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Dark Ecology 2

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.

Dark Ecology

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 with ‘SciFiScavenger’

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.

Interview with Stephen A. Andrews

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.

Hard to categorize

I was asked by this website (shepherd.com) to pick a category of book, and then list five favourites in that category. I picked the category ‘hard to categorize’. My list is here.

The first four books I’ve been aware of for a long time (since my teens in a couple of cases). The Molly Keane I only came across recently.

Interview with Alternative Stories

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

Tiny Bookcase interview

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.

Interview with Sam Ruddock

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.

‘Writers on lockdown’ (interview)

Interview here with fellow-writer and aficionado of dreams, Caroline Dudley.

Podcast discussions of Dark Eden (and an interview)

Spectology have recorded not one but two very detailed discussions of Dark Eden. The ‘pre-read’ discussion is here. The ‘post-read’ discussion (i.e. the one in which spoilers are allowed) is here. They like the book a lot, which I’m obviously delighted about.

Following these two podcasts, Adrian from Spectology did an additional podcast in the form of an interview with me, which you can find here.