Episode 5: An Incomplete History of Serious Events
Posted in DefaultTag on Jun 17th, 2019 Comments
Perry and David, and their guest Leigh Edmonds talk about:
- Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
- Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
- Problem of walled gardens of content
- Geographical restrictions on content
- Interview with Leigh Edmonds
- Both past and future are unknowable
- England in the 17th Century
- Both SF and history written for the present
- History of Technology
- Tax office as example of technological change
- History of Australia as a struggle to overcome distance
- Science Fiction and history
- The reason to read SF
- History of SF fandom
- Period of radical change in Australia
- The sub-cultures of Melbourne
- The change in Australian culture
- SF floods into the country
- The Sydney Push
- Importance of letters and fanzines in early years
- Fundamental change due to computers
- Difficulty of publishing a fanzine
- Fanzine publishing before WWII
- Passing on technique
- Why the history of fandom needs to be written about
- Windup
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