Constellary Tales is a speculative fiction (SF — science fiction and fantasy) magazine and podcast. The podcast examines SF storytelling on the page and screen and addresses (not too seriously) how SF intersects culture and society. Selected episodes feature interviews with writers and others in the SF world as well as narrated stories from Constellary Tales magazine.
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Contents
Author, teacher, and Lone Star State original Arianne “Tex” Thompson joins our discussion.
(00:00) A smart house outlasts humanity in Ray Bradbury’s 1950 short story “There Will Come Soft Rains.”
(24:05) Longswords and lockpicks! Poisons and ponies! Tex describes these and other hands-on experiences at the annual Writers in the Field event in Dallas.
(40:55) Spoiler-free recommendations: “Speech Sounds,” Assassin’s Apprentice, Junction
Thanks to Tijana Stojković for reciting the poem by Sara Teasdale.
Links
- “There Will Come Soft Rains” 1984 animated short by Tulyakhodzayev
- Arianne “Tex” Thompson’s author website, The Tex Files
- Writers in the Field
Get more Constellary Tales podcasts, and read original sf in the magazine (Issue no. 1 is now online) at constellary.com.
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