Long Story Short Ep-27: Memory is All We Are, with T.R. Napper [E]

[This one’s a bit sweary here and there, he is an Aussie, after all.]

If you only listen to 30 seconds of this cast, listen from time stamp 28:45. In addition to discussing Tim’s work, hear him rail against the threat of A.I. to creativity, and even that of technology to human memory. We also talk novellas, Australian publishing and the power of art to rehabilitate.

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Time stamps

(02:10) 36 Streets

(03:20) short fiction as career hack

(07:20) starting again while on submission

(10:00) ideas are not the problem [***STRONG LANGUAGE***]

(11:25) Hydropunk? / that Space Wizard story, again, in 60 seconds

(13:15) publishing in Australia

(14:35) Neon Leviathan / building a career / word-building strategy

(20:40) Tim’s novella, Ghost of the Neon God / selling novellas

(24:35) What about A.I., Tim? [***STRONG LANGUAGE***]

(25:55) a month of art / a rehabilitation programme

(28:45) A.I./ “losing faith in ourselves as human beings”

(32:13) Katie reviews The Bone Door by Frances White

(34:22) The Escher Man

(43:05) Tim’s writing process

(50:33) What’s up next? / Tim’s new fantasy world