Steph Swainston Interview
The new Clarkesworld Magazine is up, and it features my interview with Steph Swainston. Yes, that’s right, Clarkesworld now publishes nonfiction, too. And in this first interview, Swainston literally laughs at death:
What do you most fear?
Selling myself short.
More than anything else? You don’t fear death? How about the death of loved ones?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha. OK, you don’t know me. You’re forgiven. I am not in the slightest afraid of dying. Nobody who has been through what I have will be afraid of it. If you face death your senses are buzzing! You feel alive! I have thrown myself out of planes, swum underground, all without fear of death. Who the fuck cares? As long as it’s fast and relatively painless, I don’t give a crap if it happens next minute or in fifty years.
Check it out.
Jeff
October 9, 2007 at 10:03 am
Truly, she’s an inspiration to we mere mortals who flinch at the shadow of the grim reaper.
Live fast, die young, leave a well-proofed manuscript!
Were I only so brave. So, so brave.
October 9, 2007 at 6:13 pm
“As long as it’s fast and relatively painless-”
Well, that there’s the catch, isn’t it? It’s all very well to mock a fear of dramatic deaths, but methinks slow, debilitating, crippling, undignified and prolonged deaths are a different story.
October 10, 2007 at 3:23 am
Thats a bit silly. I’d bet good money that if someone walked up to her and stuck a loaded gun in her face, stating they would shoot her dead in ten seconds time, she’d be pissing hersel
October 10, 2007 at 7:05 am
Oh, no Vydas. She’s the Ubermensch.