Christopher Ruocchio, author of Sun Eater, chats to me.

Join me for a wide-ranging chat with Christopher Ruocchio, author of the deservedly popular Sun Eater series. We talk about what comes after Sun Eater, his favourite Sun Eater book, his writing influences, his writing process, the Punic Wars, the John W Campbell era, some incoming special editions of the first few Sun Eater books, a whole bunch of stuff.
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[@ronin47-ThorstenFrank]

Great interview!
And surprisingly long and in-depth! (Something I´ve TBH missed with the one with Ken McLeod!).
Christopher Ruocchio siad some very important at around 50:00 when he tlked about all those things that are maybe lost forever soon because the last witnesses of the first three generations of SF writers slowly fade away.
That´s why I always recommend Phil Harbottle´s and Gary Lovisi´s channels.

[@SciFiScavenger]

Hi Thorsten. I'm finding that the interview videos get very few views relatively speaking, seems to be a pattern even on bigger channels. Most folks aren't interested. Still, i enjoy meeting the authors so that's a good enough reason. My chat with Adam Roberts will be a similar length I think. Thanks for watching 👀!

[@Editone77elr]

Audible allows you to keep all the books credits or other even if you cancel. The books that get removed are the free books and podcasts.

[@SciFiScavenger]

Yes, thanks, i was pretty sure that was the case. Thanks for watching 👀!

[@ronin47-ThorstenFrank]

ADDENDUM: I´ve got something to say about the Jack Parson/JPL connection Christopher Ruocchio mentions - one of the things that people really misunderstand about Corwleys occultism is that he was much more grounded than the media portrayed. Especially in the later years Crowley´s thought went much more in a direction that was closer to free-masonry and rosiccrucianism. It was much more about self-improvement than doing spiritual stuff.
While I consider Crowley as interesting in ways, I don´t consider it a danger in society. In contrast to another connection of Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard - the founder of Scientology.
In fact a surprising large number of scientists had at least a part of their life in occult directions. And in most cases those weren´t the "loonie" ones (ike certain ancient astronaut or similar stuff freaks) but respected members of the scientific community (including Nobel price winners)
(Ok, that was the TLDR version now LOL)

[@themojocorpse1290]

I relate to your comments jon on thinking I was very well read in SF and in general. Once I started watching channels such as yours I found myself thinking similarly never heard of this author , that book . The thing I’ve enjoyed more than anything is being introduced to new / old books I’ve somehow missed . Great interview many thanks🫡

[@SciFiScavenger]

There's always more books! Glad you enjoyed it, i enjoyed chatting to him. Thanks for watching 👀!

[@dug3557]

Great interview

[@SciFiScavenger]

Thanks for watching 👀!

[@TheEricthefruitbat]

Great interview; thanks, Jon.

[@SciFiScavenger]

Cheers Eric, thanks for watching 👀!