{"id":10519,"date":"2017-08-21T20:43:36","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T00:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10519"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T16:09:46","slug":"episode-232-gordon-van-gelder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-232-gordon-van-gelder","title":{"rendered":"Episode 232 – Gordon Van Gelder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show 232:
\nGordon Van Gelder<\/a><\/p>\n

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“For years, my basic rejection letter would use ‘alas,’ and the SF community picked up on that and started calling them ‘alas-o-grams.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Editor\/publisher Gordon Van Gelder<\/a> joins the show to talk about his career in the science fiction and fantasy fields. We get into publishing F&SF Magazine<\/a>, coping with burnout, balancing the demands of art and business, exploring the differences between editing for magazines vs. anthologies, trying to avoid disruption, handling diversity issues without implementing a quota, figuring out the dystopian theme of his current run of anthologies, dealing with the cultural, um, norms of stories of past decades, avoiding the perils of chasing “name” authors and rejecting a story by Ray Bradbury, making the shift from print to online, watching new writers develop a strong voice, working with the necessary egotism of writers, explaining how the internet has wrecked SF\/F criticism, and more!\u00a0Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy his new anthology, Go Forth And Multiply: Twelve Tales of Repopulation<\/a>\"\" (Ramble House)!<\/p>\n

“The best stories transcend race and gender. . . . On the page, everyone is black and white.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n