Two Chairs Talking

2020-03

Episodes

Tuesday Mar 31, 2020

In a special Crime episode Perry and David, with special guest Dr. Lucy Sussex, discuss:
Social distancing
Clarification
Follow-up - Nebula Awards Voting
Gone By Midnight by Candice Fox
Hades, Eden, Fall by Candice Fox
The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
November Road by Lou Berney
Peace by Garry Disher
Books we're looking forward to
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Hugo nominated novellas and novels
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
Our plans)

Tuesday Mar 17, 2020

David and Perry discuss:
The Coronavirus Epidemic
How we rate books
Touch~Claire North
Hugo Awards for 2020
A Memory Called Empire~Arkady Martine
Infinite Detail~Tim Maughan
The Wicked Girls~Alex Marwood
The Mermaids Singing~Val McDermid
The Ten Thousand Doors of January~Alix E. Harrow
Daemon Voices~Philip Pullman
Clockwork~Philip Pullman
I Was a Rat~Philip Pullman
Blue Moon~Lee Child
Interview with Lucy Sussex
The Arsonist~Cloe Hooper
Kinglake-350~Adrian Hyland
The Wasp and the Orchid~Danielle Clode
Viv Albertine
Patrick Parker's Progress~Mavis Cheek
Farthing, Ha'Penny, Half a Crown~Jo Walton
Swastika Night~Katharine Burdekin
Generation Loss~Elizabeth Hand
Peace~Gary Disher
Interview with W. H. Chong
Black Leopard, Red Wolf~Marlon James
Red Moon~Kim Stanley Robinson
Lanny~Max Porter
Grief is a Thing With Feathers~Max Porter
Best SF of the Year~Strahan
Blackfish City~Sam J. Miller
The Wandering Earth collection~Liu Cixin
On the Beach~Neville Shute
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel~Alexander Chee
In the Garden of Beasts~Eric Larsen
Agency~William Gibson
The Rain Heron~Robbie Arnott
Windup.

Monday Mar 02, 2020

In this special episode, Perry and David speak to Rob Gerrand, Bruce Gillespie and Carey
Norstrilia Press Interview
How Norstrilia Press got started
Coming up with the name
Philip K. Dick - Electric Shepherd
Stanislaw Lem article sets off controversy
The Altered I (workshop book)
Rob Gerrand's involvement
The View From the Edge
Moon in the Ground by Keith Antill
Other SF publishers in Australia
Typesetting
Sales and Distribution
Roles of Carey, Bruce and Rob
Dancing Dragons by Damien Broderick
Transmutations
Stellar Gauge - Dreaming Dragons - Roger Zelazny poems
Academic studies of SF in the U.S.
Dreaming Dragons
Lavington Pugh by Jay Bland
Getting Reviews
The Plains by Gerald Murnane
Dreamworks anthology
An Unusual Angle by Greg Egan
In the Heart or in the Head by George Turner
Landscape with Landscape by Gerald Murnane
Funding problems
Down Deep scandal
Looking back on it
The role of Hyland House
Wind-up
Image: the logo of Norstrilia Press against a starry background (composite created by David Grigg).

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