Two Chairs Talking

Perry and David discuss:

• Intro
• The NBN
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
• Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
• Borderline by Mishell Baker
• Experimental Film by Gemma Files
• The Blood Doctor by Barbara Vine
• Possession by A. S. Byatt
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
• The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
• The Boys (Amazon Prime)
• Watchmen (HBO/Foxtel)
• His Dark Materials (BBC/HBO)
• For All Mankind (Apple TV+)
• Hugo Time Machine 1958
  • The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
  • Other books in the genre in 1958
  • Big Planet by Jack Vance
  • Cosmic Puppets and Eye in the Sky by P.K.Dick
  • Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
  • The Deep Range by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Door Into Summer and Citizen of the Galaxy by Heinlein
  • The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle
  • Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
  • On the Beach by Neville Shute
  • Wasp by Eric Frank Russell
  • Or All the Seas With Oysters
  • The Incredible Shrinking Man
• Windup

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David and Perry discuss:

• Intro
• Follow-up
  • Making of the Hugo rocketships
  • Naming of the Hugos
  • Don't use us as a reference!
• Hugo Time Machine 1957
  • Best Fan Magazine
  • Why no fiction awards?
  • What were the magazines publishing?
• Alien (1979)
• Aliens (1986)
• The Ridley Scott Alien Trilogy
• Blade Runner
• The Duelists
• Fire and Blood
• Are the Hugos a good guide to best SF?
  • The Power by Naomi Alderman
  • The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
  • Station Eleven by Evelyn St.John Mandel
  • 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
  • Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
  • Self-Published works
• Interview with Daniel Scott White
  • DSW: Unfit Magazine, Unreal Magazine
  • DSW: Platform Revolution
• Wind-up

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