A Meal of Thorns 34 – BURNING BRIGHT with Ursula Whitcher

Combining cyberpunk, space opera, and a strong interest in artistic creation and gaming, Burning Bright is an unusual SF novel from a very specific era. Author Ursula Whitcher joins us to talk about the novel’s many strange facets, its fascination with endings, and its connections to developments elsewhere in gaming and science fiction. Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books. Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon! Guest: Ursula Whitcher Title: Burning Bright by Melissa Scott Host: Jake Casella Brookins Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork by Rob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson References: North Continent Ribbon Indra Das’s The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar Fonda Lee's Green Bone books & game thereof w/ James Mendez Hodes Bruce Coville's Aliens Ate My Homework & Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher Thomas Ha's Uncertain Sons Scott’s Trouble And Her Friends & Astreiant series, most recently Point of Hearts C.S. Lewis's Perelandra Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance novels Don Daglow’s Neverwinter Nights Commedia dell'arte The Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise LAN parties C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner books Arkardy Martine's Teixcalaan books Iain M. Banks' Player of Games Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash Cameron Reed's Fortunate Fall Iain Softley’s Hackers William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy Charlie Jane Anders Bruce Sterling Michael Swanwick's Stations of the Tide Ursula's website & Bluesky