Galactic Suburbia Episode 15.0 Worldcon Special Show Notes
September 9th, 2010 at 13:39It’s up! You can download/stream our “live” Worldcon episode directly from our Galactic Suburbia site, or from iTunes.
Live from Aussiecon4, speaking from the entirely unsuburban wasteland of downtown Melbourne, Alisa, Alex and Tansy faced an audience of real people, and managed to keep their chatter to a 50 minute podcast. SHOCK. Some awards news, Worldcon gossip, what we are reading and our pet topic: female heroes in SF & Fantasy.
News
World Fantasy Nominations
Sir Julius Vogel Awards Winners
European SF Society Awards
Fave bits of Aussiecon4 so far.
What have we been reading/listening to?
Alex: Beastly Bride, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling; Legends of Australian Fantasy, ed. Jonathan Strahan and Jack Dann; Secret Feminist Cabal, Helen Merrick;
Tansy: Shades of Milk & Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal; The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins; Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor
Alisa: Death Most Definite, Trent Jamieson.
Pet Subject: Female heroes in SF/F
As ever, please send feedback to galacticsuburbia@gmail.com or to our Twitter account @galacticsuburbs. We’d especially love to hear your response to our “live” episode, or your highlights from Aussiecon.
Over the next week we’ll be putting up a series of mini-eps from the convention, including our post-Ditmars round up, our post-Hugos round up, a omg-the-convention-is-over round up, and an interview between Alex and Phil & Kaja Foglio of Girl Genius fame. Was Jake Flinthart correct to accuse her of giggling? Find out!
On a personal note, thanks to everyone who came to the panel, or talked to us at the con about Galactic Suburbia. We were blown away by how many people have listened to us, bought books we recced, and wanted to say hi. Extra special mention to Celia, who apparently DID have an awesome Worldcon, and to the woman who recognised Alisa & Alex gossiping in the row behind her at the Hugos, because SHE KNEW WHAT THEIR VOICES SOUNDED LIKE.
Classic.
Tags: aussiecon, galactic suburbia, podcasting, show notes, worldcon
September 9th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
[...] a personal note (stolen from Tansy), thanks to everyone who came to the panel, or talked to us at the con about Galactic Suburbia. We [...]
September 9th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Your description of Shades Of Milk and Honey caught my attention so much that I went straight on the itnerwbs when I got home and ordered the book…then discovered on Monday that I’d ordered it twice from different places. Clearly one shouldn’t do interwebs shopping after a day at Aussiecon!
September 9th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Hee well I did also say it made a good gift. Hope you like it enough to justify the double dip.
One of my favourite bits of Worldcon was when a chap called Richard produced two of my books for my to sign, and was also holding The King’s Bastard by Rowena Cory Daniells. “Did you tell me to buy this?” he said. “Not sure why, but something made me do it.”
September 10th, 2010 at 8:30 am
Yay, special mention! I really enjoyed seeing you guys do this show live, and definitely want to get myself a copy of Milk and Honey now. Oh, and I’ve almost finished Death Most Definite, which is great.
Um, and confession – it was also me that recognised Alisa & Alex behind me at the Hugos. I am not stalking Galactica Suburbia, I swear! It was a little weird to be vaguely listening to the buzz around me and think, hang on, those voices sound very familiar
September 10th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Hahaha not sure if that makes the anecdote more or less awesome. I’m going to go with MORE.