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Episode 2: Live and Sassy with Alan Beatts

At the recent World Fantasy Convention in San Diego, we sat down with Alan Beatts from San Francisco’s Borderlands Books to discuss his article Amazon is Nobody’s Friend.  What followed was a fascinating and disturbing conversation about the future of books and bookstores, and the value of every reader’s ( Read more... )

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EPISODE 35

In which “best” becomes “superior,” Pottermore is Pottermeh, one of us wins all the awards, and we visit/revisit classic non-hard works of SF and Fantasy by Bujold, Willis and Pratchett (with bonus Russian fairytales by Valente).

News

Pottermore announcement made ( Read more... )

Originally published at Champagne and Socks. You can comment here or there.

New episode up! Grab it from iTunes, by direct download or stream it on the site.

In which we bid farewell to Joanna Russ, talk e-publishing (again) and Alisa reads a real live actual book. With bonus raving about Doctor Who and Alistair Reynolds - in other words, another ( Read more... )

It's nearly the end of the year and I want to do a whole Year in Perspective thing. Sit down and look at what I actually achieved and all that. But my brain closed for renovations some time last week and I can't make it reboot. Couldn't even figure out how to make a coffee about an hour ago in the kitchen. Working on TPP has grounded to a halt and ( Read more... )

I finally got the next episode of Twelfth Planet Cast up tonight.

Episode 5 features Tansy Rayner Roberts' response to the mash up books - you know like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Anna Kareninja (which would be the freaking line for me if I hadn't see Romeo and Juliet and Vampires which sent me over the edge). Tansy though takes somewhat ( Read more... )

[the management would like to note that Alisa gave up sugar this week and thus anything she says should be considered with that in mind]

In which the paradigm keeps shifting, Jasper Fforde writes dystopia, Alisa still hates pirate stories, George Lucus ruined it for the rest of us, and we wonder whether there are still readers who think you ( Read more... )

And then my friends skyped me and we recorded episode 10 of Galactic Suburbia as the Australian Labor Party called a spill ...

News

Maureen Johnson’s Manifesto, on branding & Tansy’s blog post on the same topic
Small Beer Press announce upcoming publication of a collection by Karen Joy Fowler, What I Didn’t See & Other Stories
British Fantasy Awards ( Read more... )

Over the weekend Twelfth Planet Cast Episode 4 went live with Alex reading Angela Slatter's story from Sprawl - "Brisneyland by Night". You can download/listen to it here or subscribe to the podcast over at iTunes.

Also, thanks to looneymoth for the heads up - Tina Connolly's story from Shiny Issue 2, "The Goats Are Going Places", was featured in PodCastle ( Read more... )

I'm not awesome at keeping my ipod up to date with new episodes of podcasts I am subscribed to so I tend to go from feast to famine. At the moment though I have a bit of a feast and I seemed to be in the car a bit the last couple of days so I've been catching up with all my favourite hosts ( Read more... )