{"id":13896,"date":"2020-09-22T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=13896"},"modified":"2020-09-22T12:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T16:08:29","slug":"episode-399-sheila-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-399-sheila-williams","title":{"rendered":"Episode 399 – Sheila Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 399:
\nSheila Williams<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>With her new fantastic short story anthology, Entanglements: Tomorrow’s Lovers, Families, and Friends<\/a> (MIT Press), editor Sheila Williams<\/a> brings together a panoply of voices to explore how technology and scientific advances have on the deepest human relationships. We talk about Sheila’s nearly 40 years editing science fiction stories at Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine<\/em><\/a>, how she manages to balance new and diverse voices with a foundation of SF’s history, how she copes with receiving ~800 stories a month (while only being able to buy 5-6), and technology’s greater role in day-to-day life and what that means for writers’ and readers’ imagination and expectations. We also get into her author freakouts (like going blank when she met Samuel R. Delany<\/a> many years ago), how her philosophy background helps her as an editor, missing cons and festivals, the challenge of editing an author in translation (in this case Xia Jia<\/a>), and more. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read Entanglements<\/a>!<\/p>\n