Aug 31, 2012

WSFA Honours Aussie Authors

The Washington Science Fiction Association has honoured two Aussie authors in their list of Finalists for  the 2012 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction:

“A Militant Peace” by David Klecha and Tobias S. Buckell, published in Clarkesworld Magazine, edited by Neil Clarke, November 2011.

“Flowers in the Shadow of the Garden” by Joanne Anderton in Hope, edited by Sasha Beattie, published by Kayelle Press, October 2011.

“Lessons from a Clockwork Queen” by Megan Arkenberg, published in Fantasy Magazine, edited by John Joseph Adams, September 2011.

“Sauerkraut Station” by Ferrett Steinmetz, published in GigaNotoSaurus, edited by Ann Leckie, November 2011.

“The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees” by Lily Yu, published in Clarkesworld Magazine, edited by Neil Clarke, April 2011.

“The Patrician” by Tansy Rayner Roberts in Love and Romanpunk, edited by Alisa Krasnostein, published by Twelfth Planet Press, May 2011.

“What Ho, Automaton!” by Chris Dolley, in Shadow Conspiracy, Volume II., edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, published by Book View Cafe, February 2011.

“Yesterday’s Taste” by Lawrence M. Schoen in Transtories, edited by Colin Harvey and published by Aeon Press, October 2011.

The winner will be announced in early October

So congrats Tansy and Jo, worth recipients if my reading is anything to go by

Galactic Suburbia Number 67

Galactic-Suburbia-CakeThe Galactic Suburbanites are at it again with a fun filled episode:
 
In which [they] talk trolling, internet pile-ons and Twittiquette (it's a word, right?) as well as Weird Tales, Analog, heavy metal, straight white YA dystopias and (this may shock you) Joanna Russ.
They mention the Last Short Story podcast which has got me excited about short fiction in a way that the written form of coverage didn’t
 
You can download here or play below.
 
 
 

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Basic Android App for Australian Specfic Podcasts

So I am playing around again on Appsgeyser which allows you to create simple Android Apps.  I have collected 4 of Australia’s Speculative Fiction Podcast feeds and placed them into the app generator.  The end result is an android app that you can download so that you can easily access the feeds of the following podcasts.

  • Coode Street
  • Galactic Suburbia
  • Galactic Chat
  • The Writer and The Critic

Think of it like a uber-bookmark that allows you to switch between webpages via tabs rather than having to save each as a separate book mark and go to their respective webpages.

You can download via this link or scan the  QR code below.

Cool if you listen to podcasts via a wifi enabled tablet or smartphone.

 

Let me know how you go.


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