Chasing the Phoenix by Michael Swanwick (broadcast August 17, 2015) — 5-time Hugo Award winning author Michael Swanwick was in town for three events (the Oak City Comic Show, and readings at Quail Ridge Books and Flyleaf Books) on a tour in support of his new novel Chasing the Phoenix, set in his “Darger and Surplus” post-utopian milieu of con artists, malevolent artificial intelligences, and a pre-industrial collapsed future of genetic manipulation and plagues. That sounds a bit bleak, but they’re actually both darkly and laugh-at-loud funny books as well. (If you want a bit bleak, try Swanwick’s Stations of the Tide or his World Fantasy Award nominated The Iron Dragon’s Daughter.) In studio with co-hosts Mur Lafferty and Samuel Montgomery-Blinn. Swanwick’s last tour date is coming up next Monday (September 21) at the Penn Bookstore in Philadelphia at 6:00 p.m.
Mur Lafferty and Michael Swanwick