Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:47:46 -0500
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From: Kathi Overton <kathi at fast-forward.tv>
Subject: [WSFA] Fast Forward Contemporary SF - February 2005 Episode
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February 02, 2005
For Immediate Release

Contact:  Tom Schaad  703-892-4970
          tom at fast-forward.tv
                  Mike Zipser 703-757-7840
                  mike at fast-forward.tv

PATRICIA C. WREDE, CO-AUTHOR OF THE GRAND TOUR, ON FEBRUARY EPISODE
OF FAST FORWARD.

Writer Patricia C. Wrede is interviewed on this month's episode of
Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction. Wrede talks about
collaborating with co-author Caroline Stevermer on their latest
novel, The Grand Tour.

In conversation with host Mike Zipser, Wrede discusses the special
challenges of creating an authentic feel for a first person fantasy
novel that is also a regency romance.  According to Wrede, getting
the language right was critical: "We went back and back over that,
checking. And there were times when we wore out pages in the OED
checking, was this word in use in this sense."

The February episode of Fast Forward also features Colleen Cahill's
review of the essay collection Interstellar Travel and
Multi-Generation Space Ships, edited by Yoji Kondo and members of the
AAS.

In addition, Marianne Petrino gives high marks to Haibane-Renmei, an
anime video series distributed by Pioneer Entertainment.

Fast Forward: Contemporary Science Fiction is a monthly half-hour
television series about the genres of science fiction, fantasy, and
horror.  Fast Forward is produced by D.G. Productions through the
facilities of Arlington Independent Media in Arlington, Virginia.
The show has been in production since 1989 and can be viewed on cable
systems in Arlington and Fairfax counties in Virginia.  Recent
interviews are also available online at www.fast-forward.tv.

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