The Skiffy and Fanty Show Podcasts

#18. Summer Wars (2009) w/ Daniel Huddleston — #WorldSFTour

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/ShootTheWISB18SummerWars2009WDanielHuddlestonWorldSFTour/Shoot%20the%20WISB%20%2318%20–%20Summer%20Wars%20%282009%29%20w%20Daniel%20Huddleston%20–%20%23WorldSFTour.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSRogue A.I., family troubles, and MMO-run civilizations, oh my!  To celebrate Japanese cinema, we’re joined by translator Daniel Huddleston for a discussion of Mamoru Hosoda’s 2009 film, Summer Wars.  You may be familiar with Hosoda’s other excellent work, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time; Summer Wars is also an excellent work. We hope you enjoy the episode! Spoiler Alert:  the following podcast contains spoilers for the film being reviewed; if you wish to see the film without having it ruined for you, download this podcast and save it for later.   Download the episode here. [audio http://archive.org/download/ShootTheWISB18SummerWars2009WDanielHuddlestonWorldSFTour/Shoot%20the%20WISB%20%2318%20–%20Summer%20Wars%20%282009%29%20w%20Daniel%20Huddleston%20–%20%23WorldSFTour.mp3] Show notes (info about our contributors can be found on the about page): Summer Wars (IMDB) Mamoru Hosoda (IMDB) Daniel Huddleston’s translation work: Virus by Sakyo Komatsu Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Endo by Miyuki Miyabe Speculative Japan 3 Comment away!

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Cultural Tourists (Part 2): Publishing and Representation

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Wendy Xu has a brilliant and critical assessment of racism in Eleanor and Park, and it’s tempered by Mike Jung’s post on how he can experience both love and be troubled by the novel. The latter is one of the complicated experiences of a reader is who is not privileged, who constantly struggles to find themselves in the literature they read and who sometimes settles for any representation. If in Part 1 I talked about the behavior of cultural tourists, let’s look at the larger implications of that here. In the Philippines for example, we have several talented authors like Eliza Victoria, Ian Rosales Casocot, and Dean Francis Alfar. Unfortunately, their readership is dwarfed by the number of fans of Western authors like Robert Jordan, J.K. Rowling, and George R. R. Martin. If our authors aren’t being read in our own country, how much better will they fare overseas? And this isn’t a scenario unique to the Philippines. It happens to a lot of countries affected by colonialism or imperialism (or both).

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Announcement: Live Recording of Episode #202 (Torture Cinema Meets Highlander II: the Quickening)

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Swords, first time flyers, and overacting, oh my!  In our 2nd ever live-recording, the crew (Jen and Julia) are joined by Michael J. Martinez to tear apart Highlander II: the Quickening (1991).  This month’s movie was selected by Mike as part of Shaun’s Worldcon fundraiser (the 5th Milestone Perk). All Torture Cinema episodes come with a skit.  Since we’re recording live, the skit will be a teaser for the mp3 version.  If you want to hear us do impressions of Sean Connery or what have you, you’ll be able to DL the mp3 from the main feed on this blog when it is released on April 30th. 2014. Feel free to join us at 10 PM EST on April 25th, 2014 (Friday).  The Q&A function will be turned on; your comments and questions are more than welcome!

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200. We’re 200! (Hugos, World SF, and Trivia w/ the ENTIRE Crew)

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http://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SandFEpisode200HugosWorldSFAndTrivia/SandF%20–%20Episode%20200%20–%20Hugos%2C%20World%20SF%2C%20and%20Trivia.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS200 freaking episodes!  Holy moly on toast!  For our special 200th episode, the entire gang got together on Google+ to talk about being nominated for a Hugo Award, the importance of world sf, listener questions, and more.  Plus, we break out the first ever Skiffy and Fanty Trivia Game! I’ve included the mp3 and a YouTube video of our recording in this post; choose your poison! We hope you enjoy the episode! (Please support our efforts to bring the Skiffy and Fanty Show and the World SF Tour to Worldcon!  Every little bit helps.) Note:  If you have iTunes and like this show, please give us a review on our iTunes page, or feel free to email us with your thoughts about the show! Here’s the episode (show notes are below): Episode 200 — Download (MP3) (The actual episode starts at 3:22 in the video.) You can also support this podcast by signing up for a one month free trial at Audible.  Doing so helps us, gives you a change to try out Audible’s service, and brings joy to everyone. Our new intro music is “Time Flux” by Revolution Void (CC BY 3.0). That’s all, folks!  Thanks for listening.  See you next week.

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Geekomancer Under Glass — Spring 2014 Pilots

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We’re solidly into the Spring 2014 TV season now in the US, so I’ve watched a few pilots, SF/F and other, to share my thoughts with you all, the Skiffy and Fanty readership. I’ve avoided all but the most basic spoilers, since all three of these shows employ the Fifth Act Twist. The 100 The 100, adapted from the novel of the same name by author Kass Morgan, is another entry in the CW’s effort to become the new Sci-Fi channel. Just as there was a rush of YA SF/F literature, it only makes sense that there would be a corresponding wave of YA SF/F television, and here we are. 97 years after a devastating nuclear war, life support is running out on the Ark, a hodgepodge mega-space-station cobbled together when the surface world got all toasty. In an effort to buy more time for the grown-ups, and to see if the surface is habitable, 100 juvenile inmates are dropped back to the surface, despite the fact that as far as the people on the station know, the surface is supposed to still be lethally radioactive.

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New to The Skiffy and Fanty Show podcast? Hello!

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Hi there! You may have come here because we were nominated for a 2014 Hugo Award for best Fancast. In which case, welcome! Skiffy and Fanty is a blog, and most pertinently, a weekly fan podcast created by Shaun Duke and Jen Zink, Me, I’m Paul Weimer. You probably know me as @princejvstin on Twitter. If you run an F/SF blog, its likely I’ve commented on it. I joined Skiffy and Fanty in 2012.  In 2013, the Skiffy and Fanty show added a whole bunch of new people in our efforts to bring genre goodness to you on the blog and on the podcast: Mike R Underwood: Author, and works at Angry Robot Books Julia Rios: Fiction Editor and Podcaster in her own right. (The Outer Alliance) Stina Leicht: Fantasy Author ( Of Blood and Honey  and And Blue Skies from Pain) David Annandale: Fantasy Author of Warhammery goodness, Kaiju Master, and Teacher. Skiffy and Fanty as a podcast has a couple of different varieties of episodes. We’ve been accused of having an identity crisis (hello, Jonathan McCalmont!)  but we do all sorts of stuff on the podcast you might like to listen to: We interview authors like Adam Christopher. We have discussion episodes like, say, SF and Music with John Anealio and Peter Orullian This year we are doing our World SF Tour, with roundtables of genre people to connect with fiction from around the world. Like our recent Brazilian SF episode We sometimes watch something topical or not so topical and then discuss it. Like our opinions on the 1954 Godzilla. And, perhaps most infamously, sometimes we get together, get inebriated and discuss horrible, bad SF movies. Like, yes, Sharknado! We’re the Skiffy and Fanty podcast and we’re delighted for you to listen and tell us what you think.        

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