Galactic Suburbia turns 17
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In which we talk about awesome women, excellent short stories, and make Alisa throw away a book! Our pet topic is film-to-book, book-to-film and why you’d want to move a story from format to format.
News
The Winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2010 announced.
FemSpec: announcement of new feminist press (via Aqueduct Press).
365 Days of Women Writers blog.
New podcast: Helen Merrick and Tama Leaver do Pangalactic Interwebs.
What have we been reading/listening to?
Tansy: Diana Comet, Zombies v. Unicorns
Alisa: Watching: Moon.
Listening: Bad Film Diaries, also first ep of Pangalactic Interwebs.
Embargoed Reading 😦 sigh for Aurealis Awards and TPP 2011
Toss out for the week: Succubus in the City
Alex: Subterranean (spring and summer), Is Anybody out There? (ed. Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern), Glitter Rose, Marianne de Pierres.
Pet Subject
book –> film –> book
– why make films of books?
– what makes a good film adaptation?
– conversely, why make books of films, why do they get less attention, can they be as good as the film?
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Randomly Yours, Alex 