Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint Germain Cycle | Worlds Of Speculative Fiction (lecture 80)

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We have restarted the Worlds of Speculative Fiction lecture/discussion series in a new online monthly format. Each session will have a roughly 90-120-minute-long video (this one is longer, though!), which will be premiered (allowing chat interaction between viewers and myself). Then immediately following that, we will have a Zoom videoconferencing session, where we'll continue the discussion.
This session focuses on the horror, science fiction, western, and fantasy author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain series, historic fiction, romance, and horror novels centered around the.long-lived and frequently travelled vampire of tha tand other names.
We focus on the first three books in the series, and discuss the worldbuilding and key philosophical themes within the books, as well as Yarbro's biography and some of her remarks from interviews about her own writing, planning, and history
The works that we draw upon and focus on in this session are:
Hotel Transylvania - amzn.to/3PVUb6I
The Palace - amzn.to/3VShPVr
Blood Games - amzn.to/4arSciy
The intro and outro music for this video is "Juno In The space Maze" by Loopop, made available in the public domain by UA-cam Audio Library
Authors we have covered in the series so far are J.R..R. Tolkein, A.E. Van Vogt, C.S. Lewis, Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Ursula K. Leguin, Michael Moorcock, Philip K. Dick, Mervyn Peake, George R.R. Martin, Philip Jose Farmer, Madeline L'Engle, Douglas Adams, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, Iain Banks, H.P. Lovecraft, William Gibson, C.L. Moore, Octavia Butler, Jorge Luis Borges, Fritz Leiber, Robert Heinlein, L. Sprague de Camp, Andre Norton, Arthur Clarke, Robert Howard, Gene Wolfe, C. J. Cherryh, Jack Vance, Edgar Allan Poe, G.K. Chesterton, Lewis Carroll, Tanith Lee, Gordon Dickson, August Derleth, Karl Edward Wagner, Aldous Huxley, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, China Mieville, Walter Miller, Cordwainer Smith, Liu Cixin, R. Scott Bakker, Stanislaw Lem, Neal Stephenson's, Philip Pullman, Olaf Stapledon, Veronica Roth, J.G. Ballard, Dan Simmons, Andrzej Sapkowski, Kim Stanley Robinson, N. K. Jemisin, Terry Pratchett, Steven Erickson, James Kennedy, and Jim Butcher
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[@drbeavis4211]

My app keeps breaking when I joined the chat, but it was interesting to listen. I haven't a whole lot to add to the discussion anyways as I'm not as much of a reader as I used to be. Cheers! Thank you for the video.

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're very welcome!

[@SolarLabyrinth]

I admit I had never heard of this series until it was recommended by The Outlaw Bookseller on his channel. Since he typically has very good taste I decided to buy the first couple of books. From what I have read they seem to be well written and well researched.

[@GregoryBSadler]

I'd say you're right in those judgements

[@micipsakoznet8623]

Greg je re-découvre chelsea q.y.avec toi . Et c’est bien . Je l’ai lu . . .et je l’avais oublié . Honte à moi ! Mais j’ai une excuse. Elle a été très peu traduite en France. C’est bien dommage.

[@Elder_Tree]

Hmm

[@GregoryBSadler]

Yes

[@Elder_Tree]

@@GregoryBSadler Sir do have any good recommendation of books on Japanese 🗾 and Chinese philosophy

[@GregoryBSadler]

@@Elder_Tree I do not

[@Elder_Tree]

@@GregoryBSadler okay no problem