Speculative Fiction Interview
Tomorrow, Saturday 7 August, I’ll be interviewing Ripley Patton for Women on Air, Plains 96.9 FM.
Ripley Patton is an American speculative author living in Christchurch. Best known for her short fiction, Ripley has been widely published in both NZ and internationally and currently has both a short story and a novella short listed for New Zealand’s Sir Julius Vogel Awards, which will be announced on August 27-29. Ripley is also the founder of SpecFicNZ, the first association for New Zealand writers of science fiction, fantasy and horror, which will be launched officially on August 28th, 2010 at Au Contraire, the 31st New Zealand National Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention in Wellington. I’ll be talking with Ripley about both her own success as an author and her drive to establish the first association for New Zealand speculative fiction writers, 120 years after Sir Julius Vogel published NZ’s first ‘officially’ speculative fiction novel, Anno Domini 2000 – A Woman’s Destiny. (Although I believe Samuel Butler’s Erewhon, 1872, may also have some claims in this respect.)