Galactic Suburbia

In which Alisa recovers from the brainsplosion that is World Fantasy Convention, Alex finally reads THAT Margo Lanagan story, and Tansy travels in three kinds of time.

News

The WFC Report

Stop Reviewing Movies with Strong Female Leads! at the Mary Sue at Jezebel at Bitch

Fake Geek Girls Unite: Mary Sue Coverage 1 2 3 The New Statesman Peter M Ball Pledges His Allegiance to the Fake Geek Army

What Culture Have we Consumed?

Alisa: Dexter S6 and S7; Episodes 2; In Treatment S1; The Shield S1; Remember Why You Fear Me, Robert Shearman; Hair Side, Flesh Side, Helen Marshall

Alex: Singing my Sister Down, Margo Lanagan; some Kij Johnson, from At the Mouth of the River of Bees; One Little Room, KJ Parker; Holmes Sherlock, Eleanor Arnason

Tansy: The Diviners, Libba Bray; All New X-Men #1; Chicks Unravel Time edited by Deborah Stanish & LM Myles.

Don't forget to send us nominations for the GS Award: for activism and/or communication that advances the feminist conversation in the field of speculative fiction in 2012.

Check out our sibling podcast, Galactic Chat - in the latest episode, Sean interviews Joe Abercrombie.

We are running away for summer! Back at the start of February!

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In which a new listener is born, Canada gets a Stella too, and we review a bunch of great stuff including Black Widow, Infidel, Swordspoint and Big Finish's special releases.

News

Baby Announcement: Daniel Wessely is born!

WFA winners announced

Genrecon! Tansy talks Genrecon on the Voyager blog And again on her own blog Jason Nahrung on what he got out of Genrecon

Neil Gaiman’s new Doctor Who episode will feature the Cybermen, Warwick Davis & Tamzin Outhwaite. Boing Boing io9

Canada is getting a Stella too - theirs is the Rosalind!

Women in Horror article

Galactic Chat - Rowena Cory Daniells

What Culture Have we Consumed?

Alex: Infidel, Kameron Hurley; The Deep (BBC series) (http://randomalex.net/2012/11/06/the-deep-a-bbc-submarine-series/); Black Widow, Marjorie Liu; and books on women’s suffrage... (I might have lied about the free ebooks! Sad)

Tansy: Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth, Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner; Big Finish Specials: UNIT Dominion, Love and War by Jacqueline Rayner & Paul Cornell; Voyage to Venus; Dorian Gray

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