Perry and David, and their guest Leigh Edmonds talk about:
- Perihelion Summer by Greg Egan (08:29)
- Whose Body? by Dorothy Sayers (02:16)
- The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope (02:13)
- A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket (06:52)
- Problem of walled gardens of content (01:47)
- Geographical restrictions on content (02:13)
- Interview with Leigh Edmonds (36:29)
- Both past and future are unknowable (02:41)
- England in the 17th Century (02:08)
- Both SF and history written for the present (01:50)
- History of Technology (02:27)
- Tax office as example of technological change (02:25)
- History of Australia as a struggle to overcome distance (00:44)
- Science Fiction and history (01:15)
- The reason to read SF (02:37)
- History of SF fandom (00:36)
- Period of radical change in Australia (00:17)
- The sub-cultures of Melbourne (01:23)
- The change in Australian culture (03:04)
- SF floods into the country (01:52)
- The Sydney Push (01:20)
- Importance of letters and fanzines in early years (04:49)
- Fundamental change due to computers (01:14)
- Difficulty of publishing a fanzine (00:30)
- Fanzine publishing before WWII (01:13)
- Passing on technique (00:20)
- Why the history of fandom needs to be written about (00:43)
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