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Torture Cinema Polls

Torture Cinema Poll #17: You Decide!

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In order to help us move around our now enormous list of terrible films (50 titles long!), we’re going to start randomizing the items that appear on our polls.  This way, we’ll make the voting a little more interesting by constantly cycling different batches of films to our lovely listeners.  And so, I present you our 17th Torture Cinema poll!  Vote away! (Note:  Please do not vote for Hardware.  I have since removed it from the list due to excessive gore and an apparent robot rape scene.  We should be more specific about content restrictions in the future, but please note that we will not watch any movie containing a rape scene, whether successful or otherwise.  We also have a hard time handling excessive gore and will have to strike off supernatural or science fiction horror films that involve a lot of gore — Jason X is probably our limit.  In this case, Hardware was stricken off due to the presence of an attempted rape scene.  As horrible as the films chosen for our Torture Cinema feature may be, we draw the line at subjects that are, at the very least, grossly offensive to our listeners as comedic material.  Rape is one of those topics.  Thank you for your understanding!) IMDB Pages: Suburban Commando Hardware Space Mutiny Birdemic Prophecy

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Myke Cole Wins Compton Crook Award!

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We’re told by the Internet that our friend, Myke Cole, has snatched up a Compton Crook Award from the Baltimore Science Fiction Society this year for his novel Control Point.  We’d like to say an enormous congratulations to Myke.  He definitely deserves the award.  Jen and I (and I’m sure Paul and Julia, too) have enjoyed both of his novels, and we’ve enjoyed every second he’s given to us for podcasts.  I imagine this is just the beginning for Myke’s career. Soon, we’ll see his name on other awards lists. So congratulations, Myke.  You rock! If you’d like to check out some of our interviews or discussions with Myke, you can do so here, here, here, and here.

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Call for Authors / Filmmakers / etc.: We Want You (Aug. to Dec. 2013)

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Once again, we’re putting out a call for authors with upcoming books, etc. for interviews and discussions.  If you have something dropping at some point between Aug. and Dec. 2013, please send an email to skiffyandfanty[at]gmail[dot]com letting us know what you’ve got going on (or have your publicist yell at us). What we’re looking for: New novels, short stories, video games, movies, or related books (science, some non-fiction, etc.). With rare exception, we prefer traditionally published books, whether from a small or large press or transferred over from a different format to the traditional model. Works that are either broadly defined as science fiction or fantasy (the “literary” is just as desired as “standard genre,” whatever that means) OR that are related or of interest to SF/F fans (biographies, science books, some history, and so on). The book must have a release date in either August, September, October, November, or December of this year.  We’ll put out another call for 2014 stuff later this year (things are changing for us). Books written by anyone.  We do our best to have as wide a range of authors as we can manage.  As such, we want authors who are women, men, people of color, Westerners, non-westerns, QUILTBAG, and anything else I can’t think of right now. Things we’d like to see more of: Space opera Cyberpunk YA SF/F New Weird or General Weird Fantasy Literary SF/F (like Jane Rodgers, Samuel R. Delany, Kurt Vonnegut, Joanna Russ, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Pynchon, John Crowley, etc. — yes, this category is flawed, so I hope the names will give you a sense of what I mean by “literary”) SF/F from perspectives other than the West Feminist SF Ninjas We have a limited number of interview slots, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do our best to include you in discussion episodes, etc. If you are not an author, please spread the word.  There are all kinds of things being published these days, so we don’t want to miss out on something great!

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