Category: Interviews etc

This podcast is a conversation between myself, Chris Gregory and the extremely funny Emily Inkpen. You can also listen to it on Spotify and lots of other places.

Following on from the interview with me by Marty Kurylowicz and Holly Carson in which we talked (among other things) about the sunless ecology of Eden, their ‘Science in the Fiction’ podcast has done two additional episodes about the real science of sunless ecosystems (which of course do exist on Earth – notably around thermal vents in the depths of oceans):

Ep 57: Julius Csotonyi on Dark Ecology in ‘Dark Eden’ – Part 1

Ep 58: Julius Csotonyi on Dark Ecology in ‘Dark Eden’ – Part 2

One thing I learned from these is that there are organisms that photosynthesise using infrared light alone (ie the form of light that is radiated by hot objects even when they produce no visible light, often slightly misleadingly called ‘radiant heat’). I would have used this if I’d known about it.

It was a pleasure to be interviewed by Marty Kurylowicz and Holly Carson, who are based in Canada, for their ‘Science in the Fiction’ podcast. You can find the result at all three of these locations:

Buzzsprout Apple Podcasts Spotify

Interview here with Jon Jones for his Youtube channel: SciFiScavenger

I haven’t listened to it myself (I don’t like hearing my own voice, which sounds much posher and more drawly when recorded, than it does inside my head), but I enjoyed the interview.

Thanks very much to Stephen E. Andrews for this youtube interview for his Outlaw Bookseller podcast, providing an overview of all my books. Steve is based in Bath, in Somerset, and his extraordinarly encyclopaedic knowledge of books is matched by his infectious enthusiasm. I first met him when he invited me to give a talk in Bath’s Waterstones.

Interview here with Chris Gregory, at Alternative Stories, interspersed with readings by actors from my books (Including preview of my next novel, Tomorrow.)

The unusual format of this podcast is that I and the two interviewers (Ben and Nick) had each written a mini-story with the same title (‘I’m alone’) and we began by reading these.

Here’s me talking to Sam Ruddock, on behalf of National Centre for Writing, about dialogue among other things. Many thanks to Sam and to NCW for having me.