Galactic Suburbia

In which we welcome a new member of the Galactic Suburbia: Next Gen, and embrace the awards season. Baby News: Happy birth to future feminist awesome little dude Samuel, and congrats to his parents, Alisa & Chris as well as newly minted big sister Mack! Nebula ballot. Aurealis shortlist Ditmars shortlist Norma! Shortlist. Mark Oshiro, ConQuest & the whiteness of cons/fan spaces Mark Does Stuff Etc. Mark's original post Mark's follow up Stephanie Lai at No Award on Taking Up Room in Con Spaces (also Ben and Han Solo at home) CULTURE CONSUMED Alex: Finished Molly. Triton, Samuel Delany; Wicked + Divine; Illuminae, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. Tansy: Molly also, Gentleman Jole & the Red Queen by Lois McMaster Bujold, Marvel Avengers Academy, Gilmore Girls, Buffy Rewatch with Daughter!!! Skype number: 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) 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 Alex and Tansy leap back into 2016 to talk Awards (it's that season again!), comics, novellas, mysterious London novels and epic feminist canon. Also, Molly Meldrum. Locus Recommended Reading List. BSFA Awards shortlist Letters to Tiptree 99 cents! Bestseller on Amazon! Tansy’s new podcast plug! Sheep Might Fly & Fake Geek Girl Kickstarter for Ursula Le Guin documentary. Nominating for Hugos (til end of March) don't forget. And Part 1 of the University of Oregon’s Tiptree Symposium, with Julie Phillips - (Alex says: sorry not sorry, Tansy) CULTURE CONSUMED: Tansy: Hellcat by Kate Leth & Brittney Williams, Archie by Mark Waid & Fiona Staples, The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar, The Beatriceid by Kate Elliott, “Binti” by Nnedi Okorafor, “The Heart is Eaten Last” by Kameron Hurley (note: Kameron says any new Patreon subscriber automatically gets access to all the stories she has posted so far including this one - bargain at as little as $1 a month!) Alex: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susannah Clarke; Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman (plus others of course). The Just City, Jo Walton; Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnas. MOLLY. Skype number: 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) 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 Alex and Tansy leap back into 2016 to talk Awards (it's that season again!), comics, novellas, mysterious London novels and epic feminist canon. Also, Molly Meldrum. Locus Recommended Reading List. BSFA Awards shortlist Letters to Tiptree 99 cents! Bestseller on Amazon! Tansy’s new podcast plug! Sheep Might Fly & Fake Geek Girl Kickstarter for Ursula Le Guin documentary. Nominating for Hugos (til end of March) don't forget. And Part 1 of the University of Oregon’s Tiptree Symposium, with Julie Phillips - (Alex says: sorry not sorry, Tansy) CULTURE CONSUMED: Tansy: Hellcat by Kate Leth & Brittney Williams, Archie by Mark Waid & Fiona Staples, The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar, The Beatriceid by Kate Elliott, “Binti” by Nnedi Okorafor, “The Heart is Eaten Last” by Kameron Hurley (note: Kameron says any new Patreon subscriber automatically gets access to all the stories she has posted so far including this one - bargain at as little as $1 a month!) Alex: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susannah Clarke; Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman (plus others of course). The Just City, Jo Walton; Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnas. MOLLY. Skype number: 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) 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!

Star Wars: the Force Awakens Spoilerific  We went, we watched, and now we're going to flail our hands about it, shortly before going to buy all the Rey toys that aren't out there.  Relevant Links: The Bechdel-Wallace Test - is this film feminist? What To Do When You're Not the Hero Any More John Boyega being super excited about being in Star Wars Lupita Nyong'o on not being seen as herself in Star Wars Emo Kylo Ren #WheresRey Skype number: 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) 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!

Star Wars: the Force Awakens Spoilerific  We went, we watched, and now we're going to flail our hands about it, shortly before going to buy all the Rey toys that aren't out there. Relevant Links: The Bechdel-Wallace Test - is this film feminist? What To Do When You're Not the Hero Any More John Boyega being super excited about being in Star Wars Lupita Nyong'o on not being seen as herself in Star Wars Emo Kylo Ren #WheresRey Skype number: 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) 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!

Happy new year from... Alex in Melbourne Alisa in Perth Tansy in Hobart Thanks to our awesome Patreon supporters, we’re bringing you this very exciting milestone reward episode. We virtually gathered a bunch of excellent Australian guests and asked them about their year in producing and consuming and what they’re looking forward to for 2016. We hope you enjoy listening to them…

Happy new year from... Alex in Melbourne Alisa in Perth Tansy in Hobart Thanks to our awesome Patreon supporters, we’re bringing you this very exciting milestone reward episode. We virtually gathered a bunch of excellent Australian guests and asked them about their year in producing and consuming and what they’re looking forward to for 2016. We hope you enjoy listening to them…

In which we throw our remit out the window to talk about a year's worth of non-SFF! What’s New on the Internet This year, the Tiptree Motherboard established the Tiptree Fellowship Program to seek out and support creators who are striving to complete new works and make their voices heard. By adding Fellows each year, this program will create a network of creators who can build connections, support each other, and find opportunities for collaboration. First Tiptree Fellows: Walidah Imarisha and Elizabeth LaPensée. You can donate to encourage these and other new creators - donate through PayPal — or you can mail a check to 680 66th Street, Oakland, CA 94609. Kate Elliott on Fangirl Happy Hour What Non-SFFH Culture Have we Consumed over the YEAR? TV: Alisa: The West Wing rewatch, Transparent S1 and 2, Billy and Billie S1, The Good Wife Tansy: Leverage, Glee, Grace & Frankie, Please Like Me Season 3, Master of None Alex: Spooks rewatch; Veronica Mars Movies: Alisa: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (non-spoilery discussion mostly of seating, context and spoiler-avoiding) Tansy: Musketeers! Footloose, A League of Their Own Alex: Suffragette; Sound City Podcasts: Alisa: Self publishing webinars (Mark Dawson, Nick Stephenson); Undisclosed, The SweetGeorgia Show Tansy: The Tuesday Club Alex: Radio Lab; new ones: Gastropod and Chat 10, Looks 3; Waleed Aly on Osher Günsberg Podcast Comics: Tansy: Check, Please; Dumbing of Age Books: Tansy: A Few Right-Thinking Men, Sulari Gentill; The Suffragette Scandal, Courtney Milan; Castles Ever After: When A Scot Ties the Knot, by Tessa Dare Alex: Andy Goldsworthy, Enclosure; Roger Crowley, Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire; Jan Morris, The World: Life and Travel 1950-2000 Skype number: 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) 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 throw our remit out the window to talk about a year's worth of non-SFF! What’s New on the Internet This year, the Tiptree Motherboard established the Tiptree Fellowship Program to seek out and support creators who are striving to complete new works and make their voices heard. By adding Fellows each year, this program will create a network of creators who can build connections, support each other, and find opportunities for collaboration. First Tiptree Fellows: Walidah Imarisha and Elizabeth LaPensée. You can donate to encourage these and other new creators - donate through PayPal — or you can mail a check to 680 66th Street, Oakland, CA 94609. Kate Elliott on Fangirl Happy Hour What Non-SFFH Culture Have we Consumed over the YEAR? TV: Alisa: The West Wing rewatch, Transparent S1 and 2, Billy and Billie S1, The Good Wife Tansy: Leverage, Glee, Grace & Frankie, Please Like Me Season 3, Master of None Alex: Spooks rewatch; Veronica Mars Movies: Alisa: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (non-spoilery discussion mostly of seating, context and spoiler-avoiding) Tansy: Musketeers! Footloose, A League of Their Own Alex: Suffragette; Sound City Podcasts: Alisa: Self publishing webinars (Mark Dawson, Nick Stephenson); Undisclosed, The SweetGeorgia Show Tansy: The Tuesday Club Alex: Radio Lab; new ones: Gastropod and Chat 10, Looks 3; Waleed Aly on Osher Günsberg Podcast Comics: Tansy: Check, Please; Dumbing of Age Books: Tansy: A Few Right-Thinking Men, Sulari Gentill; The Suffragette Scandal, Courtney Milan; Castles Ever After: When A Scot Ties the Knot, by Tessa Dare Alex: Andy Goldsworthy, Enclosure; Roger Crowley, Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire; Jan Morris, The World: Life and Travel 1950-2000 Skype number: 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) 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 has feelings about Lovecraft’s image being associated with (and from next year, removed from) the World Fantasy Award. WHAT'S NEW ON THE INTERNET World Fantasy Awards announced CULTURE CONSUMED ALEX: Alex: re-reading the James AS Corey series, The Expanse, books 1-3, so I could read the fourth one, Cibola Burn; Eff Yeah Film and Feminism podcast; Manners and Mutiny, Gail Carriger. ALISA: PhD research and experiments. TANSY: Tremontaine Parts 1-3 by Ellen Kushner & others, The Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, I, Zombie, Supergirl, Jessica Jones Skype number: 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) 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 has feelings about Lovecraft’s image being associated with (and from next year, removed from) the World Fantasy Award. WHAT'S NEW ON THE INTERNET World Fantasy Awards announced CULTURE CONSUMED ALEX: Alex: re-reading the James AS Corey series, The Expanse, books 1-3, so I could read the fourth one, Cibola Burn; Eff Yeah Film and Feminism podcast; Manners and Mutiny, Gail Carriger. ALISA: PhD research and experiments. TANSY: Tremontaine Parts 1-3 by Ellen Kushner & others, The Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, I, Zombie, Supergirl, Jessica Jones Skype number: 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) 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 talk tragic potatoes, Lord of the Rings jokes, deep space parkour and the retirement plans of Sean Bean, among other topics that become inevitable as we delve into the recent Ridley Scott directed, Matt Damon + Science = OTP movie, The Martian, based on the novel by Andy Weir. You can Skype us to leave a short message about any of our topics or episodes, to be included in a future show. 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) Otherwise, 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 talk tragic potatoes, Lord of the Rings jokes, deep space parkour and the retirement plans of Sean Bean, among other topics that become inevitable as we delve into the recent Ridley Scott directed, Matt Damon + Science = OTP movie, The Martian, based on the novel by Andy Weir. You can Skype us to leave a short message about any of our topics or episodes, to be included in a future show. 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) Otherwise, 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!

Thanks so much for all your emails, tweets and voicemails! What Culture Have we Consumed? Tansy: Andre Norton Sargasso of Space; I am Princess X, Cherie Priest; The Wicked & The Divine, by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie; Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. Alex: Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie; Newt’s Emerald, Garth Nix; Zeroes, Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, Deb Biancotti. You can Skype us to leave a short message about any of our topics or episodes, to be included in a future show. 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) Otherwise, 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!

Thanks so much for all your emails, tweets and voicemails! What Culture Have we Consumed? Tansy: Andre Norton Sargasso of Space; I am Princess X, Cherie Priest; The Wicked & The Divine, by Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie; Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. Alex: Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie; Newt’s Emerald, Garth Nix; Zeroes, Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, Deb Biancotti. You can Skype us to leave a short message about any of our topics or episodes, to be included in a future show. 03 90164171 (within Australia) +613 90164171 (from overseas) Otherwise, 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!