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Trivia Travails. Or, It's a Con! (episode 59)

Join us for a trivia quiz bonanza!

Making a return visit to the pod is Colin's co-host from another podcast, Seth Heasley, who is here to administer a deadly science fictional quiz! Phil is already quaking in his sci-fi Moon boots.

At the time of recording, Colin and Seth had just returned from this year's World Science Fiction Convention, held in Seattle. So in this episode, they give their behind-the-scenes perspectives of what went on at the con: Colin as a volunteer camera operator and video director, and Seth as a Hugo Award nominee and panel moderator.

Among the items discussed in today's show:

  • The 2025 Hugo Awards
  • The 1944 film version of J.B.Priestley's They Came to a City
  • The perennially meaningful graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman
  • The Ray Bradbury Center - which houses the papers, artefacts and office of the famous writer (in Indianapolis) - is raising funds to move into expanded, future-proof (not to mention waterproof) accommodation
  • Adrian Tchaikovksy's Hugo runner-up novel, Alien Clay
  • DC Comics' Absolute series, in which fundamental premises are altered to allow "what-if" speculation 
  • Vince Gilligan's forthcoming TV series Pluribus
  • Oregon's oldest literary and creative convention, OryCon, returns to Portland in October
  • Darryl Cunningham's Elon Musk: an American Oligarch has a publisher of an English-language edition
  • Colin & Seth (& James) co-host Take Me To Your Reader, which explores adapted science fiction
  • Seth hosts the Hugo-nominated Hugos There 

 

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