Another busy Saturday morning, Friday evening, and time for another missive sent out to the interwebs. Gary and I jumped (well strolled) into the pod without any set plans on what to discuss and ended up talking about L. Ron Hubbard, movies, Fringe, the evils (or inconveniences) of PDFs, and lots of other stuff.
On a serious note, we also discussed Tehani Wessely’s After the Flood Queensland Flood ebook. Please do support it, and the Queensland flood victims, by donating $A10.00 and getting a copy of the ebook. Also, if you like the book give some thought to going back to Fablecroft’s site in April and buying the physical book too.
There was an air of unfinished business in the pod this morning as I got Gary K. Wolfe on the line from sunny Chicago and we discussed the Coode St Best of 2011 and many other things. It is very much our usual natter, and as always, we hope you find it of interest. And, oops, we ran long. Sorry!
After a little too much New Year and birthday cheer we had technical difficulties, but Gary and I still found time to discuss birthday presents, Heinlein, 1967 as a transition year for science fiction, where non-academic cricitism has a role to play in modern SF, and previewed the Coode Street Best of 2010 (we name our top books of the year, but explanations wait for next week).
Here in Australia the day after Christmas is a special one, dedicated to winding down after a day of feasting and gift giving, laughter and merriment. Things slow down – unless you have a taste for the mega-discount sales – and people tend to relax with family.
This morning, Perth time, at least, a bunch of participants in Australian podcasting joined together to record a Boxing Day Super Mega Podcast. Participating were:
It was seven people talking, in a fairly organised manner about their highlights of 2010 and what they’re looking forward to in 2011. We all hope you enjoy it, and that you check out the individual podcasts that will be coming out in future weeks and months.
The original episode 31 didn’t work out, so we knuckled down and did it again just so we would have it all done and dusted, as promised. We discussed some of the same things, but also got to the Coode St Book Club, more apocalypses, and our favorite books of the year.
