Quizzer's Revenge

We take to the air once again, and this time Phil wreaks his revenge on co-host Colin with a diabolical quiz! How will you fare when faced with questions from the Gollancz SF Masterworks quiz?

Also in this episode we review the short story that just won the Nebula Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, plus one of the leading runners-up.

And we do our usual run through the past, present and future of science fiction.

We hope you enjoy the show: listen below and let us know what you think. Or pick us up on your podcast app - scroll down to see links to all the podcast places that carry us.

Show Notes

The Gollancz SFMasterworks quiz is online here: https://www.gollancz.co.uk/science-fiction/2012/11/20/the-gollancz-sf-masterwork-quiz/

The list of Nebula Award winners for works published in 2020: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2020/

File 770's handy list of where to find all the Nebula free reads online: http://file770.com/where-to-find-the-2020-nebula-finalists-for-free-online/

The stories we review in this episode of the podcast:

https://www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-64a-open-house-on-haunted-hill-by-john-wiswell/

https://uncannymagazine.com/article/badass-moms-in-the-zombie-apocalypse/

Disney Plus explores Afrofuturism: https://www.tor.com/2020/12/11/disney-announces-animated-africanfuturism-sci-fi-series-iwaju/

Information on Samuel R. Delany's essay collection The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?42295

Alan Dean Foster's Sentenced to Prism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentenced_to_Prism

The case of Alan Dean Foster versus Disney: https://www.sfwa.org/2020/11/18/disney-must-pay/

Alan Dean Foster's website: https://www.alandeanfoster.com/version2.0/frameset.htm

The New Ray Bradbury Review, the journal which Phil will be editing when it goes entirely online: https://bradbury.iupui.edu/top-level-menu-folder/publications.php#rtab2

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