Signal Boost

On today’s Signal Boost, Jen remembers that we have a listener suggestion form, and so we FINALLY talk about the questions that one intrepid listener is dying to know! Actually, it’s mostly Shaun talking about the answers while Jen nods sagely. What are those questions? Well, listen to the episode and you too will know the truth about SFF canon. Or at least Shaun’s version of the truth. Especially since the conclusion we come to is that basically we all get to make our own canon. So, HA!

After Shaun is all done ranting talking about canon, we get to our Mini-Boosts!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Signal Boost #19 — Download (MP3)

Show Notes:

* I’m sorry.

Mini-Boosts:

* Shaun’s Boosts:

* An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard

* CubeFit Standing Desk

* Jen’s Boosts:

* EcoPunk! Anthology Kickstarter

* Augur Magazine Kickstarter

Our new intro music comes “The Launch” by Chronox (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.

That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next time.

In today’s episode of Signal Boost, Michael J. Martinez, author of The Daedaelus Trilogy, joins Paul to talk about the second book of his Majestic-12 trilogy, MJ-12: Shadows. They discuss how truth is crazier than fiction and how that led to Mike writing a secret history instead of an alternate history.

Then Patrick Hester, a Hugo award winning podcaster and Skiffy and Fanty Arch-Nemesis, joins Jen to talk about his urban fantasy novel, Samantha Kane: Into the Fire. They talk about how Patrick found the voice of Samantha Kane and how Into the Fire sets itself apart from most urban fantasy with its focus on family relationships.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Signal Boost #18 — Download (MP3)

Show Notes:

* Michael J. Martinez (00:55 – 14:22)

* Mike’s Website

* Mike’s Twitter

* MJ-12: Shadows(GO BUY IT!)

* Patrick Hester (14:45 – 33:15)

* Patrick’s Website

* Patrick’s Twitter

* SF Signal Podcast Archive

* Functional Nerds Podcast

* Samantha Kane: Into the Fire (GO BUY THIS TOO!)

Our new intro music comes “The Launch” by Chronox (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.

That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next time.

On today’s Signal Boost, Shaun and Jen discuss a few things that had them either shaking their head “WTF?” or screaming “WTF?!,” including the rise and fall of a wanna-be NYT Bestselling YA novel, agism directed at a dear friend, and the conservative military SFF community’s response to the upcoming Space Marine Midwives Anthology. Warning, there is colorful language in this one.

Once they get their anger out, they share this week’s Mini-Boosts — a couple of fundraisers and a couple of fun things!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Signal Boost #17 — Download (MP3)

Show Notes:

* Lani Sarem & Handbook for Mortals

* NYT Pulls Book From Best-Seller List Over Suspicious Sales

* The Brief, Tumultuous Reign of An Erstwhile Best-Seller

* Blues Traveler’s John Popper on the New York Times best-seller scam: ‘Justice was done’

* Author Removed From New York Times Best-Seller List Fires Back at Critics

* Sarah Chorn the Awesome

* Bookworm Blues

* Sarah’s Twitter

* Space Marine Midwives Anthology Submission Guidelines

Mini-Boosts:

* Shaun’s Boosts:

* Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Prime Meridian Fund Drive

* An Excess Male

* Jen’s Boosts:

* Strange Horizons Fund Drive

* 17776 – A Football Story

Our new intro music comes “The Launch” by Chronox (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.

That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next time.

In today’s episode of Signal Boost, Fran Wilde, author and tech consultant, joins Paul to dive into the final book in her Bone Universe series, Horizon. Fran and Paul discuss some of the worldbuilding and where this newest book takes us. Then Bogi Takács, writer of short-form speculative fiction, joins Jen to talk about Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, and anthology they just edited for Lethe Press. Bogi talks about how they got involved, what it means to them, and the kinds of stories that you’ll find in the anthology.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Fran Wilde – 0:55 – 20:45

Bogi Takács – 21:08 – 36:26

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Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Signal Boost #16 — Download (MP3)

Show Notes:

* Fran Wilde

* Fran’s Website

* Fran’s Twitter

* Horizon (GO BUY IT!)

* Bogi Takács

* Bogi’s Website

* Bogi’s Twitter

* Bogi’s Patreon

* Transcendent 2: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction (GO BUY THIS TOO!)

Our new intro music comes “The Launch” by Chronox (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.

That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next time.

On today’s psuedo-Signal Boost, Shaun, Paul, and our resident WSFS expert, Alex, recap the Helsinki WorldCon WSFS Business meeting LIVE from WorldCon (ok, so not exactly live, but it’s as close as we get). Alex shares the nitty-gritty, the grim and ugly, the wonderful and the strange, that occured at the Helsinki WSFS business meeting, including the news that we now have a YA award (which is, as of now, nameless)! Yay! Also, an update on all the fun of the anti-slate voting measures that were put into place. A lot of stuff happens at the WSFS meetings regarding the Hugo Awards, so it’s worth paying attention to and getting involved with if you can. The team also share their impressions of the Helsinki Convention as a whole!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Signal Boost #15 — Download (MP3)

Show Notes:

* WorldCon 75 in Helsinki

* The World Science Fiction Society

* WSFS Website

* Helsinki Business Meeting

* Alex Acks’ WSFS Business Meeting Recaps

Our new intro music comes “The Launch” by Chronox (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.

That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next time.

In today’s episode of Signal Boost, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry and Dominik Parisien join Paul to talk about the Uncanny Magazine Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction and Year Four Kickstarter. Elsa is the Non-Fiction Editor and Dominik is the Fiction Editor for the special edition of Uncanny Magazine focusing on disability representation in Science Fiction and Fantasy. They talk about why this issue is important to them personally and to the field of SF&F, the perks of backing the kickstarter, and the awesome contributors they’ve already lined up. Then Dave Robison, co-host of the podcast formerly known as Roundtable, joins Paul to talk about the reboot of his podcast in conjunction with his new story mapping software, Archivos, which goes into beta on September 1, 2017.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Signal Boost #14 — Download (MP3)

Show Notes:

* Uncanny Magazine

* Uncanny Magazine‘s Website

* Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction and Year Four Kickstarter

* Uncanny Magazine on Twitter

* Elsa Sjunneson-Henry

* Elsa’s Website

* Elsa’s Twitter

* Dominik Parisien

* Dominik’s Website

* Dominik’s Twitter

* Archivos

* Archivos Website

* Archivos Podcast Network

* Archivos Story App Twitter

* Archivos Podcast Twitter

Our new intro music comes “The Launch” by Chronox (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.

That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next time.

In today’s episode of Signal Boost, Nicky Drayden (a debut author!) joins Stina (in her debut as host!) to talk about the crazy genre mash-up, The Prey of Gods, the journey to becoming a debut author, and how she’s working on a pipeline to encourage Black speculative fiction writers through ArmadilloCon. Then, Jen is joined by Wendy Wagner, associate/managing editor of Lightspeed & Nightmare magazines, to talk about her new novel, An Oath of Dogs; they also talk about why she chose to focus on blue-collar workers in Science Fiction, explore man’s relationship with dogs, and what it took to make the jump from Pathfinder novels to one set in her own world.

(And yes, it’s a total coincidence that we happen to have on two authors whose titles are palindromes of each other)

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Signal Boost #13 — Download (MP3)

Show Notes:

* Nicky Drayden’s Stuff

* Nicky on Twitter

* Nicky’s Website

* The Prey of Gods

* Wendy Wagner’s Stuff:

* Wendy’s Twitter

* Wendy’s Website

* An Oath of Dogs

* ArmadilloCon Writer’s Workshop

Our new intro music comes “The Launch” by Chronox (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.

That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next time.

On today’s Signal Boost, Shaun and Jen discuss conventions, the economics of attendance, and how they can be more inclusive. They’re particularly concerned with how convention culture tends to be somewhat exclusive, how conventions often fail utterly at disability access, and how something called WorldCon should MAYBE travel around the world a bit more.

Then they squeeeeeee about this week’s mini-boosts. Make sure you let us know about things that YOU love that we should share in future boosts!

*Note: Jen conflates SFWA with WSFS. SFWA is NOT in charge of the Hugos, WSFS is!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Note:  If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show!

Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Signal Boost #12 — Download (MP3)

Show Notes:

* Conventions Mentioned:

* NASFiC

* WorldCon

* WorldCon 75: Helsinki

* CONvergence

* MileHiCon

* Denver Comic Con

* Comic-Con International: San Diego

* Mini-Boosts:

* Shaun’s Boosts:

* Daína Chaviano

* Daína Chaviano’s Website

* Daína Chaviano on SF Encyclopedia

* Vox Robotika – Spanish Language SF Podcast

* https://voxrobotika.podbean.com/

* Jen’s Boosts:

* Originality Podcast

* www.relay.fm/originality

* We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comic Anthology Kickstarter 

* https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1855150928/were-still-here-an-all-trans-comics-anthology

Our new intro music comes “The Launch” by Chronox (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.

That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next time.

In today’s episode of Signal Boost, Tanya DePass, founder and director of I Need Diverse Games, joins Jen to talk about the importance of diversity in games and the gaming industry, supporting diverse gamers, and the upcoming anthology, From the Margins, a collection of personal essays from marginalized individuals in the game industry (currently accepting submissions). Then Shaun is joined by Hope Nicholson, author of The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwoman and editor of Love Beyond Body, Space, & Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology, to talk about writing about comic book history from a woman’s perspective and the importance of promoting Indigenous voices through projects like her anthology.

We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Signal Boost #11 — Download (MP3)

Show Notes:

* Tanya DePass’ Stuff

* Personal

* Tanya on Twitter

* Tanya’s Website

* Support Tanya on Patreon

* I Need Diverse Games

* I Need Diverse Games on Twitter

* I Need Diverse Games Website

* Support I Need Diverse Games on Patreon

* GenCon Fundraiser

* From the Margins Anthology: http://cypheroftyr.com/marginsantho

* Questions for anthology should go to: [email protected] Submissions close August 15th

* Other contact: [email protected] [email protected]

* Hope Nicholson’s Stuff:

* Hope’s Website

* Hope’s Twitter

* The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen

* Love Beyond Body, Space, & Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology

Our new intro music comes “The Launch” by Chronox (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.

That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next time.

On today’s Signal Boost, Shaun and Jen COMPLETELY lose track of what they were supposed to be talking about, end up pitching an Alien Nation reboot (after discussing what made it so 90s), and discuss Supergirl and positive relationships between men in Flash. Honestly, we don’t even know what we’re talking about, but for American Independence day, we’re challenging toxic masculinity and racism. Boom.

Plus, we lay down the awesome with our miniboosts!

We hope you enjoy the episode!

Note:  If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show!

Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Signal Boost #10 — Download (MP3)

Show Notes:

The Shows:

* Alien Nation (1989-1990)(note: it was followed by several TV movies throughout the 90s)

* Supergirl (2015-Present)

* The Flash (2014-Present)

Mini-Boosts:

* Jen’s Boosts:

* FIYAH

* Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction

* Fiyah on Twitter

* Levar Burton Reads

* Lever Burton Reads Podcast

* Levar Burton on Twitter

* Shaun’s Boosts:

* Breaking the Glass Slipper Podcast

* Harney & Sons Fine Teas

Our new intro music comes “The Launch” by Chronox (CC BY 4.0), which has been slightly modified to include sound effects and for length purposes.

That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next time.