Why Did I Write the Banned Book Scenes, Anyway?
December 11th, 2006 by 
Steven Gould
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The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninja’s Podcast (Talking Old School Sci-Fi and Fantasy: The Past Is Always Present), did a show on my book Jumper last month which I blogged. Two weeks ago, they did an interview with me and it is now live. We talk about why Jumper was one of the top 100 banned books in America, 1990-1999 (per the ALA Banned Books List) and why I wrote it in the first place and what they’re doing with the movie (as much as Non-Disclosure Agreements let me.) And I learn that, as least for one specific segment of audience, having Rachel Bilson in one’s movie is a good thing.Well, she may be hot, but she’s no Caroline Spector.
Link (26 minutes). |
(By the way, it was number 94, near the bottom of the list, between Stephen King’s Christine and a non-fiction book on sex education. And then that gosh-darned Rowling woman came along and knocked us all off the list in 2000, anyway. Who knows? If the movie gets enough new people to read the book, maybe, just mabye, it’ll chin-up its way back on to the list.)
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December 11th, 2006 at 12:48 am
Oh! I see that she actually had a part in the seventh season of Buffy. (The one season I haven’t finished.) Maybe she’s more like Caroline than I suspected!
December 11th, 2006 at 1:29 am
Enjoy! Ed and I just finished season 7, and are currently watching the final season of Angel.
December 11th, 2006 at 2:10 am
Great interview Steven! You didn’t say anything so totally embarrassing that we would disown you. However, the implication that anyone got laid in the Slan Shack (Monkey House to true believers) was way past the believability meter. But, you tell lies for a living. So that’s a gimme. The show seemed faster, because the interviewers weren’t trying to fill time by hemming and hawing and repeating themselves. And NOBODY’s a Caroline; she’s the one true unduplicatable original, and we wouldn’t trade her for just anybody. Who would stir up all the trouble around here? Answer me that!
December 11th, 2006 at 8:32 am
i wrote a paper on censorship in highschool and talked about the banned book list a lot. my teacher was very impressed that i knew you, steve.
December 11th, 2006 at 9:02 am
That’s weird, Katie. Everybody I meet is impressed that I know you.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
not famous yet! though after valentine’s day i’m gonna start refering to myself as “locally celebrated burlesque dancer and preschool teacher, katie cowden”.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
David, we’re a podcast, there’s no time we have to try to fill. What you’re hearing is one hundred percent genuine hemming and hawing.
December 11th, 2006 at 7:22 pm
Genuine, not imported.
February 11th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Don’t be so proud to be banned. It means little. Be proud to be good. And you were. Still could have lifted some of the psychobabble crap out of there. But…you were good. Way better than the typical tripe that seeks the tap the overworked vien of SFdom. (And don’t shit on me for bad metaphors. I’m a reader. not a writer or wannabe.)