Episode 102: 11 June 2014




Galactic Suburbia show

Summary: 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!