{"id":4225,"date":"2023-04-21T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/?post_type=sf-podcast&#038;p=4225"},"modified":"2023-04-16T14:05:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T18:05:26","slug":"episode-16-nail-farer-by-yves-meynard","status":"publish","type":"sf-podcast","link":"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/sf-podcast\/episode-16-nail-farer-by-yves-meynard\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 16: &#8220;Nail-Farer&#8221; by Yves Meynard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-create-block-libsyn-podcasting-block\"><div class=\"libsyn-shortcode\" style=\"display:block\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Host: <a href=\"https:\/\/rbwood.com\/dir\/about-us\/\">R. B. Wood<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in 1964 in Qu\u00e9bec City, Yves Meynard currently lives in Orl\u00e9ans, Ontario. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. Since 1986, he has published over 50 SF &amp; Fantasy short stories in both English and French, and 19 books in French. His first book in English, a fantasy novel titled\u00a0<em>The Book of Knights<\/em>, came out in January 1998 from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tor Books<\/a>. His second English-language book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/chrysanthe\/YvesMeynard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chrysanthe<\/a><\/em>, came out in March 2012. A collection of short stories,\u00a0<em>Angels &amp; Exiles<\/em>, was published in 2015. His writing has netted him several awards, most notably the\u00a0<em>Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/em>\u00a0in 1994.<br>Yves was fiction editor from 1994 to 2001 for the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois SF magazine\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.revue-solaris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solaris<\/a>; he has been an anthologist for several projects, including the anthology\u00a0<em>Tesseracts5<\/em>, published by Tesseract Books. He is one of the founding members of SF Canada. A Macintosh enthusiast from the instant he laid eyes on the machine, he has written several applications for the Mac and is developing more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N\u00e9 en 1964 \u00e0 Qu\u00e9bec, Yves Meynard demeure \u00e0 Orl\u00e9ans, en banlieue d&#8217;Ottawa. Il d\u00e9tient un doctorat en informatique de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. Depuis 1986, il a publi\u00e9 plus de 50 nouvelles de science-fiction et fantastique, en anglais comme en fran\u00e7ais, et 19 livres en fran\u00e7ais. Il a \u00e9galement \u00e0 son actif deux romans en anglais,\u00a0<em>The Book of Knights\u00a0<\/em>et\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/chrysanthe\/YvesMeynard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chrysanthe<\/a>.<br><\/em>Yves fut directeur litt\u00e9raire de la revue\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.revue-solaris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solaris<\/a>\u00a0de 1994 \u00e0 2001, et a agi comme anthologiste pour divers projets, dont\u00a0<em>Tesseracts 5<\/em>\u00a0et\u00a0<em>Escales sur Solaris<\/em>. Fan du Macintosh de la premi\u00e8re heure, il a cr\u00e9\u00e9 plusieurs applications pour le Mac et s\u2019affaire \u00e0 en d\u00e9velopper d\u2019autres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Host: R. B. Wood Born in 1964 in Qu\u00e9bec City, Yves Meynard currently lives in Orl\u00e9ans, Ontario. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. 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