Robin & David were joined in the run up to World Fantasy in Brighton (UK) by Joe Hill, whose new novel, King Sorrow, is his first in nine years. This episode is a real doozy, with the chat ranging far-and-wide. Not to be missed! Check out our new detailed timestamps at the bottom of these notes.
https://britishfantasysociety.org/blog/bfs-podcast-long-story-short/
[There are handful of F-bombs in the episode]
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Learn more about Joe here: https://www.joehillfiction.com/#intro
Visit David’s website: https://www.davidgreenwriter.com/
And Robin’s: https://robincmduncan.com/
Time stamps (with about 30s lead-in)
(03:06) a home in the British Fantasy community
(05:35) 2000AD
(06:52) King Sorrow
(11:49) other kinds of peril
(13:48) Better Call Saul
(15:03) Dark Academia
(16:48) a Ken Follet epic
(21:29) the Broken Binding special edition
(24:20) illustration and physical books
(27:02) the Orwellian thing
(28:17) the pain is the point
(32:26) themes in King Sorrow
(36:40) dragon tattoos
(37:47) dragons like cats
(38:39) emptying the full magazine
(41:01) Stephen King
(48:52) King Sorrow; horror or fantasy?
(51:23) how terrible to live in Middle Earth
(53:26) banned books / we're all f**ked
(56:10) World Fantasy
(57:21) Locke & Key
(66:38) Return of the Jedi is not very good
(69:30) Hunger, a novel (2026)
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