Galactic Suburbia

Alex and Tansy pull apart the recent school-set Doctor Who spin off TV show Class, with its YA tropes, teen diversity, squicky alien creatures and fascinating parent-kid dynamics. But mostly we rave about the awesomeness of Quill. Because she is the best. 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!

Alex and Tansy pull apart the recent school-set Doctor Who spin off TV show Class, with its YA tropes, teen diversity, squicky alien creatures and fascinating parent-kid dynamics. But mostly we rave about the awesomeness of Quill. Because she is the best. 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!

Happy New Year edition! One last episode before we squeak into 2017. In which we sum up a year of culture consumed and other interests, and mourn the recently departed. WHAT'S NEW ON THE INTERNET? Carrie Fisher George Michael Richard Adams Vera Rubin (note: we recorded this ep before the death of Debbie Reynolds was reported) CULTURE CONSUMED IN 2016: Tansy: Rogue One Alisa: Operation Apocalypse Plan (books mentioned: Will McIntosh’s Soft Apocalypse as a guide to the probable future, Defying Doomsday) Alex: The Arrival Tansy: Hurricane Heels by Isabel Yap (& Buffy rewatch with daughter, because this is what 11 yr olds are for) Alisa: PhD & Jamberry Alex: The Expanse Tansy: Check Please fandom & Yuri on Ice Alisa: Paleo Cinema Podcast Alex: Octavia Butler Link to call for Letters to Butler Tansy -- 2016 culture round ups in Smugglivus & Ambling Down the Aqueduct   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!

Happy New Year edition! One last episode before we squeak into 2017. In which we sum up a year of culture consumed and other interests, and mourn the recently departed. WHAT'S NEW ON THE INTERNET? Carrie Fisher George Michael Richard Adams Vera Rubin (note: we recorded this ep before the death of Debbie Reynolds was reported) CULTURE CONSUMED IN 2016: Tansy: Rogue One Alisa: Operation Apocalypse Plan (books mentioned: Will McIntosh’s Soft Apocalypse as a guide to the probable future, Defying Doomsday) Alex: The Arrival Tansy: Hurricane Heels by Isabel Yap (& Buffy rewatch with daughter, because this is what 11 yr olds are for) Alisa: PhD & Jamberry Alex: The Expanse Tansy: Check Please fandom & Yuri on Ice Alisa: Paleo Cinema Podcast Alex: Octavia Butler Link to call for Letters to Butler Tansy -- 2016 culture round ups in Smugglivus & Ambling Down the Aqueduct   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 parasites are creepy, pregnancy is body horror, and consent is important! Get comfy and listen to Alex & Tansy's discussion of Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" and her essay "Positive Obsessions," both available in the Bloodchild & Other Stories collection (plus Bloodchild is available as a single story digitally). Don’t forget: submissions for the Octavia Butler tribute anthology are due on Jan 8! See Submissions for details. 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 parasites are creepy, pregnancy is body horror, and consent is important! Get comfy and listen to Alex & Tansy's discussion of Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" and her essay "Positive Obsessions," both available in the Bloodchild & Other Stories collection (plus Bloodchild is available as a single story digitally). Don’t forget: submissions for the Octavia Butler tribute anthology are due on Jan 8! See Submissions for details. 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 Tansy and Alex share a culturepalooza -- witches, spies, hockey romance and magical secret agents! New on the internet? @GailSimone asking for recommendations of books/comics by POC, LBGTQ or other marginalised creative teams. CULTURE CONSUMED: Alex: The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett; Tansy: Her Every Wish, Courtney Milan; Alex: The Song From Somewhere Else, AF Harrold; Tansy: Mockingbird; Alex: Long Hidden anthology, Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older; Tansy: Sarina Bowen The Ivy Years: The Year We Fell Down, The Year We Hid Away, The Understatement of the Year; Alex: Agents of Dreamland, Caitlin R Kiernan; Tansy: The Hamilton Mixtape; Alex: Imprudence, Gail Carriger; Tansy: The Miraculous Ladybug   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 Tansy and Alex share a culturepalooza -- witches, spies, hockey romance and magical secret agents! New on the internet? @GailSimone asking for recommendations of books/comics by POC, LBGTQ or other marginalised creative teams. CULTURE CONSUMED: Alex: The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett; Tansy: Her Every Wish, Courtney Milan; Alex: The Song From Somewhere Else, AF Harrold; Tansy: Mockingbird; Alex: Long Hidden anthology, Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older; Tansy: Sarina Bowen The Ivy Years: The Year We Fell Down, The Year We Hid Away, The Understatement of the Year; Alex: Agents of Dreamland, Caitlin R Kiernan; Tansy: The Hamilton Mixtape; Alex: Imprudence, Gail Carriger; Tansy: The Miraculous Ladybug   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 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! (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 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 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! (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 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 Wonder Woman and Hillary Clinton both come under fire for being in public while female... 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 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 Wonder Woman and Hillary Clinton both come under fire for being in public while female... 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 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 letters are written to Octavia Butler. 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: so much culture. In particular: just finished 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. 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 letters are written to Octavia Butler. 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: so much culture. In particular: just finished 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. 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 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. 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) 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!