{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Steve Cook on humanity for robots, sci-fi, and other writing stuff","description":"Steve Cook is a writer and a teacher. He joins me&amp;nbsp;to discuss his approach to writing &quot;Belina,&quot; a kick-ass robot story, with which he won first place in  Amygdala Magazine's Short Story Competition last year. Steve is an accomplished author and shares insights about&amp;nbsp;writing as a creative medium, creating solid&amp;nbsp;science fiction, placing&amp;nbsp;humanity into nonhuman characters, world building, and just being a fun person.&amp;nbsp; Check out Steve's Blog at www.stevecookfiction.com,&amp;nbsp;and his Podcast: Pocket&amp;nbsp;Fiction. &amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Amygdala Magazine","author_url":"http:\/\/www.amygdalazine.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4414094\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/11859293"}