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Episode 28: Mastering the Dragons

Podcast |: Two Chairs Talking
Publisher |: Grigg & Middlemiss
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Books,; Fiction,; Movies,; Science Fiction,; Society & Culture,; TV & Film
Categories Via RSS |: Arts,; Books,; Fiction,; Science Fiction,; Society & Culture
Publication Date |: May 26, 2020
Episode Duration |: 01:22:00

Perry and David discuss the upcoming Hugo Awards, and David discusses with Rob Gerrand their mutual love of the work of Jack Vance.

Hugo Award nominees 2020 (34:18)
- Fiction categories (01:24)
- Novel category (00:28)
- The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (03:33)
- The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (04:26)
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire (03:11)
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (03:43)
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow (00:45)
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (00:48)
- Hugo Voting Package (00:31)
- The Deep by Rivers Solomon (01:01)
- To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers (01:23)
- Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom by Ted Chiang (01:23)
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark (01:09)
- In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire (01:10)
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (03:17)
David's Reading (08:23)
- The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel (04:04)
- Tom's Midnight Garden by Philipa Pearce (04:03)
Interview with Rob Gerrand (35:02)
- About Jack Vance (01:37)
- Rob's introduction to Vance (00:27)
- Tschai tetralogy (00:37)
- Demon Princes novels (04:30)
- David's introduction to Vance (00:29)
- The Dragon Masters (01:31)
- Demon Princes series (02:37)
- Bad Ronald (00:16)
- The View from Chickweed's Window (02:08)
- Big Planet (01:05)
- Emphyrio (00:23)
- The Blue World (00:45)
- Lyonnesse (04:14)
- Vance Integral Edition (05:38)
- Ebooks based on the VIE (01:53)
- The Languages of Pao (01:44)
- Lyonnesse (01:21)
- Vance's Crime Novels (01:46)
- SF Writers and crime writing (00:16)
- Frederick Brown (00:19)
- Madball~Frederick Brown (00:15)
- Night of the Jabberwock~Frederick Brown (00:03)
- The Screaming Mimi~Frederick Brown (00:16)
- The Fabulous Clipjoint~Frederick Brown (00:13)
Windup (02:41)

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Image based on the illustrations by Jack Gaughan to “The Dragon Masters” by Jack Vance, Galaxy August 1962.

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