Galactic Suburbia

In which we bid farewell to the queen of dragons, squee about 48 years of Doctor Who, dissect the negative associations with "girly" fandoms such as Twilight, and find some new favourites in our reading pile.

News

RIP Anne McCaffrey i09 obituary Charles Tan rounds up a bunch of tributes

48th anniversary of Doctor Who! Tansy says it with pictures

Weirdfictionreview.com - a website devoted to The Weird and created by Luis Rodrigues. The project is the brainchild of editing-writing team Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

Critiquing the Bigotry of Twilight-haters, not the same thing as defending Twilight

Original article

Sarah Rees Brennan

Holly Black

Announcing the Galactic Suburbia Award - we don't know what it is yet either but we're figuring it out! Send emails/tweets to make suggestions. What Culture Have we Consumed?

Alex: The Steel Remains, Richard Morgan; Alastair Reynolds, Blue Remembered Earth; "The Glass Gear" in Valente's Omikuji Project; also watched Thor.

Tansy: Batman (1989); All Men of Genius, Lev A.C. Rosen; God's War, Kameron Hurley. Comics: Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman (abandoned); Batgirl the Greatest Stories Ever Told

Alisa: Once Upon a Time; The Courier's New Bicycle, by Kim Westwood

Note: the post we discuss which looks at the believability of the war in God's War by Kameron Hurley was in fact not written by Cheryl Morgan, but by Farah Mendlesohn. Which explains why I wasn't able to find it on Google last night. Thanks to Cheryl for correcting my confusion and my apologies to Farah.  (Tansy quietly headdesks to self)

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Howie needs a hat

In which we celebrate the World Fantasy Awards, take on the Kickstarter phenomenon and why people like to support authors/artists directly, Alex is betrayed by Isobelle Carmody, Alisa still can’t finish Tansy’s novel, and we indulge in a feedback frenzy.

News

World Fantasy Awards!

Realms of Fantasy sinks for the third time

Graham Joyce calls BFS Extraordinary General meeting December 9th -

Authors kickstarting their own projects: Matt Forbeck - 12 novels in 12 months. Laura Anne Gilman's novella CE Murphy's novella (mentions also of self publishing projects of Tracy & Laura Hickman, and Liz Williams) Catherynne Valente’s Omikuji project looking for subscribers in order to keep the project going. And Tobias Buckell talks about how just because you're self publishing doesn't mean you have to be a ... What Culture Have we Consumed?

Alisa: Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts, The Courier's New Bicycle by Kim Westwood

Alex: the Stone Key and The Sending, Isobelle Carmody; I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett; end of Life on Mars S2; This is Not a Game, Walter Jon Williams; Distress, Greg Egan

Tansy: Ally Condie, Matched; Lisa Goldstein, The Uncertain Places; Gail Simone, Secret Six: Six Degrees of Devastation; Geek Tragedy, Nev Fountain

Feedback: well overdue!

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In which Alex and Tansy wax lyrical about Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing (despite knowing next to nothing about it), welcome the new Apex overlord Lynne Thomas, celebrate the twin dawns of All Hallows Read and Nanowrimo, and embark upon an epic marathon of Culture Consumed.

News

Joss Whedon makes Much Ado About Nothing in secret at first we knew next to nothing then we knew something and every new bit of something brings squeeage!

Harry Potter DVDs to disappear from the shelves after Christmas (and Tansy's still not over the whole Disney revelation)

Lynne Thomas’ first issue of Apex comes out next week featuring an article by Tansy on The Australian Dark Weird. As the new editor, Lynne talks about what she wants from authors at Outer Alliance

The lack of (paid) women reviewers (in the lit scene) continues to dismay and fascinate us in equal measure.

All Hallows Read is upon us And if you're going to gift a scary book to someone, why not make it Australian?

Nanowrimo is imminent!

What Culture Have we Consumed?

Tansy: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes

Alex: Life on Mars S2

Tansy: Bumped by Megan McCafferty

Alex: Obernewtyn, The Farseekers, and Ashling, by Isobelle Carmody

Tansy: Debris by Jo Anderton

Alex: God’s War, Kameron Hurley

Tansy: Marvel’s Ultimate Universe: Ultimate Spiderman, Ultimate X-Men, The Ultimates

Alex: Shadow Unit

Tansy: Big Finish and Mary Shelley: Mary’s Story (for 99p) & The Silver Turk.

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In which we fight crime, rail against derailing and read a million books.

News

Our Sisters in Crime, Still Fighting and Why the Faux Oppressed Whinge

Ada Lovelace Day

Wonder Woman gets a father (yesthisisnews)

Alisa’s news: Thief of Lives by Lucy Sussex now available as e-book

Tansy’s news: publishing date for Reign of Beasts and the Creature Court Fashion Challenge Contest

What Culture Have we Consumed?

Alex: The Fall of Hyperion, Dan Simmons; Yarn, Jon Armstrong; Thief of Lives, Lucy Sussex; Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts; The Word for World is Forest, Ursula le Guin; Eyes like Stars, Lisa Mantchev

Tansy: The Courier’s New Bicycle, Kim Westwood; Thief of Lives, Lucy Sussex; Catwoman: Crooked Little Town, by Ed Brubaker; Fablecroft blog series On Indie Press wraps up; Sofanauts interviews Paul Cornell; Two Minute Timelord round-table about Season 6 Doctor Who

Alisa: Doctor Who. Shorts: The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book) - Nnedi Okorafor (Clarkesworld March); Younger Women - Karen Fowler (Subterranean Summer), Valley of the Girls - Kelly Link (Subterranean Summer)

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In which Alisa and Tansy look at crimes against superheroines in the DC Universe, the good and the bad of the companions' journeys in Doctor Who, and why we love Olivia Dunham and her gun. We also plug our own books (yes really!), Tansy is still reading comics, and Alisa confesses that e-books have broken her brain.

No, seriously, she's broken now.

News

The WSFA SP shortlist (Tehani wooo!)

Death of Sara Douglass

Catwoman & Starfire - this isn’t what empowerment looks like i09 on a seven-year-old who loves Starfire and her reaction to the new version of the character: "She doesn't do anything." A great webcomic response to the Starfire issue. Tansy blogged about it too!

DC Comics, Bunker & the Current State of LGBTQ Superheroes (Tansy would have commented on how Bunker is portrayed as a gay superhero in the Teen Titans but he wasn't in the first issue!)

What Culture Have we Consumed?

Alisa: Haven, Fringe S4, Doctor Who Season 4?, Ringer, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, A Taste of the Nightlife by Sarah Zettel and one of my new reading projects

Tansy: The Almighty Johnsons, New 52 (Batgirl, Batwoman, Wonder Woman, Superboy, Blue Beetle); Justice League Generation Lost (Part I), Power Girl: A New Beginning

Pet Subject: Indie and E-books Twelfth Planet Press Website Twelfth Planet Press E-Store Wizard's Tower Bookstore (yay Cheryl) Tansy is Rocking the Romanpunk on her blog this week in celebration of the e-release of Love and Romanpunk.

Feedback: Björn is embarking on a quest to read all women authors for a year - and he needs a catchy title to help this become an awesome internet meme. Can you help him? Send us your suggestions and we'll think of some prizes for the best ones.

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In which we discuss Orson Scott Card's Hamlet, the agent who said no way to gay YA, Tansy's Blake's 7 dolls, the superhero who fights with her hair, and Alisa works through her issues with Doctor Who.

COME ON IN, EPISODE 42 IS FINE

News

Subterranean Press address email complaints about Hamlet's Father by Orson Scott Card And Rain Taxi review that started it

The other big Internet Thing - agent says no gay in YA dystopia please & authors speak out

New podcast - Live and Sassy Twelfth Planet Press opening for novel submissions

What Culture Have we Consumed?

Alex: Retribution Falls, Chris Wooding; Blake's 7; Hyperion, Dan Simmons.

Tansy: Torchwood (non spoilery), Justice League comics (the new 52), The Business of Death by Trent Jamieson

Alisa: Podcasts: Locus Roundtable (Gail Carriger and Francesca Myman; Kathleen Goonan, Eileen Gunn and Gary K Wolfe); Eurocon 2011 Gender in SF&F Panel; The Outer Alliance Podcast Episode 11, Season 3 Doctor Who [Book calling for papers on the topic of race and Doctor Who]

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It's the trilogy that put dystopia into YA and not only kicked Harry Potter and Twilight off the bestseller charts, but also shot them between the eyes with a crossbow.  While they were stung by wasps.

Tansy and Alisa are spoiling the hell out of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.  Listener beware, the first rule about the Spoilerific Book Club is... WE SPOIL STUFF.

Please only listen to this podcast if you have read the books in question, plan never to read the books in question, or really truly don't mind spoilers.  Also, towards the end, we get pretty spoilery about Harry Potter too.  It's relevant!  Mostly.

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In which we hug the Hugos, plug the Stella, lament the loss of the Weird Tales team, and contemplate (briefly) our podcasterly mid-life crisis. Alex delves into the wonderful world of classic cyberpunk, and Tansy demands to know why on earth Alisa is still watching Doctor Who if she doesn’t actually like it?

News

Weird Tales Sold, Editorial Staff Kicked Out

Strange Horizons Fundraising Drive

The Stella: new Australian novel prize for women

Galactic Chat Kelley Armstrong Ben Peek

Tansy’s win

What Culture Have we Consumed? Alisa: Doctor Who Season 2, Outer Alliance Podcast Alex: Trouble and her Friends, Melissa Scott; Only Ever Always, Penni Russon; Synners, Pat Cadigan; Blake’s 7. Tansy: SF Squeecast #3, Panel2Panel, Among Others by Jo Walton, Alcestis by Katherine Beukner, Stormlord’s Exile by Glenda Larke, AM KINDLED WILL TRAVEL

Pet Subject: Hugoriffic! Were you there for the Hugo Twitter party? Or did you have to resort to sitting in the live audience? The stats The results Hugos commentary round up

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In which we defend Mary Sues everywhere, point at superheroes with their pants down, plan a Hugo Twitterparti and reveal which of the three of us is secretly a hardcore horror fan. But most importantly, Alex is watching Blake's 7 completely unspoiled and she loves Avon the best, hooray!

News

The Mary Sue Conversation: Zoe Marriott Sarah Rees Brennan Holly Black Elizabeth Bear "Sometimes a book is about a female character because there are female people in the world."

What if Male Superheroes posed like Wonder Woman? Gender Bent Justice League Bonus, superheroes without pants (except Wonder Woman):

Cat Valente steps down from Apex Magazine as fiction editor, Lynne M Thomas steps up.

Alex wants to be in Reno. Watch the Hugos! Join @GalacticSuburbs in whatever the right time zone is and Twitterparti the Hugos with us!

What Culture Have we Consumed? Alisa - The Hunger Games, Life on Mars UK, The Women's Hour Podcast, Doctor Who Tansy - Lords & Ladies, Terry Pratchett; Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Rob Shearman; Rob on the Big Finish Podcast, Xena & the mystical pregnancy Alex - Ship Breaker, Paolo Bacigalupi; Blake's 7; Across the Universe, Beth Revis.

Featured Feedback:

Grant Watson (as well as our producer) pointed out to Tansy that Jason Todd died in "A Death in the Family" and not "The Killing Joke." She is very sorry.

Kirstyn McDermott took us to task over our dismissive attitude to horror, and we decided to address her concerns and chew over our complicated relationship with the darker side of spec fic.

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In which none of your fearless podcasters are impregnated by mysterious aliens for the duration of a single episode, nor do any of us experience a rapidly accelerated pregnancy or give birth to an otherworldly demon/alien/vampire. Also: Batgirl, Bujold and a cranky feminist rant or two.

News

Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award - given to a living writer for the first time, Katherine MacLean. Mythopoeic Awards

World Fantasy, of course!

World SF Travel Fund raising money to send Charles A Tan to WFC The Mystical Pregnancy trope - torture porn? Reproductive terrorism, exploiting women for being female. Violent degradation of women's bodies for plot.

Vote For Top-100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Titles Swedish Writing Fairy crunches the numbers

Andromeda’s Offering Offspring Issue 1 - new fanzine to “open up new female voices in SF, raise the awareness of female SF writers and share ideas.” (you can find them on Facebook apparently)

Where are the women in the new DC Comics? newsy report proper interview with Batgirl crusader

SF Signal Episode 70 - 6 men talk about their favourite podcasts and illustrate what we mean by gender disparity in SF gatekeeping Alisa makes reference to recent Mind Meld

What Culture Have we Consumed?

Alisa - Passage by Connie Willis; Red Glove by Holly Black; The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang; Alex - Diplomatic Immunity and Cryoburn, Bujold; Chicks Dig Time Lords, ed. Lynne Thomas; The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell; Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal (http://wp.me/p11HLi-Nf); Songs of the Earth, Elspeth Cooper (abandoned). SF Squeecast. Tansy - Glenda Larke-Stormlord Rising; Malinda Lo-Huntress; Penni Russon-Only, Ever, Always

Feedback lovely review at Hoyden About Town

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In which we discuss the SF Gateway and some great additions to the Women in SF conversation, Alex eats all the Bujold in one bite, and Alisa’s puppy does his very best to oppress us.

News The Locus Awards Prometheus Award winners Sturgeon and Campbell Awards Shirley Jackson Awards

Recent announcement - Gollancz announces the SF Gateway, huge project to digitise & make available thousands of SF classics as ebooks.

Linda Nagata on ‘What’s in a Name’ and her career trajectory as a female writer of hard SF Chris Moriarty on labels in the women & SF conversation Women and the chilly climate at Scientific American

Liz Williams at the Guardian on the way science fiction reflects human belief Alastair Reynolds to write Doctor Who novel: Tansy and Alex’s obsessions in one package!

What Culture Have we Consumed?

Alisa: Maureen Johnson on www.whyy.org/podcast; Twin Peaks; Mercy (not genre but interesting feminism); Alex: sooo much Bujold (3rd, 4th and 5th omnibi, and Memory); lots of books, because of holidays! But particularly Heartless, Gail Carriger; Blackout, Connie Willis; Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, NK Jemisin... also Harry Potter 7 and Transformers 3. Tansy: The Demon’s Surrender, The Holy Terror & Robophobia (Big Finish), Subterranean’s YA Issue

Pet Subject: Feedback from our Joanna Russ episode

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Featuring:

How To Suppress Women's Writing, by Joanna Russ

The Female Man, by Joanna Russ

"When it Changed," by Joanna Russ

Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia @ gmail.com - we'd love to hear your stories of discovering and rediscovering Joanna Russ.

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In which “best” becomes “superior,” Pottermore is Pottermeh, one of us wins all the awards, and we visit/revisit classic non-hard works of SF and Fantasy by Bujold, Willis and Pratchett (with bonus Russian fairytales by Valente).

News

Pottermore announcement to be made during our podcast... http://www.youtube.com/JKRowlingAnnounces

Theodore Sturgeon finalists: http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=4340

David Gemmell Awards... http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=4358    

NatCon professional guests for next year are Kelly Link and Alison Goodman.

Chronos Awards  :D  http://continuum.org.au/c7/2011-chronos-award-winners/

Sidewise Awards finalists: http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=4349

Translation Awards winners: http://www.sfawardswatch.com/?p=4354

Stoker Awards http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/06/winners-2010-bram-stoker-awards/

Coode Street Horror Special with Stoker winners Datlow & Straub http://www.jonathanstrahan.com.au/wp/2011/06/18/episode-56-live-with-gary-k-wolfe-ellen-datlow-and-peter-straub/

Gender Spotting Tool - http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20581-genderspotting-tool-could-have-rumbled-fake-blogger.html Naff.

What Culture Have we Consumed? Alisa: Connie Willis’ Passage in progress, the next 3 Twelve Planets. Alex: so much Bujold (Cordelia’s Honor and Young Miles omnibuses... omnibi... whatever http://wp.me/p11HLi-L1, http://wp.me/p11HLi-Ll, http://wp.me/s11HLi-2947), Fly by Night, Frances Hardinge (http://wp.me/p11HLi-Lh), Red Glove, Holly Black. Series 2 of V (reboot) Tansy: Deathless, Catherynne Valente; I Shall Wear Midnight, Terry Pratchett; Wyrd Sisters audiobook, Terry Pratchett/Celia Imrie.

Next Fortnight: Galactic Suburbia’s Spoilerific Book Club Presents: Joanna Russ.  Reading How to Suppress Women’s Writing, The Female Man, “When It Changed.”

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In which we surf the wave of feminist SF news that has deluged the internet this fortnight, plus Margaret Brundage, why YA books are allowed to be as dark as they want to be, the Tiptree Award, Connie Willis, were-thylacines, Ted Chiang and Alex finally discovers Bujold...

News

Nicola Griffith on the m/f imbalance in an informal SF favourites poll in the Guardian http://asknicola.blogspot.com/2011/05/shocking-uk-sf-favourites-score-men-500.html The Guardian: Damien Walter, author of the poll & followup articles revises his comments in response to Griffith http://damiengwalter.com/2011/05/28/thoughts-on-500-sf-novels/ Niall Harrison follows up on Strange Horizons: http://www.strangehorizons.com/blog/2011/05/in_search_of_data.shtml Cheryl Morgan on invisibility of women (some really interesting discussion in the comments, too) http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=10805 The Guardian again, asking with wide innocent eyes if SF is inherently sexist http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/may/31/women-science-fiction-writers Ian Sales announces the SF Mistressworks blog project http://sfmistressworks.wordpress.com/ Nicola Griffith asks you to take the Joanna Russ pledge http://asknicola.blogspot.com/2011/06/taking-russ-pledge.html

Gwyneth Jones, Karen Traviss & Farah Mendlesohn talk on radio about the perception of women in British SF http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011c220 Transcript here: http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/womans-hour-women-and-sf/

MK Hobson on the term ‘bustlepunk’ and why there is a place for a domestic sub-genre of steampunk http://www.demimonde.com/2011/05/26/bustlepunk-revisited/ MK Hobson’s follow up post on the assumptions made about works coded ‘female’ http://mkhobson.livejournal.com/723255.html

2011 Chesley Award Finalists http://www.asfa-art.org/pages/06-currentawardspage.html Cheryl Morgan on female & trans artists http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=10850

Nine Reasons Women Don’t Edit Wikipedia http://suegardner.org/2011/02/19/nine-reasons-why-women-dont-edit-wikipedia-in-their-own-words/ (interesting, I think, in light of the recent spout of incidents we’ve watched, notably the one with Nick Mamatas where winning World Fantasy Award was considered too regional to be significant)

Wall Street Journal on YA fiction: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303657404576357622592697038.html?mod=wsj_share_twitter

Change to the Norma eligibility guidelines

Why Galactic Suburbia T-shirts are no longer available through RedBubble.

Con Quilt http://continuum.org.au/conquilt/

What Culture Have we Consumed? Tansy: Thyla, Kate Gordon; Will Supervillains Be on the Final? Naomi Novik Alisa: Coode St Podcast with Ellen Klages, Eileen Gunn and Geoff Ryman; Connie Willis - Even the Queen; Octavia Butler - Bloodchild Alex: Chill (http://randomalex.net/2011/06/01/chill-by-elizabeth-bear/), and Grail, Elizabeth Bear; The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Ted Chiang (http://randomalex.net/2011/05/28/the-lifecycle-of-software-objects/); Welcome to the Greenhouse, Gordon van Gelder (http://lastshortstory.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/welcome-to-the-greenhouse/); Steampunk! Kelly Link and Gavin Grant (http://lastshortstory.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/wild-about-steampunk/).

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In which we wax lyrical about awards, short stories and the love of reading.  Because it’s that time of year!

News Aurealis Awards http://www.aurealisawards.com/winners2010.pdf and Ceremony!

Nebula Awards http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/05/2011-nebula-award-winners

Translation Awards  http://www.sfftawards.org/?p=412

Aqueduct links to 25 commemorations of Joanna Russ http://aqueduct-amble.livejournal.com/271345.html

New podcast - http://wolverina.net/2011/05/16/first-podcast/ How I got my Boyfriend to Read Comics

Last Short Story is on Twitter @lastshortstory

New Galactic Chat: Kirstyn McDermott http://galactichat.podbean.com/2011/05/24/galactic-chat-04-kirstyn-mcdermott/

What Culture Have we Consumed? Tansy: The Shattering, Karen Healey Alex: The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (http://randomalex.net/2011/05/16/the-wise-man/); How to Suppress Women’s Writing, Joanna Russ; Welcome to Bordertown, Ellen Kushner and Terri Windling (http://lastshortstory.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/how-do-i-get-to-bordertown/); finished Stargate SG1 for the second time. Alisa: Ken Liu's Paper Menagerie (F&SF March/April), Joanna Russ’s We Who Are About To

Pet Subject: Last Short Story 2011

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