John C. Wright ([info]johncwright) wrote,
2007-03-19 10:18:00

Podcast!

My local library interviewed me, and posted the result here for all and sundry to hear. The government people were very nice, and I am sure they did not know I am a closet anarchist. (That is, I believe in lawlessness for wardrobes.) 

Radio from your Internet browser! HEAR me hold forth on topic of import! THRILL to my lame jokes! WONDER at my weird sounding voice! 

I even, may heaven help me, mention Space Princesses in the interview! And the interviewer, a nice man named Sam Clay, calls our beloved genre "Sci-Fi"! (I was not sufficiently zealous and pure in my geekishness to tell him WE prefer the term "That Buck Rogers Stuff".) 


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[info]dirigibletrance

March 19 2007, 15:33:36 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

You know, I had expected for some reason that you would sound British. But you didn't. How odd.

[info]kokorognosis

March 21 2007, 03:08:32 UTC 5 years ago

So did I :p I had this vague idea in the back of my head that Wright-sensei would have a distinguished British accent :p

[info]johncwright

March 21 2007, 21:37:07 UTC 5 years ago

There is a reason well know to the science of psychology to explain this strange assumption that I should sound like a Britisher. Namely: all the cool Bad Guys from EMPIRE STRIKES BACK have Brit accents, and my readers subconciously realize, from the way I talk, that I am loyal to the Empire. Hail Palpatine! Hail!

[info]dirigibletrance

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[info]johncwright

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[info]gray_roger

March 19 2007, 16:23:35 UTC 5 years ago

As you are obviously a gentleman and scholar, how could you have done so poorly in law school? Perhaps I just answered my own question?
Since you obviously need to be inundated with fan mail, where should it be sent? Some place where they sort out the pipe bombs first, I hope.

[info]johncwright

March 19 2007, 19:02:27 UTC 5 years ago

When I was mentioning fanmail in the interview, I meant email. So far, only one person has actually written me on paper. (Thank goodness. I am not organized enough to actually write back a written letter. Emails are easy to answer.)

[info]johncwright

March 19 2007, 19:11:18 UTC 5 years ago

A gentleman and a scholar who cannot spell his own wife's name. Yey, me!

[info]gray_roger

March 19 2007, 19:49:54 UTC 5 years ago

That's the way it always is with interviews, your voice goes up two octaves and your mind goes blank. So, you must really sound like James Earl Jones.

[info]headnoises

March 19 2007, 18:33:37 UTC 5 years ago

You sound fine.

Do you talk with your hands?

[info]headnoises

March 19 2007, 18:49:54 UTC 5 years ago

Oooh! Do you know the girl you're adopting yet? (I mean, seen her, talked too her, all that?)

Tell me if that's too personal, I'm just a very big supporter of adoption and I adore kids. *Grin*

[info]johncwright

March 19 2007, 19:03:51 UTC 5 years ago

Nope. The process takes a long, long time, and there may be new regulations that will cause added delays and added costs. I have to go get my fingerprints done for the second time.

[info]headnoises

March 19 2007, 19:04:52 UTC 5 years ago

Good luck and God speed.

[info]elliot_h

March 19 2007, 18:57:37 UTC 5 years ago

Good interview! I noticed you managed to slip in space-princesses, and SF as mainstream literature, and some of the other ideas you've blogged about here.

Sometimes when I'm reading your more...er... *forceful* essays online, I've imagined you with a booming stenorian voice, orating to the masses. But your real voice sounds very personable.

[info]johncwright

March 19 2007, 19:09:50 UTC 5 years ago

I would like the readers of my livejournal to imagine my voice to be like that of Sam the Eagle from the Muppet Show.

No, my voice sounds funny on the audio because they used a personabilizer (tm) sound editing system to make me sound personable. Its amazing what they can do with audio tracks these days.

[info]elliot_h

March 19 2007, 19:19:01 UTC 5 years ago

Ooh, yeah, Sam the Eagle! That's exactly it! Stern and patrician and fed up with the silly Muppets surrounding him...

Anonymous

March 23 2007, 21:38:49 UTC 5 years ago

"No, my voice sounds funny on the audio because they used a personabilizer (tm) sound editing system to make me sound personable. Its amazing what they can do with audio tracks these days."

This made me laugh, because I suspected you sounded something like Mr. Spock.

[info]mirtika

March 19 2007, 20:22:16 UTC 5 years ago

Surprise!

I really thought you were gonna sound like Orson Welles, a deep and wry voice.

YOu sound smart and friendly, much perkier and faster in pace than I expected. :) But it's NOT a weird voice at all. Atractive, actually.

Mir

[info]dirigibletrance

March 19 2007, 20:36:55 UTC 5 years ago

Re: Surprise!

After listening to the podcast again, I realize that John sounds a little bit like Jeff Goldbloom.

[info]johncwright

March 20 2007, 19:30:50 UTC 5 years ago

Re: Surprise!

They added the perkiness and pacing with electronic gimmickery. In real life, I sound like one of the shrieking Skeksis from THE DARK CRYSTAL. After the recording, I ordered the Garthim and crystal bats to pinion the interviewer and his crew, and I drained them of their vital essence.

[info]gray_roger

March 20 2007, 19:54:55 UTC 5 years ago

Re: Surprise!

This sounds disturbingly like Hello Kitty meets Cthulhu

Anonymous

March 20 2007, 01:53:06 UTC 5 years ago

Funny...

...you don't sound like George Kennedy. :)

John D.
SF Signal (http://www.sfsignal.com)

[info]patera_meyers

March 20 2007, 19:49:17 UTC 5 years ago

Great interview. It wasn't long enough. And the interviewer didn't seem as interested in the cool topics you wanted to talk about. Reminds me a bit of an interview my friend did with Gene Wolfe years ago:

http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze2tmhh/wolfejbj.html

This is my first comment on your journal, but I've read all your books. Good stuff. Interesting to hear that you've finished a novel that extends Vogt's _World of Null-A_. Who's publishing it?

[info]johncwright

March 20 2007, 19:58:45 UTC 5 years ago

Null-A Continuum

Tor books is publishing Null-A Continuum, with an arrangement with the estate of A.E. van Vogt.

I should also mention that Kevin J. Anderson has written an authorized sequel to Slan, called SLAN HUNTER.

http://www.amazon.com/Slan-Hunter-Kevin-J-Anderson/dp/0765316757

[info]patera_meyers

March 21 2007, 13:11:49 UTC 5 years ago

Re: Null-A Continuum

Thank you! I've seen this Anderson book but haven't read it yet.

[info]johncwright

March 21 2007, 18:47:54 UTC 5 years ago

Re: Null-A Continuum

I want to read SLAN HUNTER; I hope it is satisfactory. Here is one review from a true Van Vogt scholar, Isaac Wilcott, who helped me with some of my research for my Null-A book.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~icshi/Reviews.html

[info]johncwright

March 21 2007, 18:59:15 UTC 5 years ago

Slan Hunter

The beginning of SLAN HUNTER is available at Jim Baen's Universe magazine:
http://preview.baens-universe.com/articles/slan1

I notice with approval that the world of Slan includes AM radio, manual typewriters with carbon copies. It looks like Anderson made an attempt to keep the tech level equal to what it was in Van Vogt's original SLAN.
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