Perry and David talk about:

• Follow-up
• Listening to our own episodes
• Getting our facts wrong
• Perry's views on diversity in the SF field
• Do the awards truly indicate quality?
• Other awards in the field
• Interview with Lucy Sussex
  • Discovering Mary Fortune
  • Ellen Davitt
  • 'Force and Fraud' - Australia's first murder mystery
  • Mary Fortune's reputation
  • Anticipates the police procedural
  • Police looked down on
  • French writer Émile Gaboriau
  • Australian interest in true crime
  • Wilkie Collins and 'The Moonstone'
  • Fascination with Australian settings
  • Mary Braddon
  • Ellen Wood
  • Marcus Clarke and 'His Natural Life'
  • 'The Mystery of a Hansom Cab'
  • 'Blockbuster'
  • Fergus Hume
  • Melbourne the centre of theatre
  • Nailed colonial Victoria
  • Unusual structure of the novel
  • Victoria's Chinese detective
  • Concept of The Great Detective
  • Crime novels as commentary on society
  • Marvellous Melbourne - only for some
  • 'Blockbuster' story of a publishing phenomenon
  • Frederick Trischler
  • Print run of 5,000
  • Hume sells copyright for £50
  • Kicks off interest in crime fiction
  • Interest in Australia
  • Pirated in the United States
  • Literature a dicey business
  • Theatrical versions
  • Hume goes to England
  • Was Hume gay?
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Blackmail?
  • Theosophy
  • Spiritualism - Doyle, Houdini
  • Hume's connections in England
  • Haddon Chambers
  • Lucy's further research
  • Anne Perry
  • Further research
• Windup

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David and Perry discuss:

• Recent reading
• Fire and Blood by George R. R. Martin
• Ian Tregillis
  • The Milkweed Triptych by Ian Tregillis
  • The Alchemy Wars by Ian Tregillis
  • Something More Than Night by Ian Tregillis
• Binge reading
• The Hugo Time Machine 1956
  • Double Star by Robert Heinlein
  • Heinlein's sexual attitudes
  • Other nominees
  • Three to Conquer by Eric Frank Russell
  • End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
  • The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
  • First woman to be nominated
  • Exploration Team by Murray Leinster
  • The Star by Arthur C. Clarke
  • End As A World by F.L. Wallace
  • Game of Rat and Dragon by Cordwainer Smith
  • Astounding SF Magazine
• John W. Campbell Jnr
• Controversy over Award Naming
  • Criticism by Jeanette Ng
  • JWC Memorial Award
  • World Fantasy Award
  • James Tiptree Jnr Award
  • Arthur C. Clarke Award
  • Hugo Gernsback
  • Perils of naming awards after people
  • The Oscars
• 2019 Hugos
  • The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
  • For All Mankind
  • Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
  • If At First You Don't Succeed by Zen Cho
  • A Witch's Guide to Escape by Alix E. Harrow
  • Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers
  • Archive of Our Own
  • Into the Spider-Verse
  • The Good Place
  • Hugo Awards Website
• Windup

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