Theodora Goss
Theodora Goss's publications include the Crawford Award finalist In the Forest of Forgetting, The Rose in Twelve Petals and Other Stories and Interfictions, co-edited with Delia Sherman. She has won the World Fantasy for short fiction. See her website for more details.
If you had to write a new spin on a classical text, what would you pick and what creative direction would you take?
I do this a lot, actually. The next one I want to do is Frankenstein. I want to write a series of alternative sketches in which the monster pairs up with each of the female characters in the story. (What if Justine had woken and accepted the monster, or Elizabeth had chosen the monster instead of Frankenstein, for example?)
What can genre fiction do better than its more literary orientated counterpart?
Write about things that don't exist. Or is that too obvious?
Pick one novel/series you'd like to see made into a film or television series.
I honestly don't know. So many film and television adaptations are less interesting than what I can imagine. But I think I'd like to see some seriously well-done Lovecraft.
MIKE RESNICK
Mike Resnick is, according to Locus, the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short fiction, and 4th when you include novels. He has won 5 Hugos, plus other majors awards in the USA, France, Spain, Poland, Croatia and Japan. He is the author if 61 novels, 240 stories, and 2 screenplays, and has edited more than 40 anthologies.
If you had to write a new spin on a classical text, what would you pick and what creative direction would you take?
I'd pick Moby Dick, and I'd have Ahab kill the white whale, and then explore the rest of his life after his quarter-century of monomania had come to a conclusion.
I set out to do that with The Soul Eater (Signet, 1981), but in the course of writing it found a story I preferred to tell, so this one's still untold.
What can genre fiction do better than its more literary orientated counterpart?
Not much, really. I'll grant this to science fiction: it can give you all time and space to set up your moral parable.
Pick one novel/series you'd like to see made into a film or television series.
I'd like to see them make Eric Frank Russell's WASP into an espionage thriller, and if they set it in Nazi Germany or today's Iran, that'd be okay too.
Lynne Jamneck - Lynne Jamneck lives in Auckland, New Zealand. Short listed for the Sir Julius Vogel and Lambda Awards, she has published short fiction in ...
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