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Pre-season Episode 2: After, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling eds

Posted by lastshortstory on September 22, 2012 Leave a commentComments Go to comments

Cover of After, Datlow & Windling Welcome to the second episode of Last Short Story. This month Ian Mond and I are joined by Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth co-founder Tansy Rayner Roberts to discuss Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling's After:  Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia.

As part of the pre-season for the podcast, we continue to refine the format. This time we accept that we're not going to get through nineteen stories, however fine they may be, in an hour podcast, so we restrict ourselves to discussing these six stories, all of which rank amongst the year's better stories, and several of which are clearly amongst the best:

  1. "The Segment," Genevieve Valentine
  2. "Valedictorian," N.K. Jemisin
  3. "Blood Drive," Jeffrey Ford
  4. "The Easthound," Nalo Hopkinson
  5. "Fake Plastic Trees,"  Caitlin R. Kiernan
  6. "The Marker," Cecil Castellucci

These aren't the only good stories in the book, by any means, but in the collective opinion of the podcast panel they easily justify the time spent reading the book.

Next month: The Future is Japanese, Nick Mamatas & Masumi Washington eds.

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  • Jeff Ford

    Tanzy, Ian and Jonathan: Thanks so much for reading and discussing “Blood Drive.” I enjoyed your conversation, but I wanted to let you know that both in Texas and Arizona this year had bills introduced into their legislatures to allow students to carry guns at colleges. That would be one year later than the last year of high school. I’m not down on gun ownership, but as a teacher for 30 years at a Community College, I am against guns in school.

    Sep 22, 2012 at 12:21 pm

  • lastshortstory

    That’s terrifying! The idea they’d seriously consider doing it? I had no idea. Thanks for the comment and for the terrific story!

    Sep 24, 2012 at 6:35 pm

  • Sean the Bookonaut

    Wow. I can’t think of anything worse than putting a handgun into the possession of anyone who has not had extensive law enforcement training and even then.

    Sep 24, 2012 at 9:53 pm