Galactic Suburbia

In which we eat cake, celebrate our tenth birthday, and say goodbye.

Cake

Reminiscences & Podcast recs

 

The Guilty Feminist

The Good Place, The Podcast

Be The Serpent

As my Wimsey Takes Me

Antimatter Pod: https://antimatterpod.podbean.com 

NEWS

 

Nebula finalists https://www.tor.com/2020/02/20/announcing-the-2019-nebula-awards-finalists/ 

Hugo noms are closing

Tansy’s Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/castlecharming/castle-charming

CULTURE CONSUMED:

 

Alisa: Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists, Jane Rawson; The City We Became, N K Jemisin (also her short story The City Born Great in How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?); Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist

 

Tansy: Birds of Prey (& Harley Quinn), Six the Musical (Sydney), Future culture: https://www.serialbox.com/serials/jessica-jones, Black Friday (StarKid)

 

Alex: For All Mankind, on Apple TV; Altered Carbon S2; Elysium, Jennifer Marie Brissett; Amelia Peabody (Elizabeth Peters) and Mary Russell (Laurie R King)

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In which Galactic Suburbia has a sad announcement, and the word ‘penultimate’ is used...

WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET:

Nominating for the Hugos

CULTURE CONSUMED:

Alisa: The Good Place; Picard S1 Ep 1-2.

Tansy: Moontangled, by Stephanie Burgis, The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite, Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell, Supernatural Season 15 (first 5 eps)

Alex: many books over the holidays. Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E Harrow; Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir; A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine; Come Tumbling Down, Seanan McGuire.

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In which we finally complete the Joanna Russ book club in our final ep for 2019!

 

Tansy - Terror Australis

 

Alex goes to Broadside, The Wheeler Centre’s festival of feminist ideas, and is confronted by whiteness. (https://broadside.wheelercentre.com)

 

WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET:

 

Rebuilding Tomorrow crowdfunded - postponed

JOANNA RUSS BOOK CLUB: Author’s Note and Afterword

CULTURE CONSUMED:

 

Alisa: the great Twelfth Planet Press move (again)

 

Tansy: The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter, Theodora Goss; The Crown; Big Finish: Cicero; Dead Media by John Richards; 

 

Alex: Infomocracy, Malka Older; The Name of the Rose (tv series); White Tears/ Brown Scars, Ruby Hamad

 

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In which an Epilogue is not always the end of the book…

 

WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET:

 

Rebuilding Tomorrow https://www.pozible.com/project/rebuilding-tomorrow/

 

“Otherwise” Award: https://tiptree.org/2019/10/from-tiptree-to-otherwise 

JOANNA RUSS BOOK CLUB: Epilogue (BUT STILL NOT THE END)

38:20 to 58:45

CULTURE CONSUMED:

 

Alisa: Good Omens; The Good Place

 

Tansy: Romances: Alyssa Cole’s Reluctant Royals & Lucy Parker’s London Celebrities, The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter & The Gilded Cage by KJ Charles. Killjoys & Crazy Ex Girlfriend, Jane the Virgin. 

 

Alex: Orphan Black; The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley; The Old Lie, Claire G Coleman; Dolly Parton’s America: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america 

 

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In which we tackle aesthetics, astounding name changes, and leave you the Danger Mouse theme tune.

 

WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET:

 

Winter’s Tale Kickstarter fully funded!

 

Hugo winners: https://locusmag.com/2019/08/2019-hugo-and-campbell-awards-winners/ 

The Campbell Award/Astounding Award, Codes of Conduct, and such: http://file770.com/storm-over-campbell-award/ 

 

https://theastoundinganalogcompanion.com/2019/08/27/a-statement-from-the-editor/

JOANNA RUSS BOOK CLUB: 1:21:15 to 1:49:05

 

How to Suppress Women’s Writing: Chapter 11

 

PSA for Australians: Glitch season 3 is on ABC iView, completely. 

 

No culture this week, too much talking! 

 

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In light of recent discussions, Julie Phillips has commented on the question of whether or not Alli Sheldon and her husband Ting had a suicide pact, an issue that she felt she was not clear enough about in the final chapters of her biography. https://twitter.com/jcfphillips/status/1168267581708546049

In which we struggle with responses, and Winter’s Tale is coming…

WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET:

World Fantasy Finalists https://www.tor.com/2019/07/25/announcing-the-2019-world-fantasy-award-finalists/

CSFG Kickstarter -- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/csfg/unnatural-order

Coming this week: the next Twelfth Planet Press Kickstarter! Winter’s Tale by Nike Sulway & Shauna O’Meara

 

JOANNA RUSS BOOK CLUB:

How to Suppress Women’s Writing: Chapter 10 Responses: 

CULTURE CONSUMED: 

Alisa:  The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers Wayfarers series;  Geek Actually S1 (Serial Box)

Alex: Machineries of Empire (inc Hexarchate Stories), Yoon Ha Lee; New Suns, ed. Nisi Shawl; Good Omens

Tansy: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, Spider-Man,The Spy who Dumped Me, Good Omens

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In which we consider renaming our podcast to Houston, We Have A Podcast, but someone else got in first...

FEEDBACK: From Rachel & Phillip

WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET:

Ditmars: https://locusmag.com/2019/06/2019-ditmar-awards-winners/

Norma: https://normakhemmingaward.org

No Joanna Russ Book Club this week, but read How to Suppress Women’s Writing: Chapter 10 Responses for next episode!

CULTURE CONSUMED:

Tansy: Harry Potter & The Cursed Child (Princess Theatre, Melbourne), Last Pen Standing by Vivian Conroy, Big Finish blitz (Torchwood: Ghost Mission, Goodbye Piccadilly, Broken, The Green Life), Evelina, Frances Burney

Alex: The Meg;  all of Haven; most of my Hugo reading; Robots vs Fairies, ed. Navah Wolfe and Dominik Parisien

 

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In which we consider our role models and lost history, plus awards season is hotting up!

 

WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET: 

Hugos: https://locusmag.com/2019/04/2019-hugo-and-campbell-awards-finalists/

BSFA: https://locusmag.com/2019/04/2018-bsfa-winners/

Norma: https://normakhemmingaward.org

 

JOANNA RUSS BOOK CLUB: 

How to Suppress Women’s Writing: Chapter 9, Models (38:30)

 

CULTURE CONSUMED: 

Alisa: Santa Clarita Diet S3; Discovery!; Sabrina S2; Your Favourite Band Cannot Save You, Scotto Moore; Dread Nation, Justina Ireland

Tansy: Five Unicorn Flush by TJ Berry, The Women’s War by Jenna Glass, The Royals

Alex: Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez; a lot of Marvel; Perihelion Summer, Greg Egan; The City, not long after, Pat Murphy

 

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In which we are not an anomaly, because there are three of us.

FEEDBACK:

Dave & Clara

 

WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET:

Tiptree winner and shortlist: https://tiptree.org/news

 

JOANNA RUSS BOOK CLUB:

(time stamp 21:25 to 58:15)

How to Suppress Women’s Writing: Chapter 8: Anomalousness

 

CULTURE CONSUMED:

Alisa: Wingspan

Alex: three seasons of Lucifer; Captain Marvel; The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie; Alastair Reynolds: Shadow Captain, and “Zima Blue” and “Beyond the Aquila Rift” on Love, Death and Robots (Netflix)

Tansy: Captain Marvel, The Custard Protocol by Gail Carriger, The Magpie Lord, KJ Charles, Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufman, The Atraea Conspiracy, Village Pillage

 

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It’s our 200th episode! Let there be cake.

This month:

CAKE

What deliciousness are you pairing with this month’s episode?

 

WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET

Aurealis noms: https://aurealisawards.org

Nebula noms: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/2018-nebula-finalists-announced/

Tansy news: Creature Court release, and Nullus Anxietas Discworld Convention April 12-14.

Jennifer Kent’s Tiptree TV series in development

https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/movie-news/guillermo-del-toro-jennifer-kent-working-horror-film-together-1181685.html

Also a Tiptree documentary https://roxannesamer.com/tip-alli/

Antimatter Pod: https://antimatterpod.podbean.com

 

JOANNA RUSS BOOK CLUB: (starts around 36:00)

How to Suppress Women’s Writing: Chapter 7, Isolation

CULTURE CONSUMED:

Alisa: Russian Doll; The Umbrella Academy; I Met a Traveler, Connie Willis.

Tansy: ATA Girls, Team Starkid: The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals, Misrule by Jodi McAlister

Alex: Tides of the Titans, Thoraiya Dyer; a lot of Ben Aaronovitch (Peter Grant novels); Umbrella Academy (not finished yet!)

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