Staggering Stories

[neadods]

I wanted to throw in yet another plug for the Staggering Stories podcast. Yes, I like it - enough to put up with hour and a half shows when my attention span is closer to 25 minutes. Yes, it provides a fairly comprehensive sweep of SF in addition to Who - at the moment I'm listening to Crumbly's overview of Harry Harrison's books

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[persiflage_1]

I've just grabbed the latest one to listen to later - it was the "Nanny Ogg" mention at the end that got me!

[neadods]

Extremely Nanny Ogg - they get into one of those giggle fits where everything has a smutty meaning.

[persiflage_1]

Excellent! I'm just about to have my daily phone chat with my mum, then I'll listen to it.

[neadods]

Tell me what you think!

[badgermirlacca]

as Who fandom continues to chew over the staggering entitlement of Walker's selfish and lightfingered "flattery,"

See, this is why I'm never really going to be a fannish fan. I have absolutely no idea what this refers to, or where it's being discussed. Irretrievably mundane, that's me.

[neadods]

I've mentioned it earlier, without names. Someone writing an unauthorized Torchwood book bolstered it with large chunks of reviews lifted with name attribution but without permission or warning from LJ posts. When the authors of the posts got upset about having their words taken for the author's profit, he and his fellow owners of the publishing house got amazingly abusive and dismissive of them over on Outpost Gallifrey - they were supposed to be flattered that they were considered good enough to lift, and there are no legal repercussions for not asking permission.

Unfortunately for Walker, who has since flounced from LJ, there are *social* repercussions, fannish ones, and yes, professional ones as well - no book or author from Telos will never see a plugged nickel of mine. And as an author I won't just moan on LJ if the work I give away freely is stolen for another's profit.

[badgermirlacca]

Ah so.

Would serve him right if BBC took a page from JK Rowling and sued the pants off him. I wonder if he asserted moral ownership of the copyright under Berne--that would make him particularly vulnerable, especially if someone saved the Outpost Gallifrey comments.