{"id":390,"date":"2009-12-17T01:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T05:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/17\/jon-armstrong-podcast\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T01:58:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T05:58:34","slug":"jon-armstrong-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/17\/jon-armstrong-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers Finding Themselves a City to Live In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image389\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/jon-armstrong.jpg\" alt=\"jon-armstrong.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>You might remember about a month ago, when <a href=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/20\/borders-cities-fiction\/\">I hosted a discussion at Borders<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\">Jeff VanderMeer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/users.rcn.com\/delicate\/\">Jeffrey Ford<\/a>, and Geoff Manaugh of <a href=\"http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com\/\">BLDGBLOG<\/a> about the intersections of visionary architecture and science fiction\/fantasy. Well, SF novelist Jon Armstrong was there to record the proceedings for his podcast, <i>If You&#8217;re Just Joining Us<\/i>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifyourejustjoiningus.com\/2009\/12\/11\/cities-real-and-unreal-a-discussion-of-architecture-and-fiction-with-jeff-vandermeer-jeffrey-ford-geoff-manaugh\/\">now everyone can listen in<\/a>. It&#8217;s a little over a half-hour in length, and although I sometimes felt a little hesitant in my questions (and I can really hear it listening to the playback), the three authors had great answers and will give you a lot to think about.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll track down their books, and you should also visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonarmstrong.com\/\">Jon&#8217;s website<\/a>, where you can get a look at his novel, <i>Grey<\/i>, which I read two years ago at the prompting of a mutual colleague and thought was fabulous the same way I loved the Frederick Pohl\/C.M. Kornbluth collaborations growing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember about a month ago, when I hosted a discussion at Borders with Jeff VanderMeer, Jeffrey Ford, and Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG about the intersections of visionary architecture and science fiction\/fantasy. Well, SF novelist Jon Armstrong was there to record the proceedings for his podcast, If You&#8217;re Just Joining Us, and now everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}