In this episode we have a conversation between Marie-Claire Gould and Ken Liu. Ken Liu is an American author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he wrote the Dandelion Dynasty, a Silkpunk epic fantasy series as well as short story collections The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and The Hidden Girl and Other Stories. He also penned the Star Wars novel The Legends of Luke Skywalker.Liu frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, machine-augmented creativity, history of technology, bookmaking, and the mathematics of origami.Marie-Claire Gould is the host, publisher and editor of What the Force? A Star Wars Fandom Podcast. Marie-Claire loves speaking with people about what makes Star Wars and mythology real for them. In this conversation they discuss Joseph Campbell, mythology, AI and the narratives that we can create about the future of technology.To find out more about Ken Liu visit https://kenliu.name/IG @kenliu.authorTo find out more about Marie Claire Gould visit https://whattheforce.ca/about/marie-claire-gould/IG @wtforcemediaFor more information on the MythMaker Podcast Network and Joseph Campbell, visit JCF.org. To subscribe to our weekly MythBlasts go to jcf.org/subscribe The Podcast With A Thousand Faces is hosted by Tyler Lapkin and is a production of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. It is produced by Tyler Lapkin. Executive producer, John Bucher. Audio mixing and editing by Charles Mallett. All music exclusively provided by APM Music (apmmusic.com)
For more information on the MythMaker Podcast Network and Joseph Campbell, visit JCF.org. To subscribe to our weekly MythBlasts go to jcf.org/subscribeThe Podcast With A Thousand Faces is hosted by Tyler Lapkin and is a production of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. It is produced by Tyler Lapkin. Executive producer, John Bucher. Audio mixing and editing by Charles Mallett.All music exclusively provided by APM Music (apmmusic.com)