moorcock, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Hand, John C. Wright, Glen Cook, Jeff Vandermeer, Neil Gaiman, Paula Volsky, Tad Williams, Howard Waldrop, Michael Shea, Mike Resnick, and a host of other terrific writers and hardcore Jack Vance junkies, some of whom offered us their firstborn children for the chance to be a part of this project. And yes, I plan on doing a story for the book myself (after I finish A Dance With Dragons). Jack Vance and his representatives have been so kind as to give us permission to use Jack's characters as well, so longtime fans can expect to appearances from Cugel the Clever, Chun the Unavoidable, T'sain and T'sais, and other favorites.