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Virtual Memories Show #145:
\nKathe Koja and John Clute<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I started writing stories as soon as I knew what stories were. I taught myself to type when I was 8 years old, because I couldn’t write fast enough.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Illustration\"<\/a>Novelist and immersive theater director Kathe Koja<\/a> joins the show to talk about her new novel, The Bastards’ Paradise<\/a>, the arc of her career from splatterpunk (hey, it was the ’90s) to YA to the 19th C. romance of her Poppy<\/em> trilogy, the meaning of Detroit, her life-changing experience at a staging of Sleep No More<\/a>, the joys (and perils) of defying genre conventions, the epiphany of brutally murdering Tweddle-Dee, saving her first novel (from when she was 14) to feel better about herself, why great poetry is like IV drugs, and more!\u00a0Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“I think the story of the wrongness of science fiction is like an exposure of the nature of homo sapiens on this planet. Science fiction goes wrong because we go wrong, and it does it with great clarity. I want a record of that and I want to see how we go wrong and how we can learn.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then John Clute<\/a> returns to the show to talk about establishing the Clute Science Fiction Library @\u00a0Telluride<\/a>! Also, he uses the word “haecceity<\/a>” in conversation, which is a Virtual Memories first! Go listen!<\/a>
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We talk about some books and a couple of movies in this episode. Here’s a list of them:<\/p>\n