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EPISODE 38 Shownotes

In which none of your fearless podcasters are impregnated by mysterious aliens for the duration of a single episode, nor do any of us experience a rapidly accelerated pregnancy or give birth to an otherworldly demon/alien/vampire. Also: Batgirl, ( Read more... )

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Secondly, Galactic Suburbia got an absolutely awesome review over on Hoyden About Town on Friday. I think what I love most about this review is how much it captures how I see the podcast and how well I think we are meeting what we hope the podcast to be:

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- went live yesterday!

SHOW NOTES

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

In which we discuss the SF Gateway and some great additions to the Women in SF conversation, Alex eats all the Bujold in one bite, and Alisa’s puppy does ( Read more... )

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Our Joanna Russ special episode of Galactic Suburbia is up! Grab it from iTunes, by direct download or stream it on the site.

Featuring:

How To Suppress Women’s Writing, by Joanna Russ

The Female Man, by Joanna Russ

“When it Changed,” by Joanna Russ

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I have another post to follow the last but right now I am finishing up my reading for the Special Russ Galactic Suburbia episode later tonight. Thee is nothing to soothe one’s feminist ails like reading Russ, I guess.

There used to be an odd, popular, and erroneous idea that ( 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... )

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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... )

There’s a new episode up! Grab it from iTunes or stream it on the site. You will be able to direct download it tomorrow.

EPISODE 24

In which we flit over the first shortlist of the year and some charitable links, sweep though a fortnight of culture consumed, and then leap with both feet into the pet subject of Inside Indie Press.

News

BSFA Awards ( Read more... )

Having gotten that last post out of the way ... the highlights ( Read more... )

I've been very busy of late doing things and have been lax in reporting in here :)

We recorded Galactic Suburbia Episode 13 last week. We talked about the value of awards. And I think we mentioned we shall be at Worldcon! Yay!!

I figured out all the maths - mostly to do with postage options as this book is 342pp - and Sprawl is now available for ( Read more... )