Two Chairs Talking

Perry and David talk about a bunch of recent literary awards and then go on to discuss the books they've read recently, which cover the range from an entertaining children's book to a confronting Booker Prize winner. And in the middle, a lot of snow. Introduction (02:04) General News (13:49) Miles Franklin Award Winner 2022 (00:43) Booker Prize long list 2022 (01:54) British Fantasy Awards 2022 (0...

David and Perry complete their review of all of the fiction nominated for this year's Hugo Awards by discussing the Best Novel category. Then Perry and Lucy Sussex investigate the controversy around the novel which was withdrawn from this year's Miles Franklin Award. Introduction (03:03) General News (04:07) Arthur C. Clarke Award Short List (01:11) 2022 Women's Prize Winner: The Book of Form and...

Perry and David discuss in detail the novellas nominated for this year's Hugo Awards, and Perry talks to Rose Mitchell about the latest season of Star Trek: Picard. Introduction (02:52) General News (09:49) 2022 Locus Awards Winners (05:39) Miles Franklin Award Shortlist (01:47) Frank Moorhouse (02:10) Hugo Nominated Novellas 2022 (43:56) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (06:27) Across...

David and Perry discuss this year's nominees for the Short Story and Novelette categories of the Hugo Award, and Perry discusses the movie "Everthing Everywhere All at Once" with W. H. Chong. Introduction (02:42) General News (04:59) Nebula Awards (01:46) International Thriller Awards (01:37) Australian Book Design Awards (01:23) Hugo Nominees 2022 (53:57) Hugo Voting Packet (03:47) Short Stories...

Perry and David talk about their recent reading in the crime field, and spend some time on one particularly interesting crossover of the crime and SF genres. General News (07:21) Locus Awards (03:06) CWA Daggers Awards (02:10) Patricia McKillop (01:46) Crime Fiction (57:32) Those Who Perish by Emma Viskic (05:14) Better Off Dead by Lee and Andrew Child (14:39) The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan (...

David and Perry discuss recent awards and nominations, say a sad farewell to a friend, and talk about their recent reading, several items of which seem to deal with the loss of memory. General News (07:25) Hugo Nominees (03:57) Philip K. Dick Award (00:26) Compton Crook Award (00:28) 2022 Shadows Awards (00:58) BSFWA Awards (01:03) RIP Christine Ashby (02:30) What have we been reading? (01:13:48)...

Perry and David take the Hugo Time Machine back to the year 1968, when the shorter fiction was dominated by the Dangerous Visions anthology edited by Harlan Ellison and Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny won the Best Novel award. General News (10:07) Nebula Award Short List (03:14) Forthcoming Releases (02:29) Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter project (04:15) Hugo Time Machine 1968 (01:12:20) Best Short...

David and Perry plunge again into the murky depths of crime fiction, both in print and on television. General News (05:04) 2022 International Thriller Writers Awards (01:45) The Stella Prize 2022 longlist (01:22) BSFA Awards (01:44) Crime Fiction we've been reading (52:18) The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin (09:44) The Housemate by Sarah Bailey (05:35) Razorblade Tears by S. A....

Perry and David discuss their recent reading, in particular Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr and The Lost Daughter book and film. News (07:19) Locus Magazine recommended reading list (02:26) Dublin Literary Award longlist (01:30) Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Winners (03:13) What we've been reading (49:40) David on Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (03:46) Perry's take on Cloud Cuckoo Lan...

David and Perry talk about their favourite TV and movies they saw in 2021; and Perry talks at length with W. H. Chong about the new Dune movie. News (04:19) Philip K. Dick Award (01:34) 2022 Hugo Nominations open (01:20) Vale Bill Wright (01:21) Perry's Overview of TV and Movies 2021 (04:29) Perry's Best Movies 2021 (24:24) The Dig (05:04) Emma (03:52) Green Book (04:54) The Father (05:16) Dune Pa...

Perry and David talk about the best books they read during 2021 in a number of different categories. Hugo Winners (03:33) Site for Worldcon in 2023 (01:22) Our best books of 2021 (01:17:48) David's top SF of 2021 (02:54) Perry's top SF of 2021 (05:35) David's top fantasy of 2021 (04:35) Perry's top fantasy of 2021 (05:10) David's top crime of 2021 (02:19) Perry's top crime of 2021 (09:56) David's...

David and Perry discuss who invented science fiction and go on to talk about their recent reading, including intriguing crime novels and literary award winners. News (00:59) Taking a break (02:54) Who Invented Science Fiction? (05:34) What we've been reading (53:02) Laidlaw by William McIlvanney (13:04) Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep by Philip Reeve (06:05) A Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton (07...

Perry and David discuss recent news; David talks about the best book he's read all year; Perry reviews a magnificent book about whales; and interviews prominent fan Justin Ackroyd. News (08:49) Ditmar Awards (02:43) Amazon Best Books of 2021 (02:01) Announcement of interview on Fannish History (03:20) Presentation on Standard Ebooks (00:38) Letters of Comment (05:40) From Ben Sims (00:32) Audioboo...

David and Perry discuss a number of recent award winners and take the Hugo Time Machine zooming back to the year of 1967 A. Bertram Chandler Award (01:48) Booker Prize Winner (00:37) Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award (00:58) World Fantasy Awards (02:02) Readings Prize (00:38) Hugo Voting closes (00:25) Hugo Time Machine~1967 (01:00:58) Short Stories (17:09) “Mr. Jester” by Fred Saberhagen “Delusion...

Perry and David celebrate St. Crispin's Day by discussing recent awards, what they've been reading, both non-fiction and fiction, and summarising their thoughts about this year's Hugo Award nominees. News (04:36) Ursula K. Le Guin prize (01:08) Ditmar Awards (01:14) Prime Minister's Literary Awards (02:03) Critic vs Reviewer (02:46) What we've been reading (41:05) The Library by Stuart Kells (04:2...

David and Perry discuss -- and disagree about -- "The Bass Rock" and "Notes from the Burning Age" as well as two of the novels nominated for this year's Hugo Award. Saint Wiborada (01:21) Nobel Prize for Literature (07:32) The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld (14:13) Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North (11:18) Hugo Nominated Novels (26:14) Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (13:00) The City We Became by...

Perry and David talk about crime novels again, discussing books by Australian writers Garry Disher and Candice Fox, a classic by Dorothy L. Sayers, and others. Booker Prize Shortlist (02:15) US National Book Award (01:48) Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger (08:04) Hirchausen Series by Garry Disher (09:20) The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers (10:47) Whose Body? by Doroth...

David and Perry discuss recent news and go on to discuss their projects outside the podcast. They also talk about some nominees for this year's Hugo Best Novel award. Reading in bed (02:46) Recent news (06:09) Farewell Judith Hanna (02:45) Piranesi wins The Women's Prize (01:17) [Interview with Neil Gaiman] Centenary of the birth of Stanisław Lem (01:09) Seven hundred years since the death of Dant...

Perry and David discuss recent award winners, the nominees for the Short Story category of this year's Hugos, and the books they've been reading. Letters of Comment (04:06) Awards (07:38) Ned Kelly Award winners (03:38) Davitt Awards (01:04) Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (02:55) Hugo Awards - Short Story Nominees (26:32) A Guide for Working Breeds by Vina Jie-Min Prasad (02:41) The M...

David and Perry discuss the nominees in the Novelette category for this year's Hugo Awards, and go on to talk about their other recent reading. Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award (03:15) Davitt Award shortlist (02:58) Hugo Award Novelette Nominees (36:18) The Pill by Meg Elison (05:03) Helicopter Story by Isabell Fall (06:43) Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super by A. T. Greenblatt (0...

Perry and David discuss recent award shortlists and then go on to talk about television shows they have recently watched. Awards Season (14:14) Ned Kelly Awards (03:52) World Fantasy Awards (03:58) The Age Book of the Year Award (03:00) Booker Prize (02:52) What we've been watching on television (43:41) Absentia (05:59) Mare of Easttown (08:17) Broadchurch (06:35) Loki (06:52) Hanna (08:46) The Fa...

David and Perry discuss the nominees for Best Novella at this year's Hugo Awards, then talk about some more recent reading. Miles Franklin Award Winner: The Labyrinth (02:22) International Thriller Award: Blacktop Wasteland (00:27) Steel Dagger Award: When She Was Good (01:02) Hugo Award Novella nominees (33:08) Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey (03:47) Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark (06:33) Riot...

Perry and David nominate their best reads in the year so far and then go on to discuss their recent reading, ranging from children's books to a strange novel by a Japanese author Locus Awards (03:25) Arthur C. Clarke Award (01:37) Other Awards (01:03) David's top 5 books of the year so far (02:51) Clarissa Harlowe by Samuel Richardson (00:56) The Women in Black by Madeleine St John (00:10) The Hau...

David and Perry return to their life of crime and discuss several excellent crime novels by Australian authors and others. They jointly discuss "The Chase", the latest novel by Candice Fox. Hugo Voting Packet (02:42) Miles Franklin Award shortlist (03:00) ALS Gold Medal (02:36) The Dragon Man by Garry Disher (07:51) The Wife and the Widow by Christian White (08:32) Bitter Wash Road by Garry Disher...

Perry and David discuss science fiction fandom and their introduction to it via amateur magazine publishing. Perry interviews Rose Mitchell, the Fan Guest of Honour at CoNZealand, the 2020 Worldcon. Nebula Awards 2021 (07:01) Best Novel: Network Effect by Martha Wells (00:46) Best Novella: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (00:59) Best Novelette: “Two Truths and a Lie”, Sarah Pinsker (00:19) Best Short...