Episode 19: Perplexed by hailstones

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
Photo of hailstones by Hornbeam Arts on Flickr.

Episode 18: Food for the soul

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 and 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 and 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 SFandF 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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