And this week the wonderful Genevieve Valentine joins us in the Waldorf Room to discuss Readercon and harrassment at conventions, steampunk, dystopias and After  and the recently released World Fantasy Awards ballot.  As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

Once again Gary and Jonathan ascend to the Waldorf Room high above the Coode St Motel Six, to find there’s not all that much happening in SF right now (where IS that World Fantasy Awards ballot?), and so they discuss books to give to people who are interesting in reading SF for the first time and a possible Coode St Award.

After a final July hiatus we’re back! This weekend Gary and I headed to the Waldorf Room to discuss thoughts on Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312 and SF set within our Solar System, World Fantasy Award Lifetime Achievement recipients Alan Garner and George R.R. Martin, and recent issues at Readercon. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!

When I was in Melbourne last month I was delighted to be invited to appear as a guest on Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond’s podcast, The Writer and the Critic. I had a wonderful evening out at Kirstyn’s house talking about life, the universe and podcasting, as well as getting to talk about Sean Stewart’s Galveston, Nnedi Okorafor’s Akata Witch, and Caitlin R. Kiernan’s The Drowning Girl.  You can find the podcast episode here, along with detailed show notes that allow you to jump to the part of the show that interests you most.

My sincere thanks to Ian and Kirstyn for having me on the show!!

After a short break, we’re back! Gary travelled to Massachusetts to attend Readercon 23 and managed to persuade convention guests of honor Caitlin R. Kiernan and Peter Straub to join us to discussCaitlin’s most recent novel The Drowning Girl,  writing, Readercon and much, much more. As always, we hope you enjoy the podcast!