With her new short story anthology, Entanglements: Tomorrow's Lovers, Families, and Friends (MIT Press, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/twelve-entanglements), editor Sheila Williams (https://www.asimovs .com /from-the-editor/) brings together a range of voices to explore the impact of technological and scientific progress on the deepest human relationships. We talk about Sheila's nearly 40 years editing science fiction stories for Asimov's Science Fiction magazine (https://www.asimovs.com/), how she manages to balance fresh voices and miscellaneous with a foundation of the history of SF, how it copes with receiving 800 stories a month (while only being able to buy 5-6), and the larger role of technology in daily life and what that means for the imagination and expectations of writers and readers. We also touch on her author panics (like going blank when she met Samuel R. Delany many years ago), how her background in philosophy helps her as an editor, the downsides and missing festivals, the challenge of editing an author in translation (in this case, Xia Jia), and more. Follow Sheila on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SheilaWilliam10) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/sheilawilliams_asimovs/) • More information at http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-399 -sheila -williams • Support the Virtual Memories Show via https://patreon.com/vmspod
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