Interviews

Sir Arthur C. Clarke – 2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood’s End, The City and the Stars, The Songs of Distant Earth. Christopher Priest – author of The Prestige (winner of the World Fantasy Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and basis for the highly successful film of the same title starring Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlet Johansson and Michael Caine).  Interviewed for Interzone issue 207 (November 2006). Additional author interviews include Robert Holdstock – Mythago Wood series and the Merlin Codex (winner of the World Fantasy Award, Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire and British Science Fiction Association Award – BSFA) – interviewed for the author’s own website. Gary’’s interview with debut British author Mike Shevdon was featured in the November 2009 issue of Writing Magazine. Older interviews include those with Kevin J. Anderson (Dune, Star Wars, X Files), Cory Doctorow (Eastern Standard Tribe, website Boing Boing), Kathleen Ann Goonan (Queen City Jazz, In War Time) and Ricardo Pinto (Stone Dance of the Chameleon). Media related interviews include Gerry Anderson (Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, Space 1999), Ed Bishop (UFO, 2001: A Space Odyssey), Sophie Aldred and Colin Baker (Doctor Who). Further interviews include the Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape), the world’s undisputed master of the viola da gamba, Jordi Savall, the BAFTA Award winning composer George Fenton (Planet Earth, Cry Freedom, The Jewel in the Crown) and the Oscar-winning (for Shakespeare in Love) director of music of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stephen Warbeck.