Two Chairs Talking

David and Perry return to their love of crime, and discuss both newly released titles in the genre and some old classics.

The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan (10:08)

The Survivors by Jane Harper (08:40)

A Legacy of Spies by John Le Carre (08:28)

The Searcher by Tana French (15:05)

Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith (04:39)

Rules for Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson (05:38)

Resurrection Bay by Emma Viskic (01:55)

Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (02:16)

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (07:23)

Windup (02:57)

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Perry and David discuss their recent reading, ranging over a wide range of genres.

Coronavirus state of play (02:53)

Internet Archive looking for donations (01:43)

World Fantasy Awards (02:04)

Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender (00:57)

Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (00:23)

Read After Burning by Maria Dahvana Headley (00:33)

Crime Writers Association Awards (03:02)

Good Girl, Bad Girl by Michael Robotham (02:38)

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (18:00)

Interview with Susanna Clarke in The Guardian (00:13)

Interview with Susanna Clarke in the Hindustani Times (02:24)

Heatwave in Berlin by Dymphna Cusack (06:38)

The Silence by Susan Allott (08:36)

A Song for a New Day by Sarah Pinkster (07:36)

The Mother Fault by Kate Mildenhall (04:22)

Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James (06:11)

How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang (07:25)

Wind-up (01:36)

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David and Perry visit the Eastern Block and discuss novels by Stanisław Lem and the Strugatsky brothers, and the films based on two of their books.

Ebooks or paper books? (05:02)

Going East (00:30)

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (20:00)

Solaris (movie) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (12:20)

Solaris (movie) directed by Steven Soderberg (14:15)

Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (11:48)

Stalker (movie) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (26:11)

Windup (00:43)

Image: still from Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker. Used here for purposes of review, fair use copyright exemption.

Perry and David have fun talking about BIG objects in science fiction, from flying cities to spheres totally enclosing stars.

Megastructures (06:36)

Cities in Flight by James Blish (06:05)

Feersum Endjinn by Ian M. Banks (04:32)

Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke (00:39)

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (00:23)

The Web Between the Worlds by Charles Sheffield (03:28)

Eon by Greg Bear (06:14)

Marrow by Robert Reed (09:17)

Pellucidar Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs (07:10)

Dyson Spheres (01:50)

Tabby Boyajian's Star (01:14)

Star Classifications (01:36)

Orbitsville by Bob Shaw (05:47)

Other big objects in SF (10:19)

Riverworld Series by Phillip Jose Farmer (02:15)

Bowl of Heaven by Larry Niven and Greg Benford (01:32)

Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner (02:11)

Culture Series by Ian M. Banks (04:10)

Windup (01:21)

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David and Perry discuss the centenary of the coining of the word ‘robot’, the winner of the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and take the Hugo Time Machine whizzing back to the year 1964.

R. U. R. by Karel Čapek (03:44)

Arthur C. Clarke Award (03:09)

The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell (02:28)

Hugo Time Machine~1964 (01:17:03)

Glory Road by Robert Heinlein (02:59)

Witch World by Andre Norton (06:35)

Dune World by Frank Herbert (11:25)

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (08:09)

Way Station by Clifford Simak (12:11)

Voting results - Novels 1964 (02:06)

Other possible novel nominees for 1964 (01:17)

1964 Short Fiction (00:24)

Code Three by Rick Raphael (03:43)

Savage Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs (04:40)

A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny (07:49)

No Truce With Kings by Poul Anderson (05:26)

Voting results - Short Fiction 1964 (01:28)

Other possible short fiction nominees 1964 (01:43)

Internet Archive, SF Database, etc. (02:29)

Other Hugo Awards in 1964 (02:23)

Wind-up (01:08)

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Perry and David talk about novels which blur the boundaries between genres: literary novels with strong elements of fantasy or science fiction. We can call them "genre adjacent" fiction.

Children of Men by P. D. James (00:23)

Never Let Me Go and The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (00:52)

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (04:34)

A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer (08:28)

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (07:36)

The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay (08:27)

The Second Cure by Margaret Morgan (00:57)

Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson (10:19)

The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott (08:43)

What the Wind Brings by Matthew Hughes (12:43)

Interview with Matthew Hughes (21:09)

What the Wind Brings (11:29)

Vance Space novel (07:58)

A God in Chains (01:12)

Windup (01:44)

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David and Perry farewell John Bangsund, a stalwart of the Australian science fiction community; and look at three movies directed by Terry Gilliam: Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 Monkeys.

Vale John Bangsund (09:12)

Terry Gilliam (41:07)

Time Bandits (11:26)

Brazil (14:36)

12 Monkeys (09:26)

La Jetée (04:24)

Windup/Next Episode (02:00)

Image: Jonathan Pryce in the movie Brazil. Photo reproduced here for purposes of review (fair use copyright exemption).

David and Perry farewell John Bangsund, a stalwart of the Australian science fiction community; and look at three movies directed by Terry Gilliam: Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 Monkeys.

Vale John Bangsund (09:12)

Terry Gilliam (41:07)

Time Bandits (11:26)

Brazil (14:36)

12 Monkeys (09:26)

La Jetée (04:24)

Windup/Next Episode (02:00)

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Image: Jonathan Pryce in the movie Brazil. Photo reproduced here for purposes of review (fair use copyright exemption).

Perry and David return to a life of crime! Well, reading about crime, anyway. They discuss:

Under the lockdown (01:41)

Corrections (06:10)

Kim Huett's articles on the history of the Hugo Awards.

What we've been reading (01:14)

The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey (06:48)

The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (00:25)

The View from Chickweed's Window by Jack Vance (06:05)

Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay (08:14)

An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire (05:52)

The Ruin and The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan (13:29)

Where the Dead Go by Sarah Bailey (06:54)

Raven Black by Anne Cleeves (07:15)

Truth by Peter Temple (08:35)

Wind-up (00:16)

Plans for next episodes (00:55)

Photo of Shetland by Neil Roger on Flickr

Perry and David return to a life of crime! Well, reading about crime, anyway. They discuss:

Under the lockdown (01:41)

Corrections (06:10)

Kim Huett's articles on the history of the Hugo Awards.

What we've been reading (01:14)

The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey (06:48)

The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (00:25)

The View from Chickweed's Window by Jack Vance (06:05)

Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay (08:14)

An Isolated Incident by Emily Maguire (05:52)

The Ruin & The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan (13:29)

Where the Dead Go by Sarah Bailey (06:54)

Raven Black by Anne Cleeves (07:15)

Truth by Peter Temple (08:35)

Wind-up (00:16)

Plans for next episodes (00:55)

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Photo of Shetland by Neil Roger on Flickr