There are many ways to change the world with language, small and large. Trading up for down, three words for one.
The more we see and say the words, the more carefully we hone our usage, the more our experience will open up each unique setting, and within those settings, each unique person.
—Change the Language, Change the World (Tor.com)
Featured
A selection of Fran’s favorite writings, organized by publication.
NPR:
∙ Review: 'Machinehood' Upgrades Asimov's 3 Laws Of Robotics
The New York Times:
∙ Op-Ed from the Future: “Please Stop Printing Unicorns”
The Washington Post:
∙ Three Children’s Authors on the Importance of Tough Topics in Young People’s Literature (with Carlos Hernandez and Rachel Hartman)
∙ How to Be A Lifeguard: Teaching My Daughter to Save Herself First
∙ Monsters and Magic (with author Kate Milford)
∙ Why Are All The Moms Gone? The Dangers of Parenting In Childrens’ Literature
Nerdy Book World:
∙ On Being Raised by Books and Boats
John Scalzi's Whatever:
∙ The Big Idea (for Horizon)
∙ The Big Idea (for Cloudbound)
∙ The Big Idea (for Updraft)
Chuck Wendig's TerribleMinds:
∙ A Museum of Errant Critters
∙ How Do You Build a Monster?
Uncanny Magazine:
∙ The Linguistics of Disability, or: Empathy > Sympathy
∙ We Will See You Now
Tor.com:
∙ Journaling, Science Fiction, and Travels Through China
∙ All the Voices of the Odyssey, an Interview with Emily R. Wilson
∙ Interstellar Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith
∙ The Art of The Bone Universe with Tommy Arnold and Irene Gallo
∙ It’s all in the Rigging “When a book takes me over water, I’m eagerly looking for the most seaworthy craft.”
∙ The Women of The Expanse, an Interview with Daniel Abraham
∙ How do you like your SF? A 10-Author round robin on hard and soft sf
∙ Here’s What Happens When You Read The Water Knife and The Peripheral At the Same Time
∙ Change the Language, Change the World
Clarkesworld's Another World:
∙ A Flock of Crows in a Swan Suit
∙ The Ship's Voice: A Risk Analysis and Modest Proposal
∙ Keeping Time
∙ Invisible and Visible Engineering in Science Fiction
∙ A Brief Parable about Exchanges Between Time, Independence, Technology, and Privacy
∙ Words with Wings: A Conversation with Fran Wilde
∙ Very Close Now: 30+ years of Virtual Narrative and Virtual Reality, from Hypercard to Oculus Rift
Other Favorites:
∙ B&N Kids Blog: Siblings Who Fight For Each Other
∙ Kickstarter's Drip on Medium: Author and poet Fran Wilde on dreaming up new worlds and dealing with writer’s block
∙ Jim C. Hines's Invisible3: Notes from the Meatcage
∙ Library of Congress: Flights of Fantasy & Fact: Man-made wings in Literature and History
Elsewhere
An collection of Fran’s writings elsewhere on the internet.
+ Guest Posts, Articles & Reviews
NPR: Review: ‘Every Bone’ Speaks In This Painful, Beautiful Debut Novel
Uncanny Magazine: “It is Not the Spoon That Must Bend…”
Kite Tales: #KTWRITEON with Author Fran Wilde: What’s (Hidden) In A Name?
Fantasy Cafe: Six Favorite Fictional Librarian Heroines
The Washington Post: Three children’s authors on the importance of tough topics in young people’s literature (with Carlos Hernandez and Rachel Hartman)
Nerdy Book Club: On Being Raised by Books and Boats
YAYOMG!: Author Fran Wilde Shares 8 Fun Facts About Riverland
SteaMG: The Magic and Science of Glass
Tor.com: Science Fiction, Journaling, and Travels through China
Uncanny Magazine: The Linguistics of Disability, or, Empathy > Sympathy
Clarkesworld: Keeping Time
Tor.com: The Voices of The Odyssey: Emily Wilson On Language, Translation, and Culture
TerribleMinds: A Museum of Errant Creatures
The Washington Post: How to Be A Lifeguard: Teaching My Daughter to Save Herself First
TerribleMinds: How Do You Build a Monster?
Medium: A Long Time Ago: Fran Wilde on Star Wars’ Scope and Scale (originally published on Unbound Worlds)
Tor.com: Interstellar Poet Tracy K. Smith
Tor.com: Making All Those Gears Spin: Engineering in Science Fiction and Fantasy Roundtable
Whatever: The Big Idea—Fran Wilde (for Horizon)
Mary Robinette Kowal: My Favorite Bit—Fran Wilde talks about Horizon
Jim C. Hines: Notes from the Meat Cage
Fantasy Cafe: In Your Narrative, Messing with Your Perspective
Clarkesworld: The Ship’s Voice : A Risk Analysis and Modest Proposal
Medium: On Seeing the World From a Different Point of View (originally published on Unbound Worlds)
Whatever: The Big Idea—Fran Wilde (for Cloudbound)
Mary Robinette Kowal: My Favorite Bit—Fran Wilde talks about Cloudbound
Tor.com: It’s All in the Rigging: My Favorite Fantasy Boats
The Washington Post: Monsters and magic can help kids through tough times. Here’s how. (with Kate Milford)
Tor.com: The Women of The Expanse: An Interview with Daniel Abraham
Clarkesworld: Very Close Now: 30+ years of Virtual Narrative and Virtual Reality, from Hypercard to Oculus Rift
Tor.com: How Do You Like Your Science Fiction? Ten Authors Weigh In On ‘Hard’ vs. ‘Soft’ SF
Tor.com: Intersection: Here’s What Happens When You Read The Water Knife and The Peripheral At The Same Time
Library of Congress: Flights of Fantasy and Fact: Man-made Wings in Literature and History
Tor.com: Five Books About The Monstrous
io9: No, Da Vinci Wasn't The First Inventor to Dream About Human Flight
The Washington Post: Why are all the moms gone? A parent/writer tries to find herself in children’s literature
Charles Stross: Not-So-Invisible Ninjas, or Recent and Upcoming Debuts in Fantasy and Science Fiction... that just happen to be written by women
GeekDad: Bridging the Gap: Engineering Magic in Updraft
Tor.com: Change the Language, Change the World
TerribleMinds: Fran Wilde’s Somewhat Questionable Answers To All Your Publishing Questions
Mary Robinette Kowal: My Favorite Bit—Fran Wilde talks about Updraft
io9: When Book Research Means 250 MPH Winds, A Crash Helmet and Goggles
Tor/Forge Blog: Torpedia Entry: Skymouth
Whatever: The Big Idea—Fran Wilde (for Updraft)
Far Beyond Reality: The Novel as Landscape: Choosing What to See, What to Hear
Book Smugglers: Updraft: Fran Wilde on Inspirations & Influences
Fantasy Book Critic: Earworms and You: Memory, Laws, and Singing by Fran Wilde
Vampire Book Club: Looking at Things Upside-Down
The Arched Doorway: A Small Cartography of Maps by Fran Wilde
Fantasy Literature: Categorizations of Genre Fiction: A Mini-Manifesto
A Dribble of Ink: A Fantasy Foodie Bakers’ Dozen
Inkpunks: Sketchpunks: A Guest Post from Fran Wilde
A Dribble of Ink: Gravity's Own Monster: Worldbuilding in the Air
Interviews, readings, and round tables featuring Fran.
+ Interviews, Podcasts & Webcasts
Free Library of Philadelphia: Local Author Reading Series with Siobhan Carroll and Fran Wilde
PubTalkLive: With Fran Wilde and Rachel Hartman
Just Keep Writing: Riverland—Fran Wilde
Coode Street Podcast: 10 minutes with Fran Wilde
Shimmer Zine: Portal Play—An Interview with Fran Wilde
GeekMom: Skype with Fran Wilde
Odyssey Workshop: Interview with Guest Lecturer Fran Wilde
KnippKnopp: Interviews Fran Wilde
Kickstarter’s Drip on Medium: Author and poet Fran Wilde on dreaming up new worlds and dealing with writer’s block
The Kickstarter Blog: Meet the Spring/Summer 2018 Kickstarter Creators-in-Residence
Shimmer Zine: New Horizon(s)—An Interview with Fran Wilde
Golden State Media Concepts Book Review Podcast: Interview with Fran Wilde
Fantastic Fiction at KGB: Holly Black & Fran Wilde | Photos
The Liars Club Oddcast: Fran Wilde
Geek Girl Riot: Whachudoin’? with Fran Wilde
Coode Street Podcast: David Levine and Fran Wilde
Midnight in Karachi: Fran Wilde
Tribble Nation: Fran Wilde
Angela Slatter: Colouring Outside the Lines with Fran Wilde
Eating the Fantastic: Welcome to a bifurcated Balticon episode of Eating the Fantastic with guest Fran Wilde
DitchDiggers with Mur Lafferty & Matt Wallace: Fran Wilde rolls with it
ARCHIVOS Podcast: 20 Minutes with Fran Wilde
Locus Magazine: Fran Wilde: Magical Engineering
Clarkesworld: Words with Wings: A Conversation with Fran Wilde
The Skiffy & Fanty Show: Roundtable Discussion on Novellas w/ Eugene Fischer, Fran Wilde, Malka Older, and C.S.E. Cooney
Cooking the Books: An Intimidation of Shrimp: A Roundtable with Aliette de Bouchard, Zen Cho, and Fran Wilde
Fantasy Scroll Magazine: Interview with Author Fran Wilde
Krypton Radio’s The Event Horizon: Fran Wilde, Author of ‘Updraft’
Fantastic Fiction at KGB: Nathan Ballingrud & Fran Wilde | Photos
Geekadelphia: Fran Wilde Q&A
SF Signal: Fran Wilde on Updraft, Worldbuilding, Literary Inspirations, and More
Lawrence M. Schoen: Eating Authors—Fran Wilde
A.M. Dellamonica: Updraft author Fran Wilde gets into the heroine thing…
A.C. Wise: An Interview with Fran Wilde
B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog: Bone Towers and Sky Cows: 11 Things We Learned Talking With Fran Wilde About Updraft
The Skiffy & Fanty Show: Fran Wilde (a.k.a. Chadwick’s Progeny) — Updraft (An Interview) and Giveaway!
Civilian Reader: Quick Q&A with Fran Wilde
I Should Be Writing: Believing in Yourself – Fran Wilde Interview
The Qwillery: Interview with Fran Wilde, author of Updraft
Functional Nerds: Fran Wilde
Tor.com’s Rocket Talk: Fran Wilde
Writers, After Dark: One-on-One with Fran Wilde
Live to Read: Updraft by Fran Wilde: Interview and Giveaway!
Cooking the Books: Superstitions and Flying Bighorn Sheep: Elizabeth Bear Interviews Fran Wilde
Urban Fantasy Investigations: Interview + Giveaway: Updraft by Fran Wilde
Tor.com: Debut Tor Authors Play “Would You Rather: SFF Edition”
A Dribble of Ink: Catching Fran Wilde on the Updraft
SF Signal: MIND MELD: Cities in SFF and the Epic Road Trip
Philadelphia Writers' Conference: Introducing Fran Wilde
SF Signal: MIND MELD: Sequels We Want to Novels We Love
Gregory Frost: Fran Wilde: Rising in the Updraft
The Boksone Blog: 5 New Boskone Mini Interviews: The YA and Beyond Extravaganza!
SF Signal: MIND MELD: The Best Book Openings
Geekadelphia: Fran Wilde, Sci-Fi Author/Blooger/Podcaster
The Online Writing Workshop for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror: Spotlight on Fran Wilde
SF Signal: MIND MELD: Books We've Worn Out Reading
SF Signal: MIND MELD: Our Favorite Dragons in Fantasy
Reddit: r/Fantasy Site of the Week: Cooking the Books AMA
Aletha Kontis: Month of Authors and Artists Interview with Fran Wilde
The Bluestocking Blog: Questions for Fran Wilde
SF Signal: MIND MELD: SF/F Food
Carrie Cuinn: Writer Wednesday: Fran Wilde
Writer Tamago: Profile: Fran Wilde