Full Contact Nerd Interviews

Full Contact Nerd Interviews


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Overwatch League – “Young Guns” (Hachette Books, 2020) – Austin Moorhead interview
May 05, 2020

Check the book out here https://amzn.to/2WtYIRg Austin Moorhead is a financial reporter and a gamer. He decided it would be really fun to embed himself into the Overwatch League and write a book about it so he did.

Fantasy science fiction novel – “Chosen Ones” (John Joseph Adams, 2020) – Veronica Roth interview
April 29, 2020

Check the book out here https://amzn.to/2y32eKh Veronica Roth is well known for her successful Divergent series of books which were also put on screen. She recently wrote a fantasy science fiction novel “Chosen Ones” and she spoke to me about that book...

Science fiction novel – “Providence” (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020) – Max Barry interview
April 20, 2020

Check the book out here https://amzn.to/2xHNTCx Max Barry has authored six novels including science fiction. He also developed the popular nation simulation game NationStates. He’s recently published a new science fiction novel Providence and we spoke ...

Italian science fiction studies book – “Italian Science Fiction: The Other in Literature and Film” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) – Simone Brioni interview
April 14, 2020

Check the book out here https://amzn.to/2yda3MY Dr. Simone Brioni is a professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. He’s written and taught on the subject of migration and Italian colonialism. He recently co-authored a book on Italian scie...

Anime Voice Actor – Bryce Papenbrook interview
March 30, 2020

Check out Attack on Titan Season One here https://amzn.to/2JpD3U3 Bryce Papenbrook has been doing voice acting since age 6 and has over 250 credits to his name. We spoke about his work, his inspirations, and voice acting in general at Anime USA 2019.

Fantasy magic novel – A Witch in Time (Redhook, 2020) – Constance Sayers interview
March 09, 2020

Check the book out here https://amzn.to/333VDdr Constance Sayers has published her first novel, an era-spanning tale of a witch reliving a doomed love affair  and her attempt to fight back against inevitable sorrow.

Anime Voice Actor – Daman Mills interview
January 31, 2020

Daman Mills is a professional anime voice actor with over 120 character credits to his name. We sat down at Anime USA 2019 and spoke about his approach to his work and some of his daunting challenges in the voice acting world.

Game of Thrones science – “Fire, Ice, and Physics” (MIT Press, 2019) – Rebecca Thompson interview
December 18, 2019

Rebecca Thompson is a physicist who loves to teach and write about science. She spoke once about the science of Game of Thrones and then turned the idea into a really, cool book. We spoke about the book and what it took to research very different field...

Video Game Voice Artist – Faye Mata interview
November 22, 2019

Faye Mata is a voice actress with over 60 credited roles in anime and video games. We discussed her approach to voie acting and some of the roles she’s done. Get a League of Legends Gift card here 0:41 – Faye talks about how she got into voice acting f...

Overwatch Voice Artist – Keith Silverstein interview
November 11, 2019

Keith Silverstein has been a voice artist for over 30 years with almost 400 credited roles to his name. He’s worked on anime, videogames, animation, radio and more. The role he says he is most known for at the moment is Torbjörn from the game Overwatch...