Two Chairs Talking

Perry and David, and their guest Leigh Edmonds talk about:

Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan

Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

Problem of walled gardens of content

Geographical restrictions on content

Interview with Leigh Edmonds

Both past and future are unknowable

England in the 17th Century

Both SF and history written for the present

History of Technology

Tax office as example of technological change

History of Australia as a struggle to overcome distance

Science Fiction and history

The reason to read SF

History of SF fandom

Period of radical change in Australia

The sub-cultures of Melbourne

The change in Australian culture

SF floods into the country

The Sydney Push

Importance of letters and fanzines in early years

Fundamental change due to computers

Difficulty of publishing a fanzine

Fanzine publishing before WWII

Passing on technique

Why the history of fandom needs to be written about

Windup

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Perry and David talk about:

Hugo Short Fiction

Hugo Time Machine 1953

The Demolished Man

Galaxy Magazine

Hugo Novels

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Revanant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee

The Expanse Series by James S. A. Corey

Standard Ebooks

Copyright

Such is Life by Joseph Furphy

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

All is True movie

Wind-up

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Perry and David talk about:

Introduction

Hugo Season

Hugo Nominees

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

Australian Crime Fiction

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume

Bony Novels by Arthur Upfield

Scrublands by Chris Hammer

Moon - with Sam Rockwell

Windup

Welcome to our second episode! In this episode Perry Middlemiss and David Grigg talk about:

Introduction

Fixup

David's introduction to reading

SF Novellas

Murderbot Series

Binti Series

Wayward Children Series

The Power

Generation Starships

Passengers

Aurora by KSR

Book of the New Sun

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Mortal Engines

Doing Justice

Peak Geekdom

Dark is Rising Series

50 years of SF Commentary

This is the very first episode of Two Chairs Talking, in which David Grigg and Perry Middlemiss, both ex-chairmen of World Science Fiction Conventions talk about:

Introduction

Genres

Australian Poetry

How Do You Read So Many Books?

Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

Setting Quotas

Records of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

Nominations

Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton

Possession by A. S. Byatt