S3 Ep. 5: Live at the Miami Book Fair: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer on Classic Fantasy, Fearsome Ducks, and Dead Astronauts

In this episode, taped live at the Miami Book Fair, writer Jeff VanderMeer and editor Ann VanderMeer talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about editing The Big Book of Classic Fantasy anthology, historical understandings of fantasy, editing beyond Anglocentrism, and the significance of animals in fantasy compared to literary fiction. Jeff VanderMeer also talks about his newly launched novel Dead Astronauts, the future of genetic editing, and how to write about animals.

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Guests:

• Ann VanderMeer
• Jeff VanderMeer

Readings for the Episode:

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, eds.

• The Big Book of Classic Fantasy
• The Big Book of Science Fiction
• The Time Traveler’s Almanac

Jeff VanderMeer

• Dead Astronauts
• Borne
• Acceptance
• Authority
• Annihilation

Ann VanderMeer, editor

• The Bestiary
• The Sisters of Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology
• The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories

Others

• Jeff VanderMeer's Borne and Dead Astronauts Are Heading to TV, Tor.com, Dec. 3, 2019
• Hans-my-Hedgehog: A Tale from the Brothers, Brothers Grimm
• Bend Sinister by Vladimir Nabokov

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