Two Chairs Talking

2019-07

Episodes

Tuesday Jul 30, 2019

Perry and David discuss:
Introduction
Perry's overseas trip
Hugo Time Machine 1955
They'd Rather Be Right by Mark Clifton and Frank Riley
The Darfsteller by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell
Kate Atkinson
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
Started Early, Took My Dog by Kate Atkinson
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
John Le Carre's Karla trilogy
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold by John Le Carre
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre
An Honourable Schoolboy by John Le Carre
Smiley's People by John Le Carre
Windup
Image based on photo of sunset by Ali Arapoğlu from Pexels

Monday Jul 15, 2019

David and Perry discuss:
What are fanzines?
Amateur Press Associations
John Bangsund and ANZAPA
They also interview Bruce Gillespie, who talks about:
Melton
Bacchus Marsh
Hears about fandom
ASFR
Invited to stay with Bangsund
Meeting Harding, Turner, et al
First convention, MSFC
First 'fanzine' produced as schoolboy
Duplicators
Starting to produce fanzines
ANZAPA
Sent to Ararat
First two issues of SFC
Response from o/seas
Critical reviews of SF outside academia
John Foyster
Resigning from teaching in Ararat
Meets Gerald Murnane
Acquires own duplicator
Aussiecon
1977 extraordinary year
How have things changed?
Nostrilia Press
IBM Composer
Typesetting for Highland House and others
Desktop publishing comes in
Applying this to fanzines
Modern challenges
Bill Burns' Efanzine site
Comeback of fanzines
Will you continue?
Awards
Windup

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