Odyssey Podcast #176: Carrie Vaughn on the Delivery of Information in Fiction

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Carrie Vaughn on the Delivery of Information in Fiction

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Odyssey Podcast #176 is an excerpt from a lecture by Carrie Vaughn for Your Personal Odyssey in 2024 on the delivery of information in fiction.

Carrie Vaughn’s work includes the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel Bannerless, the New York Times bestselling Kitty Norville urban fantasy series, over twenty novels and upwards of 100 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. Her latest novels are historical fantasies, The Naturalist Society and The Glass Slide World, about 19^th century ornithologists and the magic of binomial nomenclature. She graduated from the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 1998, and has frequently returned to the workshop as a lecturer, critiquer, and writer-in-residence. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado.

The text of this recording is copyright © 2024 by Carrie Vaughn. The sound recording is copyright ℗ 2026 by Odyssey Writing Workshops Charitable Trust.

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