Summary: In which we pop the cork on the champagne bottle to welcome in the beginning of the 9 month science fiction awards season - hooray! News Responses to the Galactic Suburbia Award. Crawford nominees and winner: Genevieve Valentine's Mechanique. BSFA nominees SF Translation Awards Fundraiser - donate and win awesome books The Kitschies: yes really, rum and tentacles. LOCUS Recommended Reading List! [and Poll] Young Australian of the Year who founded Robogals: Marita Cheng Women of SF in their own words, reviewed by Brit Mandelo Diana Peterfreund: following up on Brave New Love [and how the internet often fails to pick up the pieces after a controversy has died down] Women Writing Horror (it’s new, who knew?) [and the other Guardian article patronising genre readers, taken apart by Smart Bitches Trashy Books] 10 Great SF books for "girls" Creature Court trilogy giveaway - we'll be drawing it next episode, email us to tell us about one book you read because of us you'll enter the draw to win all three books by Tansy Creature Court Spoilerific Blog Post - only for those who have read Creature Court Book Three, Reign of Beasts, by Tansy Rayner Roberts What Culture Have we Consumed? Alisa: Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby; The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson Alex: Clockwork Rocket, Greg Egan; A Fisherman of the Inland Sea, Ursula le Guin; The Business of Death, Trent Jamieson; Skyrim Tansy: Bad Power by Deborah Biancotti; Batgirl: the Lesson; Redwood Wildfire by Andrea Hairston; Blake’s 7: The Turing Test [Big Finish], Doctor Who: Foe From the Future [Big Finish] 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
