On October 13, 2010, Kim Stanley Robinson, Terry Bisson and Gary Philips, three writers in PM Press's Outspoken Authors series (Robinson's The Lucky Strike), met up in a panel in CounterPULSE in San Francisco, and had a chat on politics in fiction:

It’s only a story; or is it? Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Noir conspire as three of PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series discuss the problems, pitfalls and possibilities of writing fiction from a revolutionary perspective. Kim Stanley Robinson is the Hugo-winning author of Red Mars and Galileo’s Dream. Terry Bisson is an award winning short story writer and the biographer of Mumia Abu Jamal and Nat Turner. And LA’s own Gary Phillips “combines politics and storytelling as well as any writer of crime fiction” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine). Co-Presented by PM Press.

KSR spoke on H G Wells, cyberpunk, science and utopia, Calvin and Hobbes and other topics. Terry Bisson moderated the panel, and the entire panel was uploaded on YouTube:

• Part 1

• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Q&A Part 1 (from which an extract that is bound to go viral is here: KSR on the denial of the genre)
• Q&A Part 2