In 2014, Plutopian Maggie Duval produced a great EFF-Austin party and event called Cyberpunk 2014 Retrofest during SXSW. A highlight of the event was an ambitious panel about cyberpunk as…
Literature
Jon and Scoop interview science fiction author and attorney Christopher Brown about his latest book, Failed State, his second “dystopian lawyer” novel. The book is set just after the Second…
Interview with Renshin Bunce, hospice chaplain and Zen priest, and author of the book “Love and Fear.”
Tiffany Lee Brown (aka magdalen, aka T) is a writer and interdisciplinary artist who lives off in the woods somewhere in Oregon. T has been a Tarot card reader for…
Jane Hirshfield is an award-winning poet, translator, essayist, and editor. She’s written nine books of poetry. Her latest book, Ledger, “poses meticulous equations of the self coping with doubt, hunger,…
Interview with Gary Gach, author of PAUSE BREATHE SMILE – Awakening Mindfulness When Meditation Is Not Enough., discusses his history with Buddhism and mindfulness, and his latest focus on presenting a full framework of mindfulness instruction.
Christopher Brown returns to the Plutopiaverse to discuss his new dystopian legal noir, Rule of Capture.
Plutopians met Robert Jackson Bennett at “Science Fiction House” during SXSW 2019. Thats where we began our fascinating discussion about the blurry border between fantasy and science fiction. Robert is…
Author Lewis Shiner has written nine novels and many short stories. His latest novel is Outside the Gates of Eden, a novel of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The…
On February 17, Plutopia’s correspondents Scoop and Jon recorded a reading and talk by physician and science fiction author Michael Blumlein. Michael has published four novels and three story collections,…