Salon Futura
56 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Salon is a monthly discussion about science fiction, fantasy and related literature. Each month Cheryl Morgan invites writers, editors, critics, artists and other industry professionals to talk with her about topics of interest.
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Interview - Maria Gerolemou
May 30, 2020 20:43 - 21 minutes - 50.1 MBDr. Maria Gerolemou is a Classicist based at the University of Exeter. One of her interests is in ancient automota. Here she talskto Cheryl about their joint fascination with the early origins of robots.
Interview - Anne Corlett & Kevlin Henney
April 28, 2020 16:21 - 29 minutes - 67.5 MBCheryl talks to Anne Corlett and Kevlin Henney about the new, online convention, WiFi SciFi. How did it come to be? Has it worked for audiences? What problems have theyfound with online conferencing software?
Interview - Tate Hallaway
April 28, 2020 16:18 - 37 minutes - 86.5 MBIn this interview Cheryl talks to Tate Hallaway, the mysterious, night-dwelling alter-ego of mild-mannered novelist, Lyda Morehouse. The conversation touches on Lyda's AngeLINK novels, Tate's work, and of course the newly released Unjust Cause.
Interview - Juliet E. McKenna
March 30, 2020 19:37 - 19 minutes - 45 MBIn this interview Cheryl talks to Juliet E. McKenna about the re-issue of her Tales of Einarinn series, back in print for the first time in years. Other topics discussed include free fiction for lockdown reading, book three in the Green Man series, and a potential River Kingdom novel.
Interview - Kate Macdonald
December 29, 2019 17:27 - 13 minutes - 15.3 MBKate Macdonald is the founder of Handheld Press, an innovative British small press specialising in recovering forgotten works by women writers. In this interview, first broadcast on Chery's Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio, Kate talks about why she founded the company and some of her more successful projects.
Interview - Rivers Solomon
November 29, 2019 21:25 - 13 minutes - 15.7 MBThis interview was originally broadcast on the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio in August 2018. It mainly concerns the novella, The Deep, based on the clipping song of the same name.
Ellen Datlow Interview
October 28, 2019 12:52 - 29 minutes - 67.3 MBEllen Datlow is a multi-award winning editor and is generally regarded as the top editor in horror short fiction. This interview was recorded at the 2019 Eurocon, TitanCon, in Belfast. Cheryl talks to Ellen about a range of topics including how she got her start in the business, how the industry has changed since she started, what "best of the year" anthologies mean, and who is the only horror writer ever to have scared her.
Heather Child Interview
September 28, 2019 18:41 - 18 minutes - 42 MBThis is an interview that Cheryl did with author Heather Child on the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio. The Undoing of Arlo Knott is Heather's second novel, following the successful Everything About You.
Anne Corlett Interview
September 28, 2019 18:35 - 17 minutes - 39.6 MBThis is an interview that Cheryl did on her radio show back in September 2018. She talks to Anne Corlett about Anne's debut novel, The Space Between the Stars. The conversation covers the journey to getting published, reproductive rights, and disability rights.
Regina Wang Interview
August 12, 2019 16:34 - 28 minutes - 64.5 MBThis is an interview that Cheryl did with Chinese science fiction advocate, Regina Wang, while they were at Åcon X in Mariehamn earlier this year. Here are some links to things mentioned in the interview: Ken Liu Chen Quifan Clarkesworld Magazine The Xia Jia collection Kickstarter The Wandering Earth on Netflix The Chengdu Panda Sanctuary
Remembering Diana Wynne Jones
August 06, 2019 13:20 - 28 minutes - 64.2 MBThis interview with Farah Mendlesohn & Cathy Butler was recorded at BristolCon in 2018. We are releasing it now because the conference it refers to is taking place this coming weekend (August 9-11, 2019)
Amal El-Mohtar Interview
July 22, 2019 11:51 - 24 minutes - 55.5 MBThis interview was recorded at Åcon X in Mariehamn in June 2019. Most of it was originally broadcast on the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio. This is the full version, though not being on the radio I can't include the music. The interview covers a range of issues including world politics, Brexit and poetry, but the main discussion covers This is How You Lose the Time War, the novella that Amal has written with Max Gladstone.
Maria Dahvana Headley Interview
March 19, 2019 16:23 - 23 minutes - 52.8 MBThis is an interview that Cheryl made following an event in Oxford where Maria got to talk to experts in Anglo Saxon literature about her work on Beowulf. The interview covers a number of topics, including what it is like to follow in the footsteps of Tolkien. There is also a fair amount of discussion of modern US politics, feminism, and the failings of previous translations.
Joanne Harris at FantasyCon
March 11, 2019 18:38 - 20 minutes - 48 MBThis is another interview that Cheryl did at FantasyCon 2018. It is with Joanne Harris. They talked about Joanne's career as a fantasy writer, Norse myths, her new book, and who might play Loki if her books about him ever get filmed. The Blue Salt Road is now available from good bookshops everywhere. Joanne and Cheryl also talked about the Child Ballads, which are the inspiration for some of Joanne's recent work.
Tade Thompson at FantasyCon
March 04, 2019 17:12 - 17 minutes - 40.8 MBWhile Cheryl was at FantasyCon in 2018 she caught up with Tade Thompson. Their conversation covered the success of Rosewater, the scariness of The Murders of Molly Southborne, and what it is like for black writers to live in a post-Black Panther world. A shorter version of this interview as originally broadcast on Ujima Radio Women's Outlook.
Heather Child Interview
August 07, 2018 08:54 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBThis interview from Cheryl's radio show, Women's Outlook, is with Bristol-based author, Heather Child. Heather's first novel is a fascinating science fiction look at how smart digital assistants might develop in the near future. In Everything About You the protagonist, Freya, discovers that an AI can be a very dangerous friend to have. As usual with interviews from Women's Outlook, we have had to remove the ads and music from the podcast version.
Jonathan L Howard Interview
December 21, 2017 15:40 - 19 minutes - 45.2 MBCheryl welcomed Jonathan L Howard onto her radio show to discuss his latest novel, After the End of the World. The book is set in an alternate universe in which the Nazis won World War II. There is much discussion about how this turned out to be much more topical that Jonathan expected when he wrote the book, and about the merits of Nazi-punching. After the End of the World is the sequel to the critically acclaimed Carter & Lovecraft, featuring descendants of HP Lovecraft and Randolf Cart...
Tade Thompson Interview
November 21, 2017 11:51 - 28 minutes - 64.5 MBThis is an interview that I did with Tade Thompson about a year ago when his novel, Rosewater, was first released. I ran parts of it on Ujima, but the quality of the recording was not good so I was a bit worried about putting the whole thing out. However, Rosewater has just become the first ever winner of the Best Novel prize in the Nommo Awards from the African Speculative Fiction Society. It seems like there should be a lot of renewed interest in the book, and in Tade's other work, and ...
Stephanie Saulter at Worldcon 75
October 12, 2017 08:36 - 13 minutes - 30.3 MBAt Worldcon 75 Cheryl recorded a number of interviews with women writers of color. This one is with Jamaican author, Stephanie Saulter, whose (R)Evolution series has been very well received. For more information about that series, see Cheryl's previous interview with Stephanie here. Parts of this interview were originally broadcast on the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio.
Foz Meadow Interview
September 14, 2016 09:32 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBIn this interview Cheryl talks to Australian author, Foz Meadows, about her recently published novel, An Accident of Stars. Topics covered include women-centered novels, writing trans characters and matriarchal societies.
Cat Valente and Finncon
September 06, 2016 15:41 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBThis is the full version of the interview that Cheryl did with Catherynne M. Valente at Finncon 2016. Parts of the interview were previously broadcast on Women's Outlook on Ujima Radio. The interview covers the whole of Cat's career from her childhood obsession with fairy tales through her student days in Edinburgh, her early success with The Orphan's Tales, the amazing phenomenon that is the Fairyland books and her later adult novels such as Deathless and Radiance.
Mike Carey at Waterstones
September 01, 2016 14:14 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MBThis is a recording of the interview that Cheryl did with Mike Carey at Bristol Waterstones in May. The bulk of the discussion is about Mike's latest novel, Fellside. However, the conversation also strays onto The Girl with All the Gifts, the Felix Castor novels, the X-Men, the Lucifer TV series, and the Steel Seraglio books that Mike wrote with his wife and daughter. Our apologies for the poor sound quality, particularly when picking up audience questions. The event was organized by the...
Mike Carey on Ujima
August 30, 2016 12:05 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MBCheryl interviewed Mike Carey on her Ujima show on the very day that X-Men: Age of Apocalypse premiered in the UK. They do chat a bit about Mike's time writing the mutants later on, but the main thrust of the interview is about Mike latest book. Fellside is set in a women's prison, and deals with issues of prison privatisation and drug addiction as well as being a great ghost story. During the interview Cheryl mentions that she will be interviewing Mike again that evening. A recording of t...
Paul Cornell Interview
August 26, 2016 10:07 - 17 minutes - 23.4 MBThis interview with Paul Cornell too place on Cheryl's Ujima Radio show on May 6th. Paul and Cheryl talked about a variety of subjects including Paul's latest Shadow Police novel, Who Killed Sherlock Holmes, and his comic series, This Damned Band.
Cavan Scott Interview
August 24, 2016 14:06 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBThis interview with Cavan Scott took place on Cheryl's show on Ujima Radio on April 8th. Cheryl and Cav talked about various of Cav's writing projects including his Star Wars novels, his Sherlock Holmes novel, his Doctor Who comics and, of course, his work on The Beano. The illustration for this episode is of the Star Wars book that Cav wrote for World Book Day 2016. It became the #1 selling book in the UK.
Guy Gavriel Kay Interview
June 01, 2016 17:30 - 42 minutes - 24.5 MBThe is the full version of the interview that Guy and Cheryl did for Ujima Radio. The broadcast version was cut down by about 50%. The discussion is primarily about Guy's latest novel, Children of Earth and Sky, but touches on aspects of his other work as well.
Pete Newman Interview
May 24, 2016 10:07 - 19 minutes - 45.4 MBThis interview was first recorded in May 2015 as part of the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio. With The Vagrant being published in paperback this month, and the sequel, The Malice, out in hardcover, it seemed like a good time to run with the full version. A few bits of the discussion are slightly dated -- in particular Pete & Emma did not win a Hugo for Tea and Jeopardy -- but the discussion of the book is still very relevant.
Stephanie Saulter Interview
May 10, 2016 11:57 - 27 minutes - 15.6 MBThis interview was first recorded in September 2015. A cut-down version was broadcast on the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio. With Regeneration being published in the USA this month it seemed like a good time to run with the full version. The only place where the interview has dated is where Cheryl and Stephanie discuss Marlon James' chances in the Booker Prize.
Tobias S. Buckell Interview
October 10, 2014 10:40 - 27 minutes - 15.7 MBThis is the extended cut of an interview that originally ran on the Women's Outlook show on Ujima radio. Tobias is originally from Grenada but now lives in the USA. The interview explains how he came tomake that move, and how it ties in to one of the themes of his latest novel, Hurricane Fever. Tobias also talks about the inspiration behind his secret agent hero, Prudence Jones, and about how he managed to become a successful author despite a life-long struggle with dyslexia. As usual the in...
Rhonda Garcia Interview
October 06, 2014 16:46 - 38 minutes - 44.1 MBThis is the extended cut of an interview that originally ran on the Women's Outlook show on Ujima radio. Rhonda is a writer from Trinidad, and her debut novel, Lex Talionis, is available from Dragonwell Publishing and the usual retail outlets. The interview covers the book, Rhonda's journey to becoming published, and a little bit about life in Trinidad. As usual the interviewer is Cheryl Morgan.
Kathryn Allan - Accessing the Future
August 08, 2014 09:32 - 30 minutes - 17.3 MBThis is an interview with Kathryn Allan, the current recipient of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. Cheryl talks to her mainly about the crowdfunded anthology project, Accessing the Future, which she is co-editing with Djibril al-Ayad of The Future Fire. The anthology will focus on themes of disability in science fiction.
Nick Harkaway Interview
July 29, 2014 14:29 - 14 minutes - 33.5 MBThis is an interview with Nick Harkaway that original ran on the Ujima Radio Women's Outlook show. It was recorded prior to an event at Mr. B's Emporium of Reading Delights. Cheryl talks to Nick about his latest novel, Tigerman; about fatherhood, his love for comics, and why writers never grow up.
Leah Moore Interview
July 22, 2014 11:44 - 21 minutes - 24.8 MBThis is the extended edition of Cheryl's interview with Leah Moore, exceprts of which were first broadcast on Ujima Radio. In the interview Leah talks about following in the footsteps of a famous father, about motherhood, and about the Electricomics venture that she has started with (amongst others) her father and her husband, John Reppion, with the support of the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts. For more information about Electricomics see their website, or follow them on Twitter and Facebo...
Word of Mouth, June 2014 - Part 2
July 07, 2014 10:28 - 59 minutes - 136 MBThis is the second part of the readings from the June 2014 Word of Mouth event. Joanne Hall reads from a currently unsold novel, The Summer Goddess. Pete Sutton reads a story from a collection he is writing in which each story is inspired by the counting magpies folk song. Scott Lewis reads the rest of the story that he started in Part 1.
Word of Mouth, June 2014 - Part I
July 07, 2014 10:21 - 42 minutes - 97.5 MBOnce a year the BristolCon crowd takes over Word of Mouth, a monthly reading series run by Tangent Books and hosted by the Thunderbolt pub. Normally we'd put these readings on the BristolCon Fringe podcast stream, but that has limited capacity and these readings turned out to be quite long, so they are being hosted by Salon Futura instead. The three readers are Pete Sutton, Joanne Hall and Scott Lewis. Pete's story in this section is a rare (for him) science fiction piece. Jo reads from her...
Åcon 7 - The Karen Lord Interview
June 27, 2014 10:09 - 1 hour - 140 MBThis is the Guest of Honor Interview with Karen Lord that took place at Åcon in Mariehamn, Finland in May 2014. The interviewer is Cheryl Morgan. Karen is the author of the award-winning novels, Redemption in Indigo and The Best of All Possible Worlds. Tech services at Åcon are provided by Jonas Wissting to whom we are indebted for this recording.
Åcon 7 - The Post-Colonial SF Panel
June 24, 2014 14:40 - 51 minutes - 118 MBThis is a podcast of the panel on post-colonial science fiction that took place at Åcon in Mariehamn, Finland in May 2014. The panelists are: Karen Lord Sari Polvinen Juha Tupasela Cheryl Morgan Karen is an author from Barbados. Sari & Juha both have an academic interest in post-colonial SF. Cheryl is a critic. Tech services at Åcon are provided by Jonas Wissting to whom we are indebted for this recording.
Gareth L. Powell Interview
April 22, 2014 16:33 - 23 minutes - 26.4 MBThis is an interview with Gareth L. Powell that I did on Ujima Radio on December 18th, 2013, shortly after the launch of Gareth's novel, Hive Monkey. The first book in that series, Ack-Ack Macaque, has just become joint-winner of the 2014 British Science Fiction Association Award. The podcast of material from Hive Monkey is available here.
Nalo Hopkinson Interview
April 08, 2014 14:33 - 14 minutes - 16.8 MBThis is a podcast of the interview with Nalo Hopkinson broadcast on Ujima Radio's Women's Outlook Show on February 5th. It covers most of Nalo's novels, especially the latest, Sister Mine. We also discuss the state of LGBT rights in the Caribbean. My apologies for the poor sound quality on my voice during the interview.
Karen Joy Fowler Interview
March 18, 2014 15:04 - 21 minutes - 24.3 MBThis interview was originally recorded for a Ujima Radio show to be broadcast on March 19th. However, as Ujima is off air at the moment, I am podcasting it here instead. The interview is mainly about Karen's latest book, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, which has just launched in the UK. Karen will be at Foyles in Bristol on the evening of the 19th.
Afrofuturism on Ujima
January 06, 2014 13:05 - 47 minutes - 53.8 MBThis is an edit of a show about Afrofuturism that I did in November 2013. The studio guest is Tade Thompson and there are pre-recorded interviews with Bill Campbell, Tobias Buckell and Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, which were done at World Fantasy. For copyright reasons the music that I played during the show cannot be included in this podcast.
Nene Ormes on Ujima
September 26, 2013 19:35 - 29 minutes - 13.3 MBThis is a podcast of an interview that Cheryl did with Stephanie Saulter as part of the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio. Nene is a Swedish writer whose work is not yet available in English. Topics addressed include: Getting published in English Urban fantasy in Sweden Swedish crime novels Marriage equality in Sweden Vikings Egyptology (Nene is an archaeologist by training) The World SF Travel Grant Working in a bookstore Wedding tattoos Nene asked me to add that after the show ...
Stephanie Saulter on Ujima
September 24, 2013 22:13 - 25 minutes - 28.7 MBThis is a podcast of an interview that Cheryl did with Stephanie Saulter as part of the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio. Topics addressed include: Why non-white people might want to write science fiction (because Stephanie gets asked that); Diversity in SF&F (with mentions for the Writers of Color twitter account, Nikesh Shukla and Hal Duncan); The Nine Worlds convention (with a mention for Rochita Loenen-Ruiz); Stephanie's life and remarkable family; and The Scriptopus website The...
SF in SF: June 2013 Discussion
September 09, 2013 14:14 - 54 minutes - 125 MBThis is a podcast of the Q&A session from the June 2013 Science Fiction in San Francisco event. It is moderated by Terry Bission and features Cliff Winnig, Heather McDougal and Cassie Alexander. SF in SF is a monthly reading series sponsored by Tachyon Publications and run in aid of the Variety Children's Charity of California. Wizard's Tower is delighted to provide podcast space to allow this excellent event to be enjoyed worldwide.
SF in SF: June 2013, Cassie Alexander
August 29, 2013 22:24 - 19 minutes - 45.4 MBThis is a podcast of the third reading from the June 2013 Science Fiction in San Francisco event. The reader is Cassie Alexander, who entertained us with an extract from her novel, Shapeshifted. SF in SF is a monthly reading series sponsored by Tachyon Publications and run in aid of the Variety Children's Charity of California. Wizard's Tower is delighted to provide podcast space to allow this excellent event to be enjoyed worldwide.
SF in SF: June 2013, Heather McDougal
August 20, 2013 11:52 - 20 minutes - 47.7 MBThis is a podcast of the second reading from the June 2013 Science Fiction in San Francisco event. The reader is Heather McDougal, who entertained us with an extract from her novel, Songs for a Machine Age. SF in SF is a monthly reading series sponsored by Tachyon Publications and run in aid of the Variety Children's Charity of California. Wizard's Tower is delighted to provide podcast space to allow this excellent event to be enjoyed worldwide.
SF in SF: June 2013, Cliff Winnig
August 15, 2013 19:59 - 17 minutes - 39.7 MBThis is a podcast of one of the readings from the June 2013 Science Fiction in San Francisco event. The reader is Cliff Winnig. SF in SF is a monthly reading series sponsored by Tachyon Publications and run in aid of the Variety Children's Charity of California. Wizard's Tower is delighted to provide podcast space to allow this excellent event to be enjoyed worldwide.
Joanne Hall on Ujima
August 06, 2013 08:02 - 25 minutes - 11.7 MBThis is a podcast of an interview that Cheryl did with Joanne Hall as part of the Women's Outlook show on Ujima Radio. Topics addressed include Jo's book, The Art of Forgetting: Rider; QUITLTBAG characters in fiction; the Bechdel Test; and Bristolcon. The interview was originally broadcast on June 26th.
Madeline Ashby Interview
June 24, 2013 08:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBAn interview with Madeline Ashby, author of vN and iD, which took place in Toronto in June 2013.
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
October 10, 2011 10:16 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBCheryl Morgan interviews Graham Sleight about the new third edition of the famous Encyclopedia of Science Fiction which is due to be launched any day now. Graham is the business manager for the enterprise. The encyclopedia is being written primarily by John Clute, David Langford and Peter Nicholls, with a large number of guest specialist contributors. The official website of the new encyclopedia is here. There is also a working website here with sample entries and the contact form by which ...