Glitchy Pancakes

Welcome back! It's our first episode of the year, and having lost our minds long ago in the Before Times of 2020, we attempt to stay coherent as we discuss what's going on in fandom. We talk about the release of Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, the upcoming Black Panther tv series helmed by Ryan Coogler, the Locus recommended reading list, updates on the convention scene, explain the Hugo Award nomination process, and more. We do NOT discuss WandaVision. Yet. Enjoy!

LINKS:

Locus Recommended Reading List (2020): https://locusmag.com/2021/02/2020-locus-recommended-reading-list/

Hugo Award Nomination info & website: http://www.thehugoawards.org/

Subscribe to Glitchy Pancakes on your favorite podcast app, and please leave a review there if you like what we're doing. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook @GlitchyPancakes. Email questions or comments to [email protected], and thanks for listening!

Welcome back! It's our first episode of the year, and having lost our minds long ago in the Before Times of 2020, we attempt to stay coherent as we discuss what's going on in fandom. We talk about the release of Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda, the upcoming Black Panther tv series helmed by Ryan Coogler, the Locus recommended reading list, updates on the convention scene, explain the Hugo Award nomination process, and more. We do NOT discuss WandaVision. Yet. Enjoy!

LINKS:

Locus Recommended Reading List (2020): https://locusmag.com/2021/02/2020-locus-recommended-reading-list/

Hugo Award Nomination info & website: http://www.thehugoawards.org/

Subscribe to Glitchy Pancakes on your favorite podcast app, and please leave a review there if you like what we're doing. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook @GlitchyPancakes. Email questions or comments to [email protected], and thanks for listening!

This week, we took a few minutes to thank everyone who has helped us make the back half of 2020 better than we'd hoped. We launched Glitchy Pancakes on June 19 of this year with an episode on Protest & Rebellion in SF/F, featuring the amazing Sheree Renée Thomas. From then until now, we've published 30 episodes full of fun and illuminating conversations about all aspects of SF/F fandom with a slate of absolutely fantastic guests, and we hope you've all gotten something good out of listening. We greatly appreciate every guest who gave us a slice of their time, as well as all the listeners who have kept us going. We'll be back in January serving up more fresh hot stacks of Glitchy Pancakes. Happy New Year everybody! Let's make it the best one yet!

Subscribe to Glitchy Pancakes on your favorite podcast app, and please leave a review if you like what we're doing. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook @GlitchyPancakes. Email questions or comments to [email protected], and thanks for listening!

This week, we took a few minutes to thank everyone who has helped us make the back half of 2020 better than we'd hoped. We launched Glitchy Pancakes on June 19 of this year with an episode on Protest & Rebellion in SF/F, featuring the amazing Sheree Renée Thomas. From then until now, we've published 30 episodes full of fun and illuminating conversations about all aspects of SF/F fandom with a slate of absolutely fantastic guests, and we hope you've all gotten something good out of listening. We greatly appreciate every guest who gave us a slice of their time, as well as all the listeners who have kept us going. We'll be back in January serving up more fresh hot stacks of Glitchy Pancakes. Happy New Year everybody! Let's make it the best one yet!

Subscribe to Glitchy Pancakes on your favorite podcast app, and please leave a review if you like what we're doing. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook @GlitchyPancakes. Email questions or comments to [email protected], and thanks for listening!

Some say there are certain works & authors in SF/F/H that one Must Read in order to appreciate or understand the genres. But with all the amazing new work coming out from new voices around the world, are the so-called "canonical" works even relevant anymore? How can fans navigate the world of speculative fiction in a way that makes it meaningful (and let's not forget FUN) for them? We get into it with two fantastic guests: 2019 Astounding Award winner & author of Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng, and Georgia Tech Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies & author of The Future is Female, Dr. Lisa Yaszek. Heads up: there may be some discussion of gross '70s Jell-O molds.

Jeannette Ng: Website and UNDER THE PENDULUM SUN

Dr. Lisa Yaszek: Website & Amazon author page

Octavia Butler on Devil Girls from Mars:
https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/transcript-devil-girl-mars-why-i-write-science-fiction-octavia-butler-1998

Hugo Gernsback and Amazing Stories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Stories

Lost Transmissions:
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Transmissions-History-Science-Fiction/dp/1419734652

Jeanette Ng’s Astounding Award Acceptance Speech: https://medium.com/@nettlefish/john-w-campbell-for-whom-this-award-was-named-was-a-fascist-f693323d3293

We Have Always Fought
http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-by-kameron-hurley/

Big Book of Science Fiction (edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer):
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Science-Fiction/dp/1101910097

Milton Davis:
https://www.mvmediaatl.com/

Balogun Ojetade:
https://chroniclesofharriet.com/

Margaret Cavendish:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/one-of-the-earliest-science-fiction-books-was-written-in-the-1600s-by-a-duchess

The Last Man by Mary Shelley:
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Wordsworth-Classics/dp/1840224037

Brian Aldiss on Mary Shelley:
https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/brian-w-aldiss/

Subscribe to Glitchy Pancakes on your favorite podcast app, and please leave a review if you like what we're doing. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook @GlitchyPancakes. Email questions or comments to [email protected], and thanks for listening!

Some say there are certain works & authors in SF/F/H that one Must Read in order to appreciate or understand the genres. But with all the amazing new work coming out from new voices around the world, are the so-called "canonical" works even relevant anymore? How can fans navigate the world of speculative fiction in a way that makes it meaningful (and let's not forget FUN) for them? We get into it with two fantastic guests: 2019 Astounding Award winner & author of Under the Pendulum Sun, Jeannette Ng, and Georgia Tech Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies & author of The Future is Female, Dr. Lisa Yaszek. Heads up: there may be some discussion of gross '70s Jell-O molds.

Jeannette Ng: Website and UNDER THE PENDULUM SUN

Dr. Lisa Yaszek: Website & Amazon author page

Octavia Butler on Devil Girls from Mars:
https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/transcript-devil-girl-mars-why-i-write-science-fiction-octavia-butler-1998

Hugo Gernsback and Amazing Stories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing_Stories

Lost Transmissions:
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Transmissions-History-Science-Fiction/dp/1419734652

Jeanette Ng’s Astounding Award Acceptance Speech: https://medium.com/@nettlefish/john-w-campbell-for-whom-this-award-was-named-was-a-fascist-f693323d3293

We Have Always Fought
http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-by-kameron-hurley/

Big Book of Science Fiction (edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer):
https://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Science-Fiction/dp/1101910097

Milton Davis:
https://www.mvmediaatl.com/

Balogun Ojetade:
https://chroniclesofharriet.com/

Margaret Cavendish:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/one-of-the-earliest-science-fiction-books-was-written-in-the-1600s-by-a-duchess

The Last Man by Mary Shelley:
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Man-Wordsworth-Classics/dp/1840224037

Brian Aldiss on Mary Shelley:
https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2008/12/04/brian-w-aldiss/

Subscribe to Glitchy Pancakes on your favorite podcast app, and please leave a review if you like what we're doing. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook @GlitchyPancakes. Email questions or comments to [email protected], and thanks for listening!

"Own Voices" fiction means stories written BY members of the marginalized groups and cultures they depict, instead of written by people from outside those groups. People deserve to tell their OWN stories instead of having others take up that space and write about them, so today we get into what needs to happen and why. We're joined by two amazing author/editors: Sheree Renée Thomas (World Fantasy Award-winning editor, author, Marvel writer, and new Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) and K. Tempest Bradford (author, editor, writing teacher at Writing the Other, podcaster, and Vice Chair of the board of the Carl Brandon Society) for a deep dive into Own Voices fiction and why it's so important.

Sheree Renée Thomas: Website and Twitter (@blackpotmojo)
Books: NINE BAR BLUES, DARK MATTER & DARK MATTER: READING THE BONES, & pre-order BLACK PANTHER: TALES OF WAKANDA
Visit & subscribe to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

K. Tempest Bradford: Website and Twitter (@tinytempest)
Fiction & Non-Fiction Bibliography: http://tempest.fluidartist.com/bibliography/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ktempestbradford
Writing the Other writing classes
The Carl Brandon Society's website

Subscribe to Glitchy Pancakes on your favorite podcast app, and please leave a review if you like what we're doing. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook @GlitchyPancakes. Email questions or comments to [email protected], and thanks for listening!

"Own Voices" fiction means stories written BY members of the marginalized groups and cultures they depict, instead of written by people from outside those groups. People deserve to tell their OWN stories instead of having others take up that space and write about them, so today we get into what needs to happen and why. We're joined by two amazing author/editors: Sheree Renée Thomas (World Fantasy Award-winning editor, author, Marvel writer, and new Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) and K. Tempest Bradford (author, editor, writing teacher at Writing the Other, podcaster, and Vice Chair of the board of the Carl Brandon Society) for a deep dive into Own Voices fiction and why it's so important.

Sheree Renée Thomas: Website and Twitter (@blackpotmojo)
Books: NINE BAR BLUES, DARK MATTER & DARK MATTER: READING THE BONES, & pre-order BLACK PANTHER: TALES OF WAKANDA
Visit & subscribe to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

K. Tempest Bradford: Website and Twitter (@tinytempest)
Fiction & Non-Fiction Bibliography: http://tempest.fluidartist.com/bibliography/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ktempestbradford
Writing the Other writing classes
The Carl Brandon Society's website

Subscribe to Glitchy Pancakes on your favorite podcast app, and please leave a review if you like what we're doing. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook @GlitchyPancakes. Email questions or comments to [email protected], and thanks for listening!

Swing and a miss, Audible! After last week's episode, the audiobook giant emailed authors & publishers with a "solution" to their policy of not paying creators. It was... not good. We talk with author & Mocha Memoirs Press publisher Nicole Givens Kurtz about why SO MUCH MORE needs to be done to make publishing equitable and ethical. And while we're at it, we get into the recently announced purchase of Simon & Schuster by Penguin/Random House (taking the "Big 5" publishing houses down to the Big 4), and why this is a raw deal for readers as well as writers, agents. and publishers. On a positive note, congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson on being named SFWA's 37th Grandmaster! See, good stuff happens too, sometimes...

NICOLE GIVENS KURTZ: https://nicolegivenskurtz.net/ & @NicoleGKurtz on Twitter

MOCHA MEMOIRS PRESS: https://mochamemoirspress.com/ & @MochaMemoirs on Twitter

Author Susan May's blog post about AudibleGate 2

Washington Post article about the Penguin/Random House + Simon & Schuster purchase

Petition from Writer’s Guild: https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/sign-our-letter-and-tell-audible-to-stop-charging-authors-for-returns

Subscribe to Glitchy Pancakes on your favorite podcast app, and please leave a review if you like what we're doing. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook @GlitchyPancakes. Email questions or comments to [email protected], and thanks for listening!

Swing and a miss, Audible! After last week's episode, the audiobook giant emailed authors & publishers with a "solution" to their policy of not paying creators. It was... not good. We talk with author & Mocha Memoirs Press publisher Nicole Givens Kurtz about why SO MUCH MORE needs to be done to make publishing equitable and ethical. And while we're at it, we get into the recently announced purchase of Simon & Schuster by Penguin/Random House (taking the "Big 5" publishing houses down to the Big 4), and why this is a raw deal for readers as well as writers, agents. and publishers. On a positive note, congratulations to Nalo Hopkinson on being named SFWA's 37th Grandmaster! See, good stuff happens too, sometimes...

NICOLE GIVENS KURTZ: https://nicolegivenskurtz.net/ & @NicoleGKurtz on Twitter

MOCHA MEMOIRS PRESS: https://mochamemoirspress.com/ & @MochaMemoirs on Twitter

Author Susan May's blog post about AudibleGate 2

Washington Post article about the Penguin/Random House + Simon & Schuster purchase

Petition from Writer’s Guild: https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/sign-our-letter-and-tell-audible-to-stop-charging-authors-for-returns

Subscribe to Glitchy Pancakes on your favorite podcast app, and please leave a review if you like what we're doing. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook @GlitchyPancakes. Email questions or comments to [email protected], and thanks for listening!