Two Chairs Talking

Episode 6: Moth, rust, and men with matches

Perry and David discuss:
Are you a serial or parallel reader?
Hugo Time Machine 1954
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Telling by Ursula Le Guin
A Case of Conscience by James Blish
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Chesley Bonestell
Ex Machina

Episode 5: An Incomplete History of Serious Events

Perry and David, and their guest Leigh Edmonds talk about:
Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan
Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
Problem of walled gardens of content
Geographical restrictions on content
Interview with Leigh Edmonds
Both past and future are unknowable
England in the 17th Century
Both SF and history written for the present
History of Technology
Tax office as example of technological change
History of Australia as a struggle to overcome distance
Science Fiction and history
The reason to read SF
History of SF fandom
Period of radical change in Australia
The sub-cultures of Melbourne
The change in Australian culture
SF floods into the country
The Sydney Push
Importance of letters and fanzines in early years
Fundamental change due to computers
Difficulty of publishing a fanzine
Fanzine publishing before WWII
Passing on technique
Why the history of fandom needs to be written about
Windup
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Episode 4: Into the Hugo-Verse!

Perry and David talk about:
Hugo Short Fiction
Hugo Time Machine 1953
The Demolished Man
Galaxy Magazine
Hugo Novels
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
Revanant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
The Expanse Series by James S. A. Corey
Standard Ebooks
Copyright
Such is Life by Joseph Furphy
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
All is True movie
Wind-up
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Episode 3: I am the one and only

Perry and David talk about:
Introduction
Hugo Season
Hugo Nominees
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Australian Crime Fiction
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume
Bony Novels by Arthur Upfield
Scrublands by Chris Hammer
Moon - with Sam Rockwell
Windup

Episode 2: Generation after generation

Welcome to our second episode! In this episode Perry Middlemiss and David Grigg talk about:
Introduction
Fixup
David's introduction to reading
SF Novellas
Murderbot Series
Binti Series
Wayward Children Series
The Power
Generation Starships
Passengers
Aurora by KSR
Book of the New Sun
An Unkindness of Ghosts
Mortal Engines
Doing Justice
Peak Geekdom
Dark is Rising Series
50 years of SF Commentary

Episode 1: Star-cold and the dread of space

This is the very first episode of Two Chairs Talking, in which David Grigg and Perry Middlemiss, both ex-chairmen of World Science Fiction Conventions talk about:
Introduction
Genres
Australian Poetry
How Do You Read So Many Books?
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg
Setting Quotas
Records of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Nominations
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Possession by A. S. Byatt