Vonda N McIntyre

[Pixel]

I'm delighted to say that Vonda N McIntyre, author of the novelisations of The Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock and the Voyage Home, plus the two original Trek novels The Entropy Effect and Enterprise the First Adventure, plus a Hugo and Nebula award winner in her own right for Dreamsnake and The Moon and the Sun, recently consented to be interviewed for my website.

http://www.geekchocolate.co.uk/inde...vonda-n-mcintyre&catid=47:interview&Itemid=62

 

[ryan123450]

Good site, thanks for the link!

 

[Drago-Kazov]

Does she talk about her weird Star Wars book?

 

[Greg Cox]

Cool! Vonda was actually one of my instructors at Clarion West.

 

[Pixel]

Yes, Drago, she does talk about Crystal Star briefly.

Greg - lucky man!

And Ryan - thank you! Check out some of the other interviews we've done if you're interested - novelists Joe Haldeman (The Forever War), Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon) and Christopher Brookmyre (Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks), major science fiction author Alastair Reynolds (Revelation Space), actors Rory McCann (Game of Thrones), Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica), Terry Farrell (Star Trek), Thomas Dekker (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Dichen Lachman (Dollhouse), the science communicator Professor Jim-Al-Khalili (Atom), the Astronomer Royal Lord Martin Rees, head of BBC Science Andrew Cohen and the directors Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project) and Jon Wright (Grabbers), and we're currently preparing our coverage of the Edinburgh Book Festival. Don't like to name names until it's on the dictaphone, but we got a few good names lined up.

It's been a busy couple of years over at Geek Chocolate!

 

[Pixel]

Okay, I said I didn't want to name names, but the first interview took place today, so I can.

Although I won't get the chance to transcribe it immediately as I have theatre reviews to write up, today I met with writer Hannu Rajaniemi to talk about his first novel The Quantum Thief and the forthcoming sequel, The Fractal Prince, among other things.

And once the book festival starts, well, all going well, much more will be coming soon!

 

[Drago-Kazov]

those are some interesting names up there. Are these interviews podcasts?

 

[Pixel]

'Fraid not.

Although they were all recorded on my dictaphone, most of the files are on my latop that died, and I've not had the chance to attempt tot retrieve them.

Often the quality isn't great - Robin Ince, Jon Wright and Robin Hardy were both recorded in noisy bars, Richard Morgan and just yesterday Hannu Rajaniemi were recorded when I took them to lunch, so it's just transcriptions. I also never asked them for permission to release the original files, just the tidied up versions.

Yeah, I know, reading, how old fashioned. I'm such a luddite. I even review books from paper copies with scribbled post-it notes stuck to the relevant pages.