In episode 173 of the Functional Nerds Podcast, Patrick Hester and John Anealio welcome Ian Tregillis, author of Something More Than Night.
About Ian:
Ian Tregillis attended the University of Minnesota for both college and graduate school. Eventually the university decided it had seen quite enough of him, so it politely but firmly asked him to leave, grow up, and get a real job. Ian’s parting gift was a doctorate in physics for his research on radio galaxies. After finishing his thesis, he moved to New Mexico just as soon as he found a group of people willing to hire him. He’s still a bit surprised by this because he has no useful skills.
In 2005, Ian attended the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in East Lansing, Michigan. (This was the second-to-last Clarion class in the program’s 35 year run at Michigan State University, before the program moved to its new home at UCSD in 2007.) There he spent six weeks living in a sweltering, slightly creepy, soon-to-be-condemned sorority house with twelve other aspiring writers. Scurvy was a problem. However, in spite of many predictions, cannibalism was not.
After Clarion, and thanks to Walter Jon Williams, he was welcomed into New Mexico’s disproportionately large community of professional science fiction and fantasy writers. Although he often feels like a minor league batboy inexplicably mistaken for a professional baseball player, he has shared critiques with, and worked alongside, a long list of New Mexico writers including WJW, Daniel Abraham, Melinda Snodgrass, S. M. Stirling, Ty Franck, Victor Milán, Sage Walker, and George R. R. Martin.
Nowadays he lives in northern New Mexico, where he consorts with writers, scientists, and other disreputable types.
This week’s picks:
- John: Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan
- Ian: Cuckoo by Rose and The Howling North and Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
- Patrick: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
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Ian’s new book reminds me of Neil Gaiman & P. Craig Russell’s ‘Murder Mysteries’ http://goodreads.com/book/show/490789.Murder_Mysteries
The “Noir” feel of Dark City is a strong selling point of the movie for me. When Jennifer Connolly appears on screen in that green dress….
Any idea if Something More Than Night will be available on Kindle? It only seems to be available in audiobook or hardcover form at the moment. :<
Rob – a lot of times that’s controlled by the publisher. Sorry.
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Ah well, I’ll keep my fingers crossed then. 🙂
I don’t know if you are UK or what, Rob, but I have SMTN on my kindle. It’s for sale in the US.
Yeah, I’m in the UK. Doesn’t look like the Kindle edition is available here yet, but if one exists in the US then that’s probably a good sign.