David and Perry discuss 1961, an amazingly good year for science fiction:

• Hugo Time Machine (1961)
• Novel nominees
  • Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys
  • The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
  • Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
  • Deathworld by Harry Harrison
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jnr
  • Other books which might have been nominated
• Short Fiction nominees
  • Need by Theodore Sturgeon
  • The Lost Kafoozalum by Pauline Ashwell
  • Open to Me, My Sister by Phillip Jose Farmer
  • The Longest Voyage by Poul Anderson
  • Other possible nominees
• Windup

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Perry and David discuss:

• Follow-ups
• What we've been reading
  • Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
  • The Lost City of Z by David Grand
  • Nova Mob - Ian Mond's recommendations
  • Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
  • Ordinary People by Sally Rooney
  • Voices by Ursula Le Guin
  • The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace
  • Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
• The Shelflife of Zora Cross - Interview with Lucy Sussex
• Interstellar - the movie
• What we have planned

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