Two Chairs Talking

2021-08

Episodes

Episode 60: Tales Twice Told

Tuesday Aug 31, 2021

Tuesday Aug 31, 2021

Perry and David discuss recent award winners, the nominees for the Short Story category of this year's Hugos, and the books they've been reading.
Letters of Comment (04:06)
Awards (07:38)
Ned Kelly Award winners (03:38)
Davitt Awards (01:04)
Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (02:55)
Hugo Awards - Short Story Nominees (26:32)
A Guide for Working Breeds by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (02:41)
The Mermaid Astronaut by Yoon Ha Lee (03:09)
Badass Moms of the Zombie Apocalypse by Rae Carson (02:31)
Little Free Library by Naomi Kritzer (03:11)
Metal Like Blood in the Dark by T. Kingfisher (04:47)
Open House on Haunted Hill by John Wiswell (02:30)
Our Rankings (05:56)
What we've been reading (24:52)
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford (04:20)
A Stairway to Paradise by Madeleine St. John (04:48)
The End of the World is Bigger Than Love by Davina Bell (04:22)
Say No to Death by Dymphna Cusack (11:15)
New website (01:06)
Windup (01:31)
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Tuesday Aug 17, 2021

David and Perry discuss the nominees in the Novelette category for this year's Hugo Awards, and go on to talk about their other recent reading.
Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award (03:15)
Davitt Award shortlist (02:58)
Hugo Award Novelette Nominees (36:18)
The Pill by Meg Elison (05:03)
Helicopter Story by Isabell Fall (06:43)
Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super by A. T. Greenblatt (03:10)
The Inaccessibility of Heaven by Aliette de Bodard (05:56)
Two Truths and a Lie by Sarah Pinsker (08:29)
Monster by Naomi Kritzer (06:03)
What we've been reading (30:33)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (07:23)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (07:48)
Foundation by Isaac Asimov (07:20)
The End of the Day by Claire North (07:16)
Windup (01:00)
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Episode 58: An eye on the box

Tuesday Aug 03, 2021

Tuesday Aug 03, 2021

Perry and David discuss recent award shortlists and then go on to talk about television shows they have recently watched.
Awards Season (14:14)
Ned Kelly Awards (03:52)
World Fantasy Awards (03:58)
The Age Book of the Year Award (03:00)
Booker Prize (02:52)
What we've been watching on television (43:41)
Absentia (05:59)
Mare of Easttown (08:17)
Broadchurch (06:35)
Loki (06:52)
Hanna (08:46)
The Falcoln and the Winter Soldier (06:50)
Windup (02:14)
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