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

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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

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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

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Image: the logo of Norstrilia Press against a starry background (composite created by David Grigg).

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