Announcements and Errata

Announcements and Errata

We’re Nominated for a Hugo Award!

Did you hear the exciting news?  DID YOU?  We’re officially on the final ballot for the 2014 Hugo Awards!  How cool is that? So a few quick things to say: We’re on the Hugo Award ballot! OMG! A whole bunch of you nominated us!  Thank you ever so much.  We love you.  We really do.  You are all so super awesome.  Also:  thank you so much for listening to our show!  We’ll give you free cookies one day.  Promise. We’re on the Hugo Award ballot! OMG!  Wait…I already said that.  Oh well. So what does this mean?  Simple: We’re on the ballot, which means all of you who have attending or supporting memberships will be able to vote for us or one of the other lovely podcasts that made it to the final list (also:  all the books, short stories, movies, and what not that got nominated).  It’s up to you! If you haven’t purchased a supporting membership, you should probably do so right now so you can vote!  And not just for us, because that would be silly and self-serving.  No.  You should get a supporting membership because a) all the cool kids are doing it; b) you’ll get a huge packet of free reads (not guaranteed, but it always happens these days); c) to support the Hugo Awards by making it bigger and better than ever before; and d) to have a say in what gets an award! It also means we could really use your support to bring The Skiffy and Fanty Show to Worldcon this year.  We need to at least raise the funds for the plane ticket by the end of this month, so if you can spare $10, please do so!  Julia and Shaun would love to attend the convention and sit among the nominees at the Hugo Awards (and Jen is planning to make this happen now, too, which is awesome). And that’s it!  Thanks so much for nominating us.  Thanks to the Hugo committee folks for sending us the amazing news.  Thanks to everyone who has supported us in any way:  listeners, readers, hosts, friends, writers and sf/f fans…thank you all. Squeeeee! —————————————————————- P.S.:  Don’t forget that we’re hosting our 200th episode live on Monday!  Details here.

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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!

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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)

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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:

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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!

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