In this episode, Joseph Knowles and Cole Smith join me to talk the cancellation of the Martin Gero's new Stargate series and how it might involve broader concerns that currently haunt good story-telling. Other conversations on Stargate are focusing on industry mechanics and protesting, which is great. This one zooms out a bit to focus on broader problems that might be at play and on recourse in the written word.
Joseph Knowles is an author and the editor of Silence and Starsong, a magazine of speculative fiction.
Cole Smith is an author and writing coach at Cole Smith Writes.
- x.com/SilenceStarsong
- x.com/WritesCole
- colesmithwrites.com
- silenceandstarsong.com
- My first response to the cancellation: penjams.com/they-buried-the-gate
- Mollazzi's main post on it: x.com/BaronDestructo/status/2061963285428330923
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