Hugo, Girl!

It's here! The day everyone who doesn't read a lot of obscure sci-fi has waited for! Your favorite space crones read J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire.

Listen as we delve into our Hogwarts houses, patroni, and wand types. We'll also get into some incredible tangents about magical contracts, house elf legal statuses, and why Haley thought Nagini had boobs.

This month, we read Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids, the first in his Neanderthal Parallax series. (CW: discussion of sexual violence from an early scene in the novel.)

This book is a wild ride — it asks the question "what if Neanderthals became the dominant human species?" that no one ever asked. Neanderthals are all bisexual, take care of the environment, and don't eat any grains. Also, it's unclear if the author has ever met a real-life woman based on some of his characterizations, which we unpack with a hearty laugh.

Show notes:

https://www.sfwriter.com/hoforde.htm

http://www.sfra.org/resources/sfra-review/258.pdf

http://www.sfreviews.net/hominids.html

https://www.vox.com/2015/5/26/8661537/sally-ride-tampons

Howdy fair Hugonauts! This week, we dove into the sci-fi classic "The Left Hand of Darkness" by reigning queen of the genre Ursula K. Leguin. This book won both the Hugo AND Nebula award in 1970, proving that Ms. Leguin is, indeed, the GOAT.

Be sure to look out for diversions into horses and hardtack and Arctic expeditions, oh my!

Our August selection was Neil Gaiman's "American Gods." This book has everything: numerous strange classifications of boobs, trickster gods, overwhelmingly polite midwestern courtesy, and coin tricks.

Show Notes:

https://www.vulture.com/2014/07/neil-gaiman-american-gods-adaptation-starz-bad-idea.html

http://theangryblackwoman.com/2009/11/04/the-appropriateness-of-appropriation/

https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/american-gods-review-starz/

Welcome to Episode 3 of Hugo, Girl! This week we discuss Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man," the inaugural Hugo winner from 1953. We also reveal our Hogwarts houses, too.

Notes:

Great review of TDM and "The Science Fiction Project" elsewhere on this blog is otherwise a delight: http://lovehistory.net/blog/2012/07/21/the-demolished-man-by-alfred-bester-1953/ Howard Chaykin (artist): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Chaykin Link to our book edition: http://www.ibooksinc.com/pages/book.php

Welcome to Episode 2 of Hugo, Girl! This time around, we read Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. This book has everything! Space shrimp, malevolent jellyfish, gelatinous rice pudding love, and more!

Notes:

https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/11/world/africa/himba-namibia-inside-africa/index.html

https://www.tor.com/2015/09/21/of-jellyfish-otjize-and-afrofuturism-binti-by-nnedi-okorafor/

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Hugo, Girl! — Ender's Game: In The Bunner Tuggles. In this first outing, we're venturing into the world of Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

Hugo, Girl! is:

-Amy Salley

-Haley Zapal

-Lori Anderson

and Kevin Anderson does our editing/audio.

Follow us on Instagram at @hugogirlpodcast.

Music by Eon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss

Sources: BOOK-A-MINUTE on rinkworks.com by David J. Parker and Samuel Stoddard

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