Galactic Suburbia 155
Our post-Halloween episode, featuring vampire college students, spider-infested children’s birthday parties, and tiny adorable skeletons. This isn’t even the culture consumed part, it’s our real life! You can get us from iTunes or at Galactic Suburbia.
(sorry for the sound quality of this one, we’re blaming the weather or possibly DEMONS)
The Halloween Update
From birthday parties to Trick or Treating, yes, Halloween is a thing in Australia now.
What’s new on the internet?
World Fantasy Awards winners announced.
CULTURE CONSUMED:
Alisa: Frequency Season 1 ep 1-4, Jessica Jones
Tansy: Hocus Pocus; Octavia Cade: The Convergence of Fairy Tales, Tremontaine 1 & 2, Kelly Robson’s Tremontaine story, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho translated by Anne Carson; Hold Me, Courtney Milan
Alex: Carmilla season 2 and season 0; Jericho rewatch; Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children; The Congress
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Galactic Suburbia 154
In which Wonder Woman and Hillary Clinton both come under fire for being in public while female… get us from iTunes or at Galactic Suburbia.
WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET?
Wonder Woman turns 75 and becomes a UN Ambassador
Analysis of the protest against Wonder Woman as honorary ambassador on the Mary Sue
Twitter: #wonderwoman75
CULTURE CONSUMED
Alisa: Crosstalk, Connie Willis; Bloodchild, Octavia Butler
Alex: Saga vol 6; Bridging Infinity, ed. Jonathan Strahan; The Martian, Andy Weir; Swarm, Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti.
Tansy: Verity Down Under, Supergirl, Luke Cage, Class Eps 1 & 2
Don’t forget: Letters to Octavia Butler open for submissions
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Galactic Suburbia 153
In which letters are written to Octavia Butler. Get us from iTunes or at Galactic Suburbia.
What’s New on the Internet?
British Fantasy Awards: Letters to Tiptree won one!
No Award on Conflux & Asian Flavours in SFF fandom.
Octavia project: Octavia Estelle Butler was born on 22 June, 1947, and died in 2006. In celebration of what would have been her 70th birthday in 2017, and in recognition of Butler’s enormous influence on speculative fiction, and African-American literature more generally, Twelfth Planet Press is publishing a selection of letters and essays written by science fiction and fantasy’s writers, editors, critics and fans.
We are looking for letters addressed to Butler, which should be between 1000 and 1500 words. We are paying 5cpw up to $USD75 for letters, to be paid on publication. We are looking for World First Publication Rights in English, and exclusivity for the first twelve months of publication.
Submissions: octaviaproject@twelfthplanetpress.com
More Butler stuff: Radio Imagination
Tansy’s new releases: Bounty (the final Fablecroft book) & Unmagical Boy Story
CULTURE CONSUMED:
Alisa: Jamberry & business training.
Alex: Once Upon A Time season 2; the Patternmaster series, Octavia Butler; The Starry Rift, James Tiptree Jr; Goldenhand, Garth Nix.
Tansy: The Life & Times of Angel Evans, by Meredith Debonnaire; DC Superhero Girls: Hero of the Year; Revolutionary Art: Writing For Social Justice webinar series; Hex – How to Be a Fan on iView; Labyrinth Board Game Facebook page; Dracula’s Feast on Kickstarter.
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Galactic Suburbia 152
In which Alisa & Tansy are left unsupervised to read feedback, give you the lowdown on the Brangelina break up and discuss how Hillary Clinton and Harley Quinn both have to put up with the same ridiculous gender double standards. You can get us from iTunes or at Galactic Suburbia.
Relevant links:
Garth Nix on Aboriginal stories
The Cost of Building the Death Star
Brangelina is Dead, Long Live Angelina (on Jolie’s handling of the media narrative built around her and her family)
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Galactic Suburbia 151
In which we consume culture and take names! get us from iTunes or at Galactic Suburbia.
WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET?
Tansy’s novel Musketeer Space is half price this week on Kindle (and in other ebook stores)! Price goes back to normal on Wednesday.
CULTURE CONSUMED
Alisa: Vaginal Fantasy; Crosstalk, Connie Willis
Alex: Revenger, Alastair Reynolds; Crossroads of Canopy, Thoraiya Dyer; Stealing Snow, Danielle Paige – abandoned!; The Silk Roads, a New History of the World, Peter Frankopan
Tansy: Superior, Jessica Lack; Fangirl Happy Hour on Ghostbusters: Eps 49, 50 & 52
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Galactic Suburbia 150!
In which we celebrate our 150th episode via cake and Hugo stats, the top two sources of podcaster fuel in the known world. You can get us from iTunes or at Galactic Suburbia.
Read the Hugo Stats along with us by downloading the pdf.
Or just check out the winners.
The Uncanny Magazine acceptance speech: Love wins!
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Galactic Suburbia 149!
In which we compete for gold, silver and bronze medals in chatting.
WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET?
WSFA Small Press Award shortlist released.
Aussie SF Snapshot 2016 – 150+ short interviews with active members of our community. What’s everyone up to? Find out in a snap!
CULTURE CONSUMED
Alisa: Star Trek Beyond, Olympics
Alex: Deadpool and Batman v Superman; Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day, Seanan McGuire (out next January from Tor.com); Strange Matings, ed Rebecca J Holden and Nisi Shawl; The Godless, Ben Peek
Tansy: Shadowhunters (Netflix), Masks & Shadows by Stephanie Burgis; Damaged Goods by Russell T Davies adapted by Big Finish Audio
Independent Olympians at the Olympics
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Galactic Suburbia: Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters (2016) Spoilerific!
Was it better than the original? Did we love it or hate it? Was it appropriate for a 6 year old? If you want the new Ghostbusters movie thoroughly Spoiled, who you gonna call?
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Some links to other think pieces/reviews:
Ghostbusters is Still Haunted by Negative Racial Tropes (Polygon)
The Clothes of Ghostbusters (Women Write About Comics)
Ghostbusters 1984 vs Ghostbusters 2006 (Book Smugglers)
Not discussed but interesting: the clothes of Ghostbustersthe clothes of Ghostbustersthe clothes of Ghostbusters
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Galactic Suburbia!
In which Letters To Tiptree is still turning heads, and it’s winter in Australia. Much winter. So coldness. You can get us from iTunes or at Galactic Suburbia.
WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET?
World Fantasy Award finalists
Locus Awards winners
CULTURE CONSUMED
Alisa: Undisclosed – Vacated; 4 hideous romcoms (Remember Sunday, Thanks for Sharing, Life Happens and Something Borrowed)
Alex: Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones; Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress; Fifth Season, NK Jemisin; The Hollow Crown
Tansy: Person of Interest Season 5, Book Smugglers Quarterly Almanac (especially John Chu’s “How to Piss off a Failed Super-Soldier”), Batman v Superman; Hamilton, Rocket Talk podcast – Amal El-Mohtar on Does Hamilton Count as Genre.
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Galactic Suburbia spoilerific
Alisa came to visit me a few weeks ago. We found a French science fiction mini series on SBS On Demand and we watched the entire thing, and then we had to record a special episode of Galactic Suburbia to try and hash out what exactly it was that we had just watched. You can listen to it over at Galactic Suburbia or on iTunes.
Warning: it’s entirely spoiler-filled… although I think you could still enjoy the show even after listening to us. But there’s not a screaming hurry, as it’s on the SBS site until the middle of 2017!
Randomly Yours, Alex 