Two ex-Worldcon Chairs talk about books, movies and other stuff
In this special episode, David and Perry give a talk at the Nova Mob about the SF novels of the 1960s. To decide on the best, we treat the exercise as a draft, each of us picking a title in turn in order to try to get the best “team”. Who will win?
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With co-host Perry still overseas, David discusses some recent awards and goes on to interview Rob Gerrand about writing and publishing in Australia, and then Murray MacLachlan about growing up in New Zealand and discovering science fiction and fantasy.
Perry and David discuss recent news; David talks about “Bewilderment”, the best book he’s read all year; Perry reviews a magnificent book about whales; and he interviews prominent fan Justin Ackroyd.
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Perry and David take the Hugo Time Machine on an expedition to the year 1966, the year when Dune won the Hugo Best Novel award as well as the Nebula Best Novel award.