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 323: Awards season begins...Hugo time!
Episode 322: Theodora Goss, John Kessel and Monstrous Stories
REPOST: Episode 71: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin!
Episode 321: Fairy tales, peaches, and so on...
Episode 320: Jane Yolen and a Life in Story
Episode 319: The Books of 2018
Episode 318: The End of the Year
Episode 317: Irene Gallo and the Art of Science Fiction
Episode 316: Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Warrior, Binti, and Beyond
Episode 315: Liz Bourke, Niall Harrison and Debut Novels of 2017
Episode 314: Annalee Newitz and Telling Stories About the Future
Episode 313: Jeffrey Ford and The Twilight Pariah
Episode 312: Fantasy 101, Helsinki and more
Episode 311: Walter Jon Williams, Kelly Robson and Helsinki!
Episode 310: The Years Best Books So Far, the XPrize and more
Episode 309: Epic fantasy, Campbell Awards and more
Episode 308: Paul Kincaid, Ken Macleod, and the works of Iain (M) Banks
Episode 307: Theodora Goss and the Alchemist's Daughter
Episode 306: Geoff Ryman and 100 African Writers of SFF
Episode 305: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Drowning of New York
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