It’s time for our second episode and this one is packed with SO MANY MEDIA MENTIONS. Kay and Chelsea chat about the nominees for this year’s Hugo Awards. The winners will be announced on Friday, August 11 at WorldCon 75 in Helsinki. If you’d like to buy a membership to a) get a copy of the voter packet full of lots of great reads for an amazing value b) vote in this year’s Hugos and nominate for next year’s Hugos, you can buy a supporting membership for $40 US any time until Saturday, July 15, 11:59pm PDT. (Find out what time that is for you here.)
We know, we’re getting this episode in just under the wire.
Please note that Kay spent roughly five thousand years assembling the shownotes for this episode, so:
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Time Stamps:
- Intro: 00:00 – 00:46
- Hugos Discussion: 00:46-38:18
- Upcoming Reads & Outro: 38:18- 39:37
Media Mentions from Today’s Episode:
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
- A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
- The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
- Death’s End by Cixin Liu, transl. Ken Liu
- Buy, Borrow, Bypass: 2017 Best Novel Hugo Awards Finalists
- The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
- The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
- Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold
- A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson
- This Census-Taker by China Miéville
- Alien Stripper Boned From Behind By The T-Rex, by Stix Hiscock
- The Art of Space Travel by Nina Allan
- The Jewel and Her Lapidary by Fran Wilde
- The Tomato Thief by Ursula Vernon
- Touring with the Alien by Carolyn Ives Gilman
- You’ll Surely Drown Here If You Stay by Alyssa Wong
- The City Born Great by N. K. Jemisin
- A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong
- Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies by Brooke Bolander
- Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar
- Robots vs Faeries anthology from Saga Press, Jan 2018 release
- That Game We Played During the War by Carrie Vaughn
- An Unimaginable Light by John C. Wright
- The Geek Feminist Revolution by Kameron Hurley
- The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
- Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Robert Silverberg and Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
- The View From the Cheap Seats, by Neil Gaiman
- The Women of Harry Potter posts by Sarah Gailey
- Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016 by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Black Panther, Volume 1: A Nation Under Our Feet written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, illustrated by Brian Stelfreeze
- Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening written by Marjorie Liu, illustrated by Sana Takeda
- Ms. Marvel, Volume 5: Super Famous written by G. Willow Wilson, illustrated by Takeshi Miyazawa
- Paper Girls, Volume 1 written by Brian K. Vaughan, illustrated by Cliff Chiang, colored by Matthew Wilson, lettered by Jared Fletcher
- Saga, Volume 6 illustrated by Fiona Staples, written by Brian K. Vaughan, lettered by Fonografiks
- The Vision, Volume 1: Little Worse Than A Man written by Tom King, illustrated by Gabriel Hernandez Walta
- Arrival
- Deadpool
- Ghostbusters
- Hidden Figures
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Stranger Things, Season One
- Black Mirror: “San Junipero”
- Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”
- The Expanse: “Leviathan Wakes”
- Game of Thrones: “Battle of the Bastards”
- Game of Thrones: “The Door”
- Splendor & Misery [album] by Clipping
- Sana Takeda
- John Picacio
- Victo Ngai
- Chris McGrath
- Julie Dillon
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- Beneath Ceaseless Skies, editor-in-chief and publisher Scott H. Andrews
- Cirsova Heroic Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine, edited by P. Alexander
- GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Rashida J. Smith
- Strange Horizons, edited by Niall Harrison, Catherine Krahe, Vajra Chandrasekera, Vanessa Rose Phin, Li Chua, Aishwarya Subramanian, Tim Moore, Anaea Lay, and the Strange Horizons staff
- Uncanny Magazine, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Michi Trota, Julia Rios, and podcast produced by Erika Ensign & Steven Schapansky
- The Book Smugglers, edited by Ana Grilo and Thea James
- Castalia House Blog, edited by Jeffro Johnson
- Journey Planet, edited by James Bacon, Chris Garcia, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Helena Nash, Errick Nunnally, Pádraig Ó Méalóid, Chuck Serface, and Erin Underwood
- Lady Business, edited by Clare, Ira, Jodie, KJ, Renay, and Susan
- nerds of a feather, flock together, edited by The G, Vance Kotrla, and Joe Sherry
- Rocket Stack Rank, edited by Greg Hullender and Eric Wong
- SF Bluestocking, edited by Bridget McKinney
- The Coode Street Podcast, presented by Gary K. Wolfe and Jonathan Strahan
- Ditch Diggers, presented by Mur Lafferty and Matt Wallace
- Fangirl Happy Hour, presented by Ana Grilo and Renay Williams
- Galactic Suburbia, presented by Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce and Tansy Rayner Roberts, produced by Andrew Finch
- The Rageaholic, presented by RazörFist
- Tea and Jeopardy, presented by Emma Newman with Peter Newman
- Mike Glyer
- Jeffro Johnson
- Natalie Luhrs
- Foz Meadows
- Abigail Nussbaum
- Chuck Tingle
- Ninni Aalto
- Elizabeth Leggett
- Vesa Lehtimäki
- Likhain (M. Sereno)
- Spring Schoenhuth
- Steve Stiles
- The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone
- The Expanse by James S.A. Corey
- The October Daye Books by Seanan McGuire
- The Peter Grant / Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch
- The Temeraire series by Naomi Novik
- The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
- Sarah Gailey (2nd year of eligibility) – Note that we say in the episode it’s Gailey’s first year of eligibility; this was incorrect and WorldCon 75 has since updated the ballot. It’s her second and final year of eligibility.
- J. Mulrooney (1st year of eligibility)
- Malka Older (2nd year of eligibility)
- Ada Palmer (1st year of eligibility)
- Laurie Penny (2nd year of eligibility)
- Kelly Robson (2nd year of eligibility)
And a list of works included in the Hugo Voter’s packet (seriously, the $40 membership is worth it if your budget can swing it):
In addition to the works listed in the above tweet:
- Haunted by Sarah Gailey
- An Equation of Almost Infinite Complexity by J. Mulrooney
- Infomocracy by Malka Older
- Tear Tracks by Malka Older
- The Black Box by Malka Older
- The Rupture by Malka Older
- Blue Monday by Laurie Penny
- Everything Belongs to the Future by Laurie Penny
- The Killing Jar by Laurie Penny
- Your Orisons May Be Recorded by Laurie Penny
- The Three Resurrections of Jessica Churchill by Kelly Robson
- Two-Year Man by Kelly Robson
- Waters of Versailles by Kelly Robson
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