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eBook Description: Culled from the over 200 episodes of his National Public Radio syndicated radio show, this eBook contains fascinating interviews between Dave Slusher and some of the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors around. Included in this free eBook are interviews with; Nicola Griffith, Poppy Z. Brite, Michael Swanwick, Kim Stanley Robinson, Emma Bull, James Morrow, Michael Bishop, Ann Kennedy and Chris Reed, Tad Williams, Jonathan Lethem.

eBook Publisher: Evil Genius, Published: 1999
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2001

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Michael Bishop was the very first person to agree to be a guest on the Reality Break radio show, so it is only fitting that his be the first interview in the first book.

At the World Fantasy Convention in Pine Mountain, Georgia in 1992, I showed up armed with two page flyers describing a show I wanted to do and a stack of business cards. When I approached Michael Bishop, it seemed to be an act of brazen chutzpah--a voice in my head suggested me that I not bother the man. I handed him a flyer and gave him my spiel about the proposed show. He responded with an enthusiastic "Yes" and proceeded to write down his address and phone number for me. For the next month, I kept thinking "Good Lord, Michael Bishop's home number is in my day planner!" It was my first moment of being starstruck, that a writer whose work I so admired was now accessible to me.

As it turned out, it would be a year and a half before the actual interview in April 1994. Brittle Innings had just been released, and we did the interview just a few days after the 20th anniversary of Hank Aaron's 715th home run. It seemed a fitting time and place to discuss that novel. To this day, Brittle Innings remains one of my favorite novels that I read for the show. In fact, it is one of my favorite novels ever.

I was delighted to do this interview, but I sure was unprepared. I always feel nervous and unprepared in the moments before I do one, but this time I really was. I found it impossible to remember the title The Secret Ascension (or alternately Philip K. Dick is Dead, Alas,) I asked some really half-assed questions and in general got a little flustered at myself. Despite all that, the interview turned out well. This had far more to do with him than me. He soldiered on, politely giving intelligent answers to stupid questions, and we ended up with something good. To this day, I feel like I owe him a shot at another, more intelligent interview.