Coming Soon: Episode 200…LIVE!
That’s right. To celebrate our 200th episode, we’re going to record it LIVE on Google+/YouTube. That means you’ll get to listen to and/or watch us act like crazy people for several hours, which we all know will be a lot of fun, right? When and where? Monday, April 21st at 6:30-8:30 PM EST (we will post here and Tweet a link to the YouTube stream as soon as it goes live; the time is arbitrary and may be slightly short or slightly longer depending on need) What should you expect? Celebrating 200 episodes, a world sf discussion, and a trivia game! What can you do? You can watch the live episode, for one. And you can share the news! You can also submit trivia questions via this form (please read it before submitting) Put it on your calendar!
Top 10 Episodes and Blog Posts for March 2014
No introductions needed. Here goes. Top Episodes: #17 — Babylon 5 Re-Watch (S1D4: Eps. 13-16) — A Shoot the WISB Subcast w/ Jamie Wyman & Erika Ensign 195. Sons of Steel (1988): A Torture Cinema “Adventure” w/ Danny Oz 116. Season of the Witch — A Torture Cinema “Adventure” Episode 96 — An Interview w/ Sherwood Smith (a.k.a. Scribbles and Cream) Episode 4.2 — Torture Cinema Meets The Wicker Man 190. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (2009): A Torture Cinema “Adventure” #16 — Godzilla (1954) — A Shoot the WISB Discussion 193. New Zealander Speculative Fiction w/ Helen Lowe, Norman Cates, & Stephen Minchin #15 — Babylon 5 Re-Watch (S1D3: Eps. 9-12) — A Shoot the WISB Discussion #10 — Babylon 5 Re-Watch (S1D1: Eps. 1-4) — A Shoot the WISB Discussion Top Blog Posts: Mining the Genre Asteroid: The Saga of Pliocene Exile by Julian May (by Paul Weimer) My Superpower: Marianne de Pierres The Disquieting Guest — The Sublime Terror of Kaiju by David Annandale My Superpower: Steve McHugh Business Time: Self-publishing vendors and ‘royalties’ by Mike Underwood For Your Hugo Award Consideration: A Very Big, Non-Endorsement List of Things to Love by Shaun Duke Book Review: Debris by Jo Anderton (by Paul Weimer) A (World) SFF Film Odyssey: Mutant Girls Squad (2010) and Anime’s Excesses by Shaun Duke Cultural Tourists (Part 1): Publishing and Representation by Charles A. Tan The Masks the Monsters Left Behind by Romeo Kennedy (Guest Post)
A Note on Hugo Awards and The Stars Change by Mary Anne Mohanraj
Today is the deadline for Hugo Award nominations. If you haven’t voted yet, get your ballot filled out right now! We are, of course, eligible in the Best Fancast and Best Fanzine categories, along with a lot of other wonderful folks. So…vote! In the interest of ballot-related things, I’d like to draw your attention to Mary Anne Mohanraj’s The Stars Change, which we talked about briefly in an upcoming episode recorded at ICFA this year (along w/ Cecilia Tan). I knew I wouldn’t be able to get the episode up in time for folks to listen to it pre-ballot-deadline, so I promised to write a little post about the book. In short, it’s an intriguing work, and our discussion covered such interesting topics as sexuality, Sri Lankan politics, and more. If anything, this post should serve as a reminder that it is, in fact, eligible this year. Here are some details about the book, which is published by Circlet Press:
Torture Cinema Poll: Pick Our March 2014 Flick!
A slight change to the way we do polls: you can now pick your top three, and the polls will now include 10 entries from our very long list. This should make things interesting! You know the drill. VOTE!
The World SF Tour: Marvelous March Dates!
Here’s what’s on the tour docket for March: 3/14: Shoot the WISB episode on Godzilla (1954) 3/18: Shoot the WISB episode on Babylon 5 (Season One; Disc Four) w/ Erika Ensign & Jaimie Wyman 3/29: Discussion of Brazilian speculative fiction (tentative) 3/31: Torture Cinema (title TBA) D/U: Discussion of Japanese speculative fiction (tentative) D/U: Interview w/ Sofia Samatar at ICFA (tentative) D/U: Other recordings at ICFA are TBA; we may or may not drop them in March, depending on which episodes have to be pushed back to April D/U = Date Undetermined There are still a bunch of things up in the wind for March, but we should have everything figured out by the end of the week!
For Your Hugo Award Consideration: A Very Big, Non-Endorsement List of Things to Love
We’re not going to release a Skiffy and Fanty endorsed set of Hugo Award nomination lists this year (though I might do so on my personal blog in the next month). Yes, we’re eligible for Best Fancast (and technically you can nominate our Sharknado episode for Best Related Work OR “The Great Lake Conspiracy (A Mustache and the Mutt Mystery)” for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) if you want to be cute). We do appreciate every vote we’ve received so far. But this post isn’t about us. It’s about all the books, writers, critics, movies, and so on that have been a part of the show throughout 2013. So what follows is a giant list of possibilities. At the very least, it’ll give you something new to check out. Here goes (only eligible works will be listed; Torture Cinema films have been left off, because you shouldn’t vote for them anyway):
