The 2021 Online Version of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was a few months back and so I'm a bit late in getting these posts out, but as always I seriously enjoyed catching various panel discussions. One such panel discussion was about speculative fiction.
Here are some bio information that I took from the LA Times website.
Amal El-Mohtar is the science fiction and fantasy columnist for the New York Times Book Review and the co-author, with Max Gladstone, of This Is How You Lose the Time War, a novella which has been published in ten languages and received such honours as the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards.
Max Gladstone is the author of the Hugo-nominated Craft Sequence, which Patrick Rothfuss called “stupefyingly good.” The sixth book, Ruin of Angels, was released this September . . . John Crowley described Max as “a true star of twenty first century fantasy.”
Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians, a 2020 finalist for The Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction.
The following are my notes from the panel discussion:
Amal El-Mohtar
Has never read Ray Bradbury, which is embarrassing considering the context of the panel. But does love J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit." Read it at the age of 7. Lived in Lebanon at the time and her dad's cousin gave her the book. Loved the book so much she memorized the songs in the book. It was the first time she was aware of an author.
