It’s awards season again (or maybe still), so Jonathan and Gary take a moment to remind everyone of the deadlines for nominating candidates for Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and Nebula Awards, and to discuss briefly a proposal to add a one-time category of “Best Fantasy Novel” to the Hugos at the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon.
They also chat a bit about the Best Related Work Hugo, and whether or not certain categories might be eliminated. First, however, they touch upon whether the central concerns of mainstream SF were laid down in the interwar era, as Paul Kincaid argues in a new essay. And then Niall Harrison's new collection, All These Worlds: Reviews and Essays. Finally, we touch upon the question of how important opening paragraphs and titles are when it comes to drawing a reader into a work of fiction.
Episode 591: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Nicola Griffith
Episode 590: The Coode Street Advent Calendar 2022
Episode 589: Announcing a Coode Street Advent Calendar
Episode 588: Let’s Talk About Space (Opera), Baybee...
Episode 587: Eileen Gunn and the Night Shift
Episode 586: Ray Nayler and Breaking Down Communicating
Episode 585: Caution - May Contain Traces of Kitten
Episode 584: Back on the ramble
Episode 583: John Kessel and a Life in Science Fiction
Episode 582: Rachel Swirsky and the Universality of Caring
Episode 581: Kate Heartfield and The Embroidered Book
Episode 580: Christopher Rowe and the Instrumentality of Influence
Episode 579: Remembering Patricia A. McKillip
Episode 578: Kind of dull, but it’s something
Episode 577: Books, classics, and collecting
Episode 576: Nicola Griffith and Spear
Episode 575: New books, old readers, and such
Episode 574: Kickstarters, communities, and more
Episode 573: The 2021 Locus Recommended Reading List
Episode 572: Genre, change, and the passage of time
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