Galactic Suburbia

Our special 2014 Galactic Suburbia Award episode! Listen to find out our winner and shortlist for our award to honour activism and/or communication that advances the feminist conversation in the field of speculative fiction. CULTURE CONSUMED: Alisa: Haven S5, Tempest's Reading Challenge Alex: Tehanu, Tales of Earthsea, and The Other Wind, Ursula le Guin; Jupiter Ascending; Waistcoats and Weaponry, Gail Carriger. Tansy: D’Artanyan i tri Mushketyora (1979); New Avengers: Breakout prose novel by Alisa Kwitney; New Avengers: Breakout, by Brian Michael Bendis; Curb Stomp #1 - Ryan Ferrier (writer), Devaki Neogi (artist); Princess Leia #1 - Mark Waid (writer) Terry & Rachel Dodson (artists). NEXT TIME: tune in for our Ursula Le Guin essay spoilerific. We will be covering: "The Space Crone” & “Is Gender Necessary? (Redux)” (both in Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, and Places) and “Science Fiction and Mrs Brown”(in The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction). Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

Our special 2014 Galactic Suburbia Award episode! Listen to find out our winner and shortlist for our award to honour activism and/or communication that advances the feminist conversation in the field of speculative fiction. CULTURE CONSUMED: Alisa: Haven S5, Tempest's Reading Challenge Alex: Tehanu, Tales of Earthsea, and The Other Wind, Ursula le Guin; Jupiter Ascending; Waistcoats and Weaponry, Gail Carriger. Tansy: D’Artanyan i tri Mushketyora (1979); New Avengers: Breakout prose novel by Alisa Kwitney; New Avengers: Breakout, by Brian Michael Bendis; Curb Stomp #1 - Ryan Ferrier (writer), Devaki Neogi (artist); Princess Leia #1 - Mark Waid (writer) Terry & Rachel Dodson (artists). NEXT TIME: tune in for our Ursula Le Guin essay spoilerific. We will be covering: "The Space Crone” & “Is Gender Necessary? (Redux)” (both in Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, and Places) and “Science Fiction and Mrs Brown”(in The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction). Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

Welcome to the 6th year of Galactic Suburbia It’s our birthday! CAAAAKE Nebulas: http://www.sfwa.org/2015/02/2014-nebula-awards-nominees-announced/ Aurealis Awards: http://aurealisawards.org/2015/02/27/announcement-2014-aurealis-awards-shortlist/ What Culture Have we Consumed? Alisa: Cherry Crow Children by Deborah Kalin, Perth Writers Festival - Elizabeth Gilbert Alex: up to date with Saga (in trade); The Chimes, Anna Smaill; A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Ursula le Guin; Etiquette and Espionage, and Curtsies and Conspiracies, Gail Carriger. Tansy: Spider-Gwen #1, Companion Piece, Fangirl Happy Hour #4 (Renay’s rant on female characters & agency) Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/galacticsuburbia) and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

In which the Champagne and Socks podcast casts on, Cranky Ladies is about to be launched, and it's that time of year again, DITMAR CENTRAL. Ditmar awards ballot is out And theSir Julius Vogel too Champagne and Socks Cranky Ladies launch March 8 What Culture Have we Consumed? Alisa: Years Bests for Database, PhD Research, Helen Merrick Alex: Of Mice and Men (National Theatre Live) - because I want an SF version; The Greatship, Robert Reed; Veronica Mars (season 1); Osiris, EJ Swift Tansy: Daughters of the Storm by Kim Wilkins LOOK A REAL BOOK, Reign (Season 1), Agent Carter again.Operation: S.I.N. Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

In which we're back, baby, all cultured up from our summer holiday to tell you what's good in books, shows, comics & more. Thank our Patreons for the Alisa's headphones which have greatly improved our sound quality! Alisa is about to go to print on the Year's Best YA. Over the summer, as well as appearing on Galactic Suburbia's sister-wife podcast Verity!, Tansy also guested on the Two Minute Time Lord talking about the Doctor Who Christmas special. Yes, Chip's episodes are totally 2 minutes or less most of the time, but of course Tansy talked for longer than that, don't be ridiculous! Tansy also wrote an article on Sex & Science Fiction over at Uncanny Magazine. Alex has an exciting new announcement too, but you'll have to listen to find out what it is. (cough, Tor.com, cough) The Locus Recommended Reading List is out now, and features lots of Aussies. What Culture Have we Consumed? Alisa: Warehouse 13 Season 1; Twinmakers by Sean Williams; Crash by Sean Williams; ODY-C #1 (Image); Federal Bureau of Physics Vol 1: The Paradigm Shift (Vertigo); Sex Criminals Vol 1 and Sex Criminals Issue 6 and 7; Julie Dillon's Imagined Realms Book 1;Once Upon a Time Season 1 and 2; Serial Tansy: The Fangirl Happy Hour podcast, Issue 1 reviews: Bitch Planet, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, SHIELD, Hawkeye, Black Canary & Zatanna: Bloodspell, by Paul Dini; Agent Carter, Kameron Hurley on not quitting her dayjob. Alex: Three Temeraire books, Naomi Novik; Haven season 4; The Female Factory, Lisa Hannett and Angela Slatter; Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch; A Face Like Glass, Frances Hardinge; Clariel, Garth Nix; Tam Lin, Pamela Dean. Abandoned: Orphans of Chaos and Hidden Empire; ZEROES - New superhero YA book deal from Scott Westerfeld, Deborah Biancotti & Margo Lanagan - words do not describe how excited Galactic Suburbia is about this one!!! Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

In which we help you with your (possibly last minute) Christmas shopping with a ton of our favourite recommendations from the year, plus culture consumed. Don't forget to send us your recommendations for the GS Award: for activism and/or communication that advances the feminist conversation in the field of speculative fiction Christmas gift suggestions!!    Alisa: Soapasaurus; Ancient Arts Yarn    Alex: Orphan Black. Abhorsen trilogy (plus prequel), Garth Nix. Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Angela Slatter. Hav, Jan Morris. Rupetta, Nike Sulway.   Tansy: Ms Marvel Vol 1: No Normal, G.Willow Wilson; Teen Titans Go; Dimetrodon, The Doubleclicks; The Musketeers (BBC 2014); Sex Criminals, Matt Fraction  TPP: Drowned Vanilla! Secret Lives of Books; The Female Factory, Kaleidoscope, The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories; Perfections;    Other Personal Stuff to PluG: The GS Scrapbook, The Twelfth Planet Press Tab, Musketeer Space    What Culture Have we Consumed?    Alisa: Scrivener; Monstrous Affections edited by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant; Champagne and Socks (Alisa’s personal blog)    Alex: The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Patrick Rothfuss; Troll: A Love Story, Joanne Sinisalo; Uncanny #1; finished Project Bond.    Tansy: Young Avengers 2: Family Matters; Civil War: Young Avengers/Runaways; Young Avengers Presents, The West Wing, Chicks Dig Gaming, Jennifer Brozek & Robert Smith?   Have a great summer... even if it's winter where you live.   Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

In which we try to fix the world and don't even fix ourselves, but progress is being made (we hope)  On the World Fantasy Awards A couple of links to the big recent internet discussion we didn't want to try to explain via podcast: Laura J Mixon Tessa of Silence Without  What we talk about instead: general issues arising from recent controversies & discussions Industry bullying & threatening - why people who threaten to blacklist you probably can't.  On Being Complicit On Back Channels & the Broken Step Do We Do Enough & What Else Can Be Done?    What Culture Have we Consumed?  Tansy: Sleepy Hollow #1 (Noelle Stevenson), Gotham Academy #1, Batgirl 35, Young Avengers: Sidekicks  Alex: Interstellar; Haven season 3; the Great Rosetta and Philae saga.  Alisa: We're not even going to tell you, you have to listen. But it is pretty out there.  Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon (http://www.patreon.com/galacticsuburbia) and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

In which Alex and Tansy debrief Alisa on their ContinuumX hijinks, and a crowdfunding scheme unfolds... please admire our lovely new logo thanks to longtime listener Terri and her ninja cupcake skills   News Ditmars, Norma, etc etc. Con report! Book launches, panels…  Literary Guests of Honour: Ambelin Kwaymullina Jim C Hines (speeches not available online yet, will link when we can)  Check out also the great Continuum X Twitter Storify As mentioned by Ambelin in her GOH speech, the Australia Council guidelines on writing about Indigenous culture and people, which were formulated by Indigenous people.   What Culture Have we Consumed?   Alisa: The Gods of Wheat Street; Vaginal Fantasy (The Lions of Al-Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay);   Alex: Kitty and Cadaver, Narrelle M Harris; Vanity and Valour, Mary Robinette Kowal; Vox Day and Ted Chiang; Edge of Tomorrow (and X Men: Days of Future Past)   Tansy: Lightspeed Magazine Women Destroy Science Fiction, Seanan Maguire "Each to Each."  And our cake logo winners! It’s Terri! Because we never knew how much we needed to be a cupcake until we became one. We hope we were delicious.  New way to support Galactic Suburbia via our Patreon page - help us cover our running costs, if we hit $50 per podcast we will commit to regular Spoilerific Club podcasts, plus other incentives.  You may also be interested in these other Patreon campaigns: Tansy's Musketeer Space project. Terry Frost's Paleo-Cinema Podcast page, also inspired by the crowdfunding panel at ContinuumX!  Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

In which we emerge from our cake coma to discuss awards, speeches, hashtags and online activism. And, okay, more cake. News Norman Hetherington’s birthday celebrated by Google: Australians love Mr Squiggle!  Nebula award winners announced. N K Jemisin’s GoH speech and Hiromi Goto's GoH speech at Wiscon Alisa's post: If You Aren't Part of the Solution  Discussion of #yesallwomen and #notallmen Charles Tan’s important essay on Bigotry, Cognotive Dissonance and Submission guidelines  What Culture Have we Consumed?  Alisa: Total Devotion Machine, Rosaleen Love; Perfections, Kirstyn McDermott; The Lady Astronaut from Mars, Mary Robinette Kowal  Alex: A Pursuit of Miracles, George Turner; Black Ice, Lucy Sussex; Jane Bites Back, Michael Thomas Ford. Project Bond.  Tansy: X-Men Days of Future Past, Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction, Robotech Rewatch Galactic Suburbia Scrapbook - is still a preorder which means if you go ahead and preorder, we’ll send you a copy of the book when it drops, glitch with the Paypal means it charges you 1c on preorder but Alisa refunding those. And also, all sales for the Scrapbook will go towards running costs for GS. PS we have a donation button on the Podbean site, which we thought we would mention because we got scolded by email... if you want to throw us a donation towards our hosting fees, we will be very grateful!  Check out our Pinterest board for the entries in our cake logo contest! We haven't been able to choose, so we're asking for feedback from our listeners. Vote for your favourite by emailing us - and remember it's not about how much you like the look of the cake itself, but which picture you think makes the best logo to represent us for our next 100 episodes.  Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

Alisa, Alex and Tansy invite all our listeners to join us as we celebrate our 100th episode of Galactic Suburbia in time-honoured tradition, with cake! Alisa is eating Golden Gaytime cheesecake. Tansy is eating orange sour cream cake. Alex combined them both to create chocolate orange cheesecake! Let us know what kind of cake you ate while listening to the podcast! If you'd like to enter our cake logo contest, please send a picture of your Galactic Suburbia themed cake to us by email or Twitter by the 27th May!  NEWS The Norma Shortlist includes some Twelfth Planet Press books! Alisa recently announced the Kaleidoscope TOC, and may be launching Rosaleen Love's book Secret Lives of Books at Continuum.  Hugo Packet - Orbit UK not including the novels.  Tansy news: upcoming Tor.com reread column web serial  The Galactic Suburbia scrapbook available soon for download. Listen to the episode for giveaway codes. Free books! Limited editions second print run for Love Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts. Let Alisa know now if you want one of these - she's printing them for London.What Culture Have we Consumed?   Alex: Hav, Jan Morris; Graceling, Kristin Cashore; so much Fringe. And Orphan Black. No more Comixology for me.   Tansy: Captain America: Winter Soldier; Gravity; Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell, Saga 3   Alisa: OMG I AM IN EDITING/PROOFING ARMAGEDDON - Kaleidoscope almost ready to drop and Secret Lives of Books! And …. Tea and Jeopardy Galactic Suburbia highlights.  We love you all, thanks for listening to us!  Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

Alisa, Alex and Tansy bring you speculative fiction news, reading notes and chat from the galactic suburbs of Australia

Galactic Suburbia the John Campbell Memorial not a Hugo Episode In which we do discuss the Hugo shortlists both Retro and Current, but this is not an episode. Not at all. For... administrative reasons.   Retro Hugo Shortlist 1939.   Hugo Shortlist Brandon Sanderson says interesting things about fandom groups, and the Wheel of Time nomination.    Some gender notes on the Hugo shortlist  Tansy’s Hugo links post  Tansy & John DeNardo of SF Signal discuss the shortlist on Coode Street Podcast  THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO NOMINATED GALACTIC SUBURBIA FOR BEST FANCAST, WE LOVE YOU TOO. WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH WE WOULD GIVE YOU FIVE STARS ON ITUNES.

In which we approach Fringe from multiple sides, rant about Game of Thrones, muse about cake lit and Alisa is a PhD student again! Bonus supplemental awards chat (but not in depth about the Hugos because we recorded before the shortlist went public) and an invitation to CAKE OUT for our 100th. See you there...   Culture Consumed:   Alex: Fringe s1; A Million Suns, Beth Revis; The Crooked Letter, Sean Williams;  Tansy: Game of Thrones rant, Jenny Colgan novels, Jago Litefoot 7, Yonderland!  Alisa: Game of Thrones; Generation Cryo; The Cuckoo by Sean Williams, Clarkesworld Issue 91; the PhD Report Aurealis Awards were awarded. (sidetracked: Before the Internet from XKCD)  Hugo nomination   CAKE COMPETITION! For our 100th episode, we would like to have a new logo. On a cake. Designed by you. Send a picture of your creation and you could win… something… and you can eat the cake, too. (This is episode 98, so you’ve got 4 or 5 weeks to plan your creation.)  Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

Episode 97: Spoilerific Special - Veronica MarsIn which a long time ago, we used to be friends, but I haven't heard from you lately at all - come on now, sugah, bring it on, bring it on. Just remember me when It's the Kickstarted Veronica Mars Movie Squeeful Spoilerific Special!With Alex away stargazing, Alisa and Tansy dig into the nitty gritty of the recent release movie we had been waiting YEARS for. We talk about the history of the show (SPOILERS FOR ALL OF VERONICA MARS, NOT JUST THE MOVIE), the writing, the characters, the love stories, the murders, the stars and the in-jokes. We also talk about the Kickstarter campaign and its ramifications for a TV industry teetering on the brink of a total rebirth. Are you Team Logan, Team Piz, Team Mac or (most importantly of all) Team Veronica? Does a soundbyte of a certain Dandy Warhols song make you break into a smile? Were you so disheartened at the end of Season 3 that you watched all of Party Down to get over the sad? Come on down to Galactic Suburbia. People say we're a marshmallow. Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

In which we announce the 2013 Galactic Suburbia for activism and/or communication that advances the feminist conversation in the field of speculative fiction. [If you want to listen unspoilt to the episode discussing shortlist and winners of the GS Award, listen Noooooow without reading the rest of the show notes. Don't even glance at them! Move along, nothing to see here]Culture Consumed:Alex: Shadow Unit! Haven ep 1!Alisa: Fringe, Haven S1, Game of Thrones S1 and S2, Veronica Mars MovieTansy: The Lotus Palace by Jeannie Lin; Dark Eyes 2 (Big Finish); Veronica Mars Movie Shout out for Night Terrace. Cranky Ladies of History funded!Galactic Suburbia Award!! for activism and/or communication that advances the feminist conversation in the field of speculative fiction Malinda Lo's continuing statistics gathering on LGBT YA books Foz Meadows for her blogging generally, but particularly "Old Men Yelling at Clouds." Anita Sarkeesian - Tropes vs Women in Video Games (Damsel in Distress 1 2, Ms Male Character) Kameron Hurley, ‘We Have Always Fought’: Challenging the Women, Cattle and Slaves Narrative,” at A Dribble of Ink. The Doubleclicks - Nothing to Prove music video Cheryl Morgan - The Rise Fall of Grimpink Deb Stanish for her essay in Apex magazine: "Fangirl isn't a Dirty Word."Honorary shortlistee (the Julia Gillard Award): Wendy Davis for her amazing filibusterJoint Winners this Year!!! (drum roll please) NK Jemisin for her GoH speech from Continuum (link) Elise Matthesen for her essay "How to Report Sexual Harassment at cons" (link) Also discussed: “Not Now, Not Ever” (Gillard Misogyny Speech) by Australian VoicesPlease send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!