{"id":10556,"date":"2017-09-11T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T01:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=10556"},"modified":"2017-12-23T11:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T15:31:07","slug":"episode-235-liz-hand-and-john-clute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-235-liz-hand-and-john-clute","title":{"rendered":"Episode 235 – Liz Hand and John Clute"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Memories Show 235:
\nLiz Hand and John Clute<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I think of a collector as a gardener, rather than someone who just buys books. Like gardeners, they do a lot of murdering. They cull books.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s another Readercon<\/a> episode! First, Liz Hand<\/a> rejoins the show for a little conversation about what she’s been reading lately (it’s some creepy stuff, of course), the regenerative aspects of Readercon, why the novella is ideal for dark\/spooky fiction, and whether the attendee wearing an ASIA t-shirt is doing so ironically. Then John Clute<\/a> talks about the ruins of futurity and the launch of the Clute Science Fiction Library<\/a> at Telluride Institute. We get into the need for visual presentation and accessibility of original books in their context (including dust jackets), his transition from book accumulator to collector, the externalization of one’s mind into one’s library, why he doesn’t write fiction, the Easter eggs he sneaks into the Science Fiction Encyclopedia<\/a>, why Galaxy Quest<\/em> is the best Star Trek<\/em> movie (except for Wrath of Khan<\/em>), reaching a uniform degree of incompletion, generational shifts in SF\/F, and the sneaky adoption of Fantastika. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go buy Liz Hand’s new collection, Fire.<\/a>\"\", and her Cass Neary novels: Generation Loss<\/a>\"\", Available Dark<\/a>\"\", and Hard Light<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“Most scholars, academic institutions, libraries are not interested in context. In that sense, the Science Fiction Library at Telluride is transgressive.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n