The interview from our July 2010 episode is now available for online viewing! This interview features author and radio show personality Dom Testa, talking about his Galahad book series for young adults. Mr. Testa discusses the first three volumes in the series, his early foray into self-publishing, and how he ended up working with Starscape/Tor Teen, the current publisher of the Galahad series. Mr. Testa also explains the concept behind The Big Brain Club, his effort to help young people equate being smart with being successful (and cool).
Also in this month’s show:
Colleen Cahill reviews The Book on Fire, a novel by Keith Miller .
Marianne Petrino reviews the anime series Spice and Wolf.
To view or listen to the Dom Testa interview, choose a link below. The video version is a Quicktime file. The audio version is an mp3 file.
The June 2010 episode of Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction is now available for viewing online, in its entirety! This month’s episode’s is a special presentation – highlights from the 2010 Nebula Awards Ceremony, held in Cocoa Beach, Florida on May 15, 2010. The Nebula Awards are presented by SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and are among the most prestigious English language literary awards for science fiction.
We hope you enjoy this condensed version of the Nebula Awards Ceremony. For a complete list of the Nebula Award winners,click here.
To view the episode, select the Nebula Awards Video link below. The file is 28 minutes long, and about 75MB in size. Thanks for watching!
Fast Forward visited science fiction convention Balticon 44 over Memorial Day weekend, where we recorded short interviews with some folks. We will be uploading more videos in the days to come. Click on the link below for a clip from author and editor Laura Anne Gilman:
Sorry about our unexpected hiatus – we had some scheduling issues and couldn’t get the May episode out in a timely fashion. We will have a new episode of Fast Forward out soon, however, and it will include material from our recent visit to the Nebula Awards Weekend in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
In the meantime, to see our handicam footage of the space shuttle Atlantis launch, click on the link below.
The interview from the April 2010 episode of Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction is now available for viewing online. This episode’s interview is with author Mindy Klasky, who talks about her new book, When Good Wishes Go Bad, the second volume in her As You Wish series.
Also in this month’s show:
Colleen Cahill reviews Blackout, the long awaited novel from Connie Willis.
Marianne Petrino reviews the anime series Fafner.
To view or listen to the Mindy Klasky interview, choose a link below. The video version is a Quicktime file. The audio version is an mp3 file.
The interview from the March 2010 episode of Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction is available for online viewing. This interview is with author David J. Williams, who talks about the third and final book in his Autumn Rain series, The Machinery of Light.
Also in this episode of Fast Forward:
Colleen Cahill reviews Witch Way to the Mall, an anthology edited by Esther Friesner.
Marianne Petrino reviews the anime series Ghost Hunt.
To view or listen to the David J. Williams interview, choose a link below. The video version is a Quicktime file. The audio version is an mp3 file.
We’ll be posting the March 2010 interview (with author David J. Williams) soon – tomorrow, I hope. In the meantime, a quick update on the Fast Forward team’s plans for the next couple of months.
Sadly, it looks as though Fast Forward will be unable to have a presence at this year’s Worldcon (in Melbourne, Australia). We were really hoping to be there and record a lot of video at the convention but our finances just won’t allow it.
On a brighter note, at least part of the team plans to attend the Nebula Awards Weekend in Florida this May, and we hope to record some material there. We should also be at Balticon in Maryland during Memorial Day weekend. Please feel free to say “Hi” if you see the crew at a convention.
We also hope to start processing some interviews that have been languishing in the Fast Forward dungeons for some time. Some new computer equipment may finally make it practical to get the material edited and posted online. More on that later.
The February 2010 episode of Fast Forward is now available online. This episode features a talk by authorJasper Fforde, given at the Politics & Prose bookstore during a recent book tour. Mr. Fforde talks about and reads passages from his latest novel, Shades of Grey.
To view or listen to the Jasper Fforde talk, choose a link below. The video version is a Quicktime file. The audio version is an mp3 file.
The interview for the January 2010 episode of Fast Forward is now available online. This interview features host Mike Zipser talking with editor and author Scott Edelman. Mr. Edelman discusses his eclectic career, from early days in the Marvel Comics bullpen, to editing Science Fiction Age magazine, his stories for the television series Tales from the Dark Side, and his current position at the SyFy television network, editing both online and print periodical content.
There’s also a lot of talk about zombies!
The complete cable TV episode of Fast Forward also includes:
The interview from our July 2010 episode is now available for online viewing! This interview features author and radio show personality Dom Testa, talking about his Galahad book series for young adults. Mr. Testa discusses the first three volumes in the series, his early foray into self-publishing, and how he ended up working with Starscape/Tor Teen, the current publisher of the Galahad series. Mr. Testa also explains the concept behind The Big Brain Club, his effort to help young people equate being smart with being successful (and cool).
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The June 2010 episode of Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction is now available for viewing online, in its entirety! This month’s episode’s is a special presentation – highlights from the 2010 Nebula Awards Ceremony, held in Cocoa Beach, Florida on May 15, 2010. The 
Sorry about our unexpected hiatus – we had some scheduling issues and couldn’t get the May episode out in a timely fashion. We will have a new episode of Fast Forward out soon, however, and it will include material from our recent visit to the Nebula Awards Weekend in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
The interview from the April 2010 episode of Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction is now available for viewing online. This episode’s interview is with author 
The interview from the March 2010 episode of Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction is available for online viewing. This interview is with author 
The February 2010 episode of Fast Forward is now available online. This episode features a talk by author 
The interview for the January 2010 episode of Fast Forward is now available online. This interview features host Mike Zipser talking with editor and author 
