In this episode of Storyline Sessions, speculative fiction author and the host of SFF Adicts podcast Adrian M. Gibson talks about his upcoming novel Mushroom Blues, blending genres, creating immersive experiences in writing, influences of social and political themes on fiction and many more interesting topics.<\/p>\n
Adrian’s Website – https:\/\/adrianmgibson.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Adrian’s Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/adrianmgibson\/<\/a><\/p>\n SFF Adicts Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sffaddictspod\/<\/a><\/p>\n Listen to SFF Adicts Podcast – https:\/\/linktr.ee\/SFFAddicts<\/a><\/p>\n Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/<\/a><\/p>\n Riverside.fm<\/a> affiliate link (I receive a recurring commission with no additional cost to you): https:\/\/www.riverside.fm\/?via=marko<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Timestamps:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 00:00 – Start<\/p>\n 00:52 – Conversation start<\/p>\n 01:00 – Why fungi and what is the Fungalverse?<\/p>\n 08:24 – Colonialism, Japan and cultural inspirations<\/p>\n 13:08 – China Mieville, traveling and modern SFF dealing with politics<\/p>\n 19:10 – Cover, map and other visuals<\/p>\n 24:21 – Book soundtrack and immersive experiences<\/p>\n 30:48 – Juggling podcasting, writing and life changes<\/p>\n 35:35 – Learning from mistakes<\/p>\n 37:00 – Genre fluidity, Philip K. Dick<\/p>\n 42:44 – Disco Elysium love<\/p>\n 46:38 – Personal stories, traumas and choosing POVs<\/p>\n 52:24 – Making the world feel real<\/p>\n 54:20 – Writing process<\/p>\n 1:04:12 – Future of the Fungalverse<\/p>\n 1:06:55 – One weird random fact<\/p>\n 1:09:15 – One piece of writing advice<\/p>\n 1:12:11 – Outro<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this episode of Storyline Sessions, speculative fiction author and the host of SFF Adicts podcast Adrian M. Gibson talks about his upcoming novel Mushroom Blues, blending genres, creating immersive experiences in writing, influences of social and political themes on fiction and many more interesting topics. Adrian’s Website – https:\/\/adrianmgibson.com\/ Adrian’s Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/adrianmgibson\/ SFF…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storyline-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}