In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
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In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.
Toronto-born speculative writer Cory Doctorow talks with host Oliver Brackenbury about Canadian sci-fi, his mentors in the genre, and his current experiences as an ex-pat author living in America.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
Cory Doctorow
BoingBoing
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Judith Merril
Bakka-Phoenix Books
Futurian House
Prisoners of Gravity
Tim O' Reilly & Web 2.0
Tor.com
“Tolerable Levels of Violence” by Robert G Collins
Charles De Lint
License Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond Anthology
Madeline Ashby
“Stealing Worlds” by Karl Schroeder
“Radicalized” by Cory Doctorow
“Posey the Monster Slayer”
“Little Brother Omnibus”
“Attack Surface”
“The Lost Cause” Opening chapter posted by Cory.
Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection
In Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection, host Oliver Brackenbury interviews special guests about notable history and new frontiers in the worlds of science fiction, fantasy and horror as found in Toronto’s Merril Collection, the Western Hemisphere’s largest publicly accessible archive of genre materials.
Produced by Chris Dickie. Interviews have been edited for length and content.