With his debut novel Infoquake, David Louis Edelman constructs a believable yet highly imaginative vision of the future where nanotechnology and the science of bio/logics has erased the boundary between the real and the virtual. The first book in the Jump-225 trilogy, Infoquake focuses on Natch, a ruthless bio/logic programmer and head of a ‘fifecorp’ as he strives for commercial success.

We wrap the week up with Science Fiction author and blogger Tobias Buckell. We discuss his breakthrough novel Crystal Rain, blogging, his writing and the future of Science Fiction on the Internet.

IS the talk of WWIII Paranoid or plausible? I’m not going to answer this in depth because our commentators mirror much of my own thinking on this one. Personaly I think the whole thing is a paranoid fantasy myself but it’s one that it’s one that is perfectly capable of becoming self fullfiling.

Today we bring you Science Fiction Writer and former SFWA president Paul Levinsion. Paul’s also been kind enough to participate enough in a number of our Brain Parades. And thanks to our nifty new Tag cloud you can see all his commentary at a click of a button, just hit the Paul Levinson tag.

Science Fiction and Fantasy author John C. Wright went to town with our last question. We hope this vision of the future doesn’t come to pass as it would pretty much wreck the planet but at least it’ll get wrecked in an amusing way.

MTToday we interview Peter Watts, a Canadian science fiction author whose name popped up three times in our underrated writers Brain Parade a while back. His debut novel Starfish is one of the best science fiction novels I’ve read in the decade. I pestered Peter about his upcoming novel Blindsight.

Today we get a head start on the week with an interview with science fiction author Mark Budz. I talk to him about science ficiton, writing, military robots and his latest novel Idolon.

Times are-a-changing, it wasn’t that long ago (four weeks in fact) when I probably couldn’t name a single Australian science fiction author. Now I’ve corresponded with two, the first is Russel Blackford and the second is Joel Shepherd who I’ve just interviewed.

Today we interview Keith Brooke the British science fiction author behind Genetopia (link), Green Party candidate and the man behind curtain at Infinityplus.co.uk. I asked him a few questions about his work and his politics.

Hal Duncan is a Scottish writer author whose debut novel Vellum has been generating a lot of very good buzz lately. He was kind enough to oblige us an interview. Enjoy.

We wrap up a heavy week of blogging with Chris Roberson a young turk who has been making waves with Paragea a new SF novel that’s getting quite a buzz on the SF blogosphere. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to get my hot little hands on a copy on this side of the Atlantic yet but I’m a big fan of pulp and Chris Roberson is at the forefront of what seems to be a resurgence of 21st century pulp action in SF.

Today we pick David Louis Edelman’s brains. He’s the author of the brand spanking new novel Infoquake (link) an active blogger who maintains his own blog (link) and also has his fingerprints on Deepgenre (link) and SFnovelists (link)

You’ve probably noticed that blogging Canadian SF writers are overepresented here. Well that trend continues. Today I bring you Mark Rayner a hilarious blogger and new kid on the block in the Canadian SF scene. His debut novel is Amadeus Net, you can read more about it here (link) Here’s our exchange:

We kick the week off with a chat with Robert Charles Wilson author of Spin.

MTHow is work coming along on Axis? I realize its probably too early to ask you about it, but… Can you tell us anything about it?

John Shirley is the author of numerous novels and books of stories, including the novels Cellars, Wetbones, City Come A-Walkin’ , Eclipse, A Splendid Chaos, the collection Black Butterflies (which won the Bram Stoker award and which was chosen by PW as one of the best books of that year), and the collection Really Really Really Really Weird Stories from Nightshade.

Today we take a different tack and interview an editor rather than a writer on the subject of science fiction. John has his fingers in a lot of different pies, he’s assistant editor of Fantasy and Science Fiction

As promised I’m following up on reader feedback from our Brain Parade on Underrated Science Fiction writers (link). One of our readers nominated Susan, I’d credit him here with a link but he commented anymonously. Susan was gracious enough to submit to a few pesky questions about her work

We kick the week off with an interview with Jeffrey A. Carver. Jeff’s novel The Infinity Link was the first science fiction hardcover I ever owned so this interview was something of a treat for me. He was kind enough to answer a few questions about his work and his take on the writing life.

We kick the week off with an interview with fellow Canadian Robert J. Sawyer. Rob writes hard sf that likes to tackle big philosophical questions. He’s a Hugo and a Nebula award winner and I don’t doubt that readers in Canada and the United States are already familiar with him. I am suprised at the number of Brits who haven’t though.

We kick the week off with an interview I conducted with Matthew Cheney a writer based in New Hampshire. Matthey writes fiction in a variety of genres and also maintains a very active blog about all things concerning the written word called Mumpsimus (link).

A few weeks back I interviewed Jeffrey Ford who mentioned Tom Purdom as his pick for the genre’s most underrated writer. So I decided to contact Mr. Purdom and find out a little more about him. I conducted this interview via email. Enjoy:

We kick the week off with an interview with Elizabeth Bear, 2005’s winner of the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer. She’s a nice lady and I enjoyed picking her brains. Enjoy

We kick the week off with an interview with Science Fiction writer David Moles. He’;s been in some of our Brain Parades and he also maintains a blog (link). You can read more about David along with links where you can read some of his work online here (link).

I’ve just been in touch with Ms Buckner who just won a shiny new Philip K. Dick award for War Surf. She lives in Tennessee and is an outdoor enthusiast as well as an environmental activist.

I corresponded with Ryk a bit back in the 90s back in by nutty days as a rpg and ccg publisher. When I found out he was now writing out science fiction I was pleased but not entirely suprised and hit him up for an quick interview. There’s a pic of him below (he’s the one in the glasses). You’ll also be hearing more from Ryk in some of our upcoming Brain Parades.

We start this week off with an interview with Karl Schroeder a fellow Canadian that has made a big splash in the past few years. His latest book is Lady of Mazes.

I came across a favourable review of a debut science fiction novel titled Steel Sky on SFsite. Andrew C Murphy, the author, was kind enough to oblige us for an interview.

William Shunn, a Nebula nominee, is one of a small but growing number of Science Fiction authors who podcast. We pestered him for an interview and he was kind enough to oblige.

Alastair Reynolds is a Welsh science fiction writer based in the Netherlands. We like his books so we posed as highly important science fiction journalists and pestered him with some questions. Fortunately he fell for it.

Neal Asher is an brit Science Fiction author who most recently penned The Voyage of the Sable Keech. Neal was gracious enough to succumb to a bit of pestering.