192. Australian Speculative Fiction w/ Tansy Rayner Roberts & Marianne de Pierres (the World SF Tour)

The World SF Tour continues with our discussion of Australian speculative fiction with Tansy Rayner Roberts (author and Hugo Award winner for Best Fan Writer) and Marianne de Pierres (author and Aurealis Award winner for Best Novel)

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Here’s the episode (show notes are below):

Episode 192 — Download (MP3)

Show Notes:

Tansy’s Website
- Tansy’s latest release is called Ink Black Magic with Fablecroft, funny fantasy based around comic book heroes and magic going wrong. She also writes crime with Twelfth Planet Press under the name Livia Day and is part of the Galactic Suburbia podcast.
Marianne’s Website
- Marianne’s Angry Robot Book is coming out in May. It’s called Peacemaker. She also writes crime under the name Marianne Delacourt. Her YA trilogy, The Night Creatures, and the Escape Club (a YA zine w/ book reviews and other features for teens — plus some recipes!) can be found here.
Tansy’s Twitter
Marianne’s Twitter

Here are all the lovely authors and things mentioned during this episode (thanks to Julia for compiling it all; you win the Internet for that!):

The Madigal Beverly Macdonald
Tony Shillitoe
1995 Harper Voyager imprint started publishing AUS specfic
Sara Douglass
Wombats! http://www.wimp.com/wombatman/
Shaun Tan
Richard Harland
Jo Anderton
Trent Jamieson
Glenda Larke (selling better overseas, has racial diversity)
Kate Forsyth –Bitter Greens is a Rapunzel historical fantasy.
Jennifer Fallon
Karen Miller
Sean Williams (Very big profile in Australia, and writes things that relate to the landscape of South Australia)
Garth Nix
Trudy Canavan
Margo Lanagan (Has international acclaim for bigger novels, but also works with small presses, and her collection in the Twelve Planets series is very Australian.)
Justine Larbalestier
Small presses doing excellent things:
Fablecroft (Tehani Wessely) — Tansy is editing a book with Fablecroft called Angry Ladies of History (Kickstarter coming in March)
Twelfth Planet Press (Alisa Krasnostein) — Julia is co-editing an anthology of diverse YA with Alisa. Kaleidoscope is set to launch at WorldCon.
Coeur de Lion (Keith Stevenson) – has a new e-magazine ‘Dimension6’ which will launch on April 4 and which will be completely free and DRM free.
Satalyte Publishing (Stephen Ormsby) — Adam Browne: ‘Other Stories’ released in February, one to watch out for.
Ticonderoga (Russell B. Farr) — Jason Fischer’s ‘Everything is a Graveyard’ out now.
ClanDestine (Lindy Cameron) — Brings out old works that have gone out of print out of print (like Kerry Greenwood’s Delphic Women novels – her “Medea” is the one Tansy particularly loves) as well as new voices.
Rowena Cory Daniells – fantasy writer with Solaris
NatCon roving convention for all of Australia
Ambelin Kwaymullina (indigenous writer of YA books)
Ben Peek has been an indie writer. Black Sheep dealt heavily with racial themes. He has a new fantasy series coming out with Tor this year, the Godless.
Karen Healey (NZ author, but has written stuff set in Australia and has lots of complex casts with various diverse elements)
Aurealis Awards — premier SF awards in Australia started small and grew. Juried by industry professionals. Judging panel for each category, and categories are very specific (short story and novel in each of SF/Fantay/Horror, etc.)
NatCon Associated Awards — Ditmars –community voted awards categories are broader (best novel covers any speculative type of book, for instance)
Chandler Award (for outstanding achievement in Australian Speculative Fiction)
William Atheling Jr. Award for criticism and/or review, which is for a specific work.
Cat Sparks (started with art, became small press publisher, then moved to professional writing)

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