David and Perry discuss:

• Best movies 2019 -- Perry
  • Avengers - Infinity War
  • Captain Marvel
  • All Is True
  • Knives Out
  • John Wick Chapter 3
• Best Movies 2019 -- David
  • Mortal Engines
  • First Man
  • Re-watched movies
• Best TV 2019 --Perry
  • Game of Thrones
  • For All Mankind
  • Mr Mercedes
• Best TV -- David
  • For All Mankind
  • Morning Wars
  • Good Omens
  • The Boys
  • Goliath
• Trying to keep up
• The Hugo Time Machine -- 1960
  • Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine
  • Short Fiction nominees
  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • The Twilight Zone
• The Outsider by Stephen King
• Wind-up

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Our longest episode yet! Perry and David discuss the Australian bushfire crisis and look back at the best books they read in 2019:

• Australian bushfire crisis
• Overview of 2019 reading -- David
• Overview of 2020 reading -- Perry
• SF & Fantasy -- David
  • Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
  • The Power by Naomi Alderman
  • The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
  • The Sudden Appearance of Hope by Claire North
• SF -- Perry
  • Blackfish City
  • Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
  • The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
  • Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Embers of War by Gareth Powell
• Honourable Mentions -- Perry
• Honourable Mentions -- David
• Fantasy -- Perry
  • Summerlong by Peter S. Beagle
  • Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
  • Fire And Blood by George R. R Martin
  • Witchmark by C. L. Polk
• Literary Fiction -- David
  • Standard Ebooks
  • Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
  • Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
  • Honourable Mentions -- David
• Literary Fiction -- Perry
  • To the Islands by Randolph Stowe
  • Possession by A. S. Byatt
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon
  • The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Plains by Gerald Murnane
  • Honourable Mentions -- Perry
• Horror -- Perry
  • Experimental Film by Gemma Files
  • Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
  • The Outsider by Stephen King
• Crime/Thriller -- David
  • The Woman in the Window by A. J. Finn
  • Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. Braddon
  • Moskva by Jack Grimwood
  • Crimson Lake and Redemption Point by Candice Fox
  • Honourable Mentions -- David
• Crime -- Perry
  • Sands of Windee by Arthur Upfield
  • The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
  • Kill Shot by Garry Disher
  • The Lost Man by Jane Harper
  • Redemption Point by Candice Fox
  • Honourable Mentions -- Perry
• Best Thriller/Spy -- Perry
  • Smiley's People by John Le Carre
  • The Chain by Adrian McKinty
• Young Adult -- David
  • The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pulman
  • Fever Crumb trilogy by Phillip Reeve
• Young Adult -- Perry
  • Gifts by Ursula K Le Guin
  • Greenwitch by Susan Cooper
• Anthologies & Single-Author Collections -- Perry
  • The Years Best Science Fiction : 33rd Annual Collection Edited by Gardner Dozois
  • The Best Science Fiction of the Year Volume 2 Edited by Neil Clarke
  • The Best SF&F of the Year: Volume Eleven Edited by Jonathan Stahan
  • Short Fiction by H. G. Wells
  • The Overneath by Peter S. Beagle
  • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
  • The Custodians and Other Stories by Richard Cowper
• Novellas -- Perry
  • Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
  • Time Was by Ian Mcdonald
  • Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
  • Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds
  • Honourable Mentions -- Perry
• Non-Fiction -- David
  • Blockbuster by Lucy Sussex
  • Doing Justice by Preet Bharara
  • South by Ernest Shackleton
  • Eggshell Skull by Bri Lee
  • A Mind Unraveled by Kurt Eichenwald
  • Honourable Mentions -- David
• Non Fiction -- Perry
  • On Writing by Stephen King
  • Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
  • Sagaland by Kari Gislason and Richard Fidler
  • Underland by Robert Macfarlane
  • The Shelf Life of Zora Cross by Cathy Perkins
• Honourable Mentions -- Perry
• Best Overall -- David
• Best Overall -- Perry
• Looking forward to -- David
• Looking forward to -- Perry
• Food for the soul
• Wind-Up

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