Two Chairs Talking

fanzines

Episodes

Tuesday Sep 14, 2021

David and Perry discuss recent news and go on to discuss their projects outside the podcast. They also talk about some nominees for this year's Hugo Best Novel award.
Reading in bed (02:46)
Recent news (06:09)
Farewell Judith Hanna (02:45)
Piranesi wins The Women's Prize (01:17) [Interview with Neil Gaiman]
Centenary of the birth of Stanisław Lem (01:09)
Seven hundred years since the death of Dante (00:56)
Our other interests (20:22)
The Alien Review (14:22)
Through the Biblioscope (05:32)
Best Novel nominees for Hugos 2021 (30:36)
Network Effect by Martha Wells (15:39)
The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal (12:22)
Wind-up (00:34)
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Illustration: painting by Johann Wilhelm Schirmer (1807-1863)
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Tuesday Jun 08, 2021

Perry and David discuss science fiction fandom and their introduction to it via amateur magazine publishing. Perry interviews Rose Mitchell, the Fan Guest of Honour at CoNZealand, the 2020 Worldcon.
Nebula Awards 2021 (07:01)
Best Novel: Network Effect by Martha Wells (00:46)
Best Novella: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (00:59)
Best Novelette: “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker (00:19)
Best Short Story: “Open House on Haunted Hill”, John Wiswell (01:19)
Best Game Writing: Hades by Greg Kasavin (00:12)
Ray Bradbury Award: The Good Place (00:25)
Andre Norton Award: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T. Kingfisher (00:58)
Fanzines and Fandom (00:29)
What is a fanzine? (03:02)
Changes in terminology and technology (00:57)
Amateur Press Associations (00:19)
ANZAPA (01:26)
Wanting to be a writer (00:38)
How apas work (03:43)
General distribution fanzines (01:53)
Why publish a genzine? (01:07)
Visual design of fanzines (01:10)
Including illustrations (03:07)
Email and the Internet (04:02)
Changed the dynamic (03:04)
Ego scanning (01:56)
Access to old material (02:51)
Running conventions (01:49)
Younger people and fanzines (03:24)
Using up our creative energy (04:13)
Interview with Rose Mitchell (44:58)
Getting in to SF (04:53)
Becoming involved with organising (02:09)
Attending conventions (04:41)
Things started to change (00:22)
Melbourne SF Club (00:39)
Getting involved with Worldcon 1999 (01:16)
Appointed as Treasurer of convention (02:46)
Did the 1999 Worldcon change your ideas of fandom? (01:46)
After 1999 (01:31)
Running national and smaller conventions (01:44)
Chairing national conventions (00:29)
Attending overseas conventions (01:24)
Chair of the 2010 Worldcon (02:38)
After 2010 (03:15)
New Zealand Worldcon bid (02:44)
Fan Guest of Honour (07:22)
What does the future hold? (00:12)
Australian Science Fiction Foundation (00:14)
Fully retired (03:51)
Windup (01:29)
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Illustration: a selection of Australian fanzines.

Monday Jul 15, 2019

David and Perry discuss:
What are fanzines?
Amateur Press Associations
John Bangsund and ANZAPA
They also interview Bruce Gillespie, who talks about:
Melton
Bacchus Marsh
Hears about fandom
ASFR
Invited to stay with Bangsund
Meeting Harding, Turner, et al
First convention, MSFC
First 'fanzine' produced as schoolboy
Duplicators
Starting to produce fanzines
ANZAPA
Sent to Ararat
First two issues of SFC
Response from o/seas
Critical reviews of SF outside academia
John Foyster
Resigning from teaching in Ararat
Meets Gerald Murnane
Acquires own duplicator
Aussiecon
1977 extraordinary year
How have things changed?
Nostrilia Press
IBM Composer
Typesetting for Highland House & others
Desktop publishing comes in
Applying this to fanzines
Modern challenges
Bill Burns' Efanzine site
Comeback of fanzines
Will you continue?
Awards
Windup
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