Summary: In which we greet a brand new year with discussion about digital media, awards, books, feminism, feedback, more books, anti-heroes, gender roles and take a look at what to look forward to in 2011. News Follow up on the Jewish fantasy discussion by Rachel Swirsky: http://blog.42scifi-fantasy.com/2010/12/chanukah-day-7-guest-post-by-rachel.html Locus to go digital with issue #600 http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/Digital.html Launch of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, new critical zine with focus on women’s work http://www.thecsz.com/ The i09 Power List: 20 people who rocked SF & Fantasy in 2010 http://io9.com/5719944/ Carl Brandon Awards: Hiromi Goto and Justine Larbalestier http://www.carlbrandon.org/awards.html Hugo nominations open - last year’s members of Aussiecon 4, don’t forget you’re eligible to nominate! http://www.renovationsf.org/hugo-intro.php Feedback: Kaia, Kathryn & Thoraiya What Culture Have we Consumed? [AND what culture are you most looking forward to consuming in 2011?] Alisa: Fringe Season 3, Dexter Season 4, Being Erica (ep 1), Nurse Jackie, How I Met Your Mother, reading Managing Death Looking forward to: LSS 2011 Alex: Zombies vs Unicorns, ed. Larbalestier and Black; Factotum, book 3 of Monster Blood Tattoo, by DM Cornish; Dervish House, Ian McDonald; The Killing Thing, Kate Wilhelm; Surface Detail, Iain M Banks. Looking forward to: Blue Remembered Earth (probably), by Alastair Reynolds; books 2&3 of The Creature Court, Tansy Rayner Roberts; the 2011 Women in SF Book Club; Bold as Love sequence (Gwyneth Jones); Twelve Planets (from Twelfth Planet Press). Tansy: Wiped, Richard Molesworth; The Doctor Who Christmas Special! The Gene Thieves & the Norma, Ascendant, Diana Peterfreund, Big Finish Podcast Looking forward to: Doctor Who and Fringe (SHOCK, I know), Sherlock, Torchwood, The Demon’s Surrender by Sarah Rees Brennan, Burn Bright by M. de Pierres. 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
