Clarkesworld Magazine - Issue 45 by www.clarkesworldmagazine.com & Nina Kiriki Hoffman & Brenda Cooper & Jason Heller

Author:www.clarkesworldmagazine.com & Nina Kiriki Hoffman & Brenda Cooper & Jason Heller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction Magazine
Publisher: Wyrm Publishing
Published: 2010-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

About the Author

Brenda Cooper has published fiction in Analog, Oceans of the Mind, Nature, and in multiple anthologies. She is the author of the Endeavor award winner for 2008: THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, and of the sequels, READING THE WIND and WINGS OF CREATION. By day, she is the City of Kirklands CIO, and at night and in early morning hours, shes a futurist and writer.

“Finding the Language I Need: A Conversation with Caitlín R. Kiernan”

by Jeremy L. C. Jones

Born in Ireland, raised in Alabama, Caitlín Kiernan now lives in Rhode Island. Each of these evocative locales has influenced her science fiction and dark fantasy novels and short stories. An early interest in paleontology, archaeology, and snakes led her to a career in paleontology and teaching.

A love of reading led her to writing fiction.

“There’s no way to come to writing unless one has first been a reader, and a careful, dedicated reader, at that. And one must remain a reader,” said Kiernan. “Everything about reading teaches me something about writing. What has it taught me in particular? Everything that I did not learn simply by living, that’s what reading has taught me about writing fiction.”

Kiernan is the author of the recent The Red Tree, six other novels, and one novelization (of the 2007 motion picture, Beowulf). Her recent short story collections from Subterranean Press Tales from the Woeful Platypus and A is for Alien will be followed up with the forthcoming The Ammonite Violin & Others and Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart.

Her tales are populated with ghouls and changelings, demon-slayers and werewolves; they are as atmospheric as narcotic hallucinations, folk tales and nightmares. At the heart of most of her books are characters experiencing existential shock and characters sorting through messy relationships.

Below, Kiernan and I talk about writing, paleontology, and finding the language she needs after all these years at the craft.

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