Podcast appearances and mentions of Margo Lanagan

For our first episode of 2025, we touch upon novels we've been reading for the new year, including Charles Stross's 13th Laundry novel/collection A Conventional Boy and Ray Nayler's Where the Axe is Buried, as well as the frustrations of reading books on deadlines—as opposed to wallowing in them at leisure, and some non-SF writers we like. Gary then mentions how hard it is to gain perspective on novels of the past year, and suggests looking instead at important books of the entire past quarter-century from the perspective of 2025.  We only got partway through his list, which included novels by Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Octavia Butler, M. John Harrison, Margaret Atwood, Susanna Clarke, Gene Wolfe, Cixin Liu, and Robert Charles Wilson; collections by Kelly Link, Margo Lanagan, and Jeff Ford; anthologies by Sheree R. Thomas and Gardner Dozois—the last of which leads to a discussion of the durability of space opera as a defining SF theme. Plenty of stuff to argue with this week!

For our first episode of 2025, we touch upon novels we've been reading for the new year, including Charles Stross's 13th Laundry novel/collection A Conventional Boy and Ray Nayler's Where the Axe is Buried, as well as the frustrations of reading books on deadlines—as opposed to wallowing in them at leisure, and some non-SF writers we like. Gary then mentions how hard it is to gain perspective on novels of the past year, and suggests looking instead at important books of the entire past quarter-century from the perspective of 2025.  We only got partway through his list, which included novels by Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Octavia Butler, M. John Harrison, Margaret Atwood, Susanna Clarke, Gene Wolfe, Cixin Liu, and Robert Charles Wilson; collections by Kelly Link, Margo Lanagan, and Jeff Ford; anthologies by Sheree R. Thomas and Gardner Dozois—the last of which leads to a discussion of the durability of space opera as a defining SF theme. Plenty of stuff to argue with this week!

In this episode Kate speaks with internationally acclaimed Australian author, Margo Lanagan about her writing career in which she has written a formidable number of award winning titles spanning children's lit, YA, fantasy, realism and speculative fiction and including the short story collection Black Juice, the novel Tender Morsels and the NYT bestselling Zeroes trilogy with Scott Westerfeld and Deborah Biancotti. Margo has been a judge of the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the Australian–Vogel's Literary Award. She served on the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts for three years. She has been an instructor at six residential Clarion workshops, in Brisbane, Seattle and (with Maureen F. McHugh) San Diego. She has also conducted numerous creative writing workshops both for school groups and for adult writers. In this conversation Lanagan discusses playing with language, the hierarchy of lit stripes, scrapbooking, what to do when a novel falls apart in your hands and so much more. Check out the full transcript of the interview and show notes for this episode on our website www.thefirsttimepodcast.com or get in touch via Twitter (@thefirsttimepod) or Instagram (@thefirsttimepod). Don't forget you can support us and the making of Season Five via our Patreon page. Thanks for joining us!

In this episode, James throws some curly questions at Ally Burnham (screenwriter and WestWords' creative producer), Margo Lanagan (multi-award winning author) and Michael Campbell (biographer and WestWords' executive director. *** DISCLAIMER: Views expressed by guests of WestWords are not necessarily those of the WestWords organisation. ***

Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions... Escaping Berlin - historical action from Brent Monahan Going Back - fan fiction from Mark Punter The Short Story of Andrew and Garry - novel from Konrad Mink Staring at the Sun - thriller, near-science fiction, adult from Vivienne Glance Chris & Moose's Waggy Walk - humorous travel from Chris McQuillan Peter Cox's special guests today are Kaylie Finn and Kevin Brooke! Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/QUnwl8evNNM Kaylie Finn's book recommendation is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Library-Novel-Matt-Haig-ebook/dp/B085BVSXS9 Kevin Brooke's book recommendation is "Tender Morsels" by Margo Lanagan. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Tender-Morsels-Margo-Lanagan/dp/0375843051 Make Your Pop-Up Submission here! Watch Pop-Ups on YouTube Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.

Featured on today's Pop-Up Submissions... Escaping Berlin - historical action from Brent Monahan Going Back - fan fiction from Mark Punter The Short Story of Andrew and Garry - novel from Konrad Mink Staring at the Sun - thriller, near-science fiction, adult from Vivienne Glance Chris & Moose's Waggy Walk - humorous travel from Chris McQuillan Peter Cox's special guests today are Kaylie Finn and Kevin Brooke! Watch this show on YouTube https://youtu.be/QUnwl8evNNM Kaylie Finn's book recommendation is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Midnight-Library-Novel-Matt-Haig-ebook/dp/B085BVSXS9 Kevin Brooke's book recommendation is "Tender Morsels" by Margo Lanagan. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Tender-Morsels-Margo-Lanagan/dp/0375843051 Make Your Pop-Up Submission here! Watch Pop-Ups on YouTube Litopia is the net's oldest and best community for writers. For two decades, we've brought writers together from all over the globe. We serve each and every member's needs... social, business, professional and beyond. If you're serious about your writing, do join us.

Today we're talking about a bizarre piece of weird fiction, one of the most popular ones from the last twenty years. Not gory, not grisly exactly, but strange and unsettling-- "Singing My Sister Down", by Margo Lanagan. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This month, we will be reading five tales of terror (one each Tuesday and Wednesday, until the end of October), and in this mini-sode we introduce them so you can read along, should you so perspire, er, desire. They include "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe, "The Packerhaus Method" by Gene Wolfe, "The Girl with Hungry Eyes" by Fritz Leiber, "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan, and "When the Fleet was in at Mobile" by Patricia Highsmith. NO HALLOWEEN PUNS ALLOWED! Music: "Signs In The Fields" by Cinematicwaves, licensed by a Creative Commons 3.0 license.★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

It's been quiet here at Coode Street, of late. Jonathan has been working on books and recommended reading lists, and Gary has been travelling. Just two weeks ago Gary travelled to sunny Los Angeles, California to attend the 2019 World Fantasy Convention. During the weekend Gary was busy, interviewing guest of honour Margo Lanagan, doing some panels, and seeing friends. He did take a moment to sit down with newly minted World Fantasy Award Lifetime Achievement recipient Jack Zipes to discuss fantasy, fairy tales, and more.  As always, our thanks to Jack for taking the time to join us and my thanks to Gary for this special shorter episode of Coode Street.

It's been quiet here at Coode Street, of late. Jonathan has been working on books and recommended reading lists, and Gary has been travelling. Just two weeks ago Gary travelled to sunny Los Angeles, California to attend the 2019 World Fantasy Convention. During the weekend Gary was busy, interviewing guest of honour Margo Lanagan, doing some panels, and seeing friends. He did take a moment to sit down with Margo Lanagan, Eileen Gunn, and Ellen Klages - all long-time friends of the podcast - to discuss fantasy, fairy tales, and more.  As always, our thanks to Margo, Eileen and Ellen for taking the time to join us and my thanks to Gary for this special shorter episode of Coode Street.

Plus Michael Robotham's latest crime novel and the Cost of Art series.

On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about character deaths in fiction. In other words: MURDERRRRRRRRR. The tentpoles this week are "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" by Synecdochic, the first Hunger Games movie, and "Singing My Sister Down" by Margo Lanagan. (Warning: Spoilers!)   What We’ve Been Reading A Useful Woman by Darcie WildeWe Rule the Night by Claire BartlettRuin of Kings by Jenn Lyons Other Stuff We Mentioned Rebecca Kuang’s The Poppy WarBlack Juice by Margo LanaganBLEACHBattle RoyaleStargate AtlantisDeep SurvivalNirvana in FireKilljoysSpooksBlack SailsThe Writing Excuses podcastBuffy the Vampire SlayerThe 100   For Next Time: Due to the fact that the audio for the witches episode was HAUNTED, we are swapping the topics for Episodes 26 and 27. Despite what we said in the audio of this episode, next week's theme will therefore be about having sex with aliens and monsters, and the tentpole for that episode is the movie "The Shape of Water". Transcription: The transcript of this episode is available here. The highest of fives to our scribes this week: Neharika, Millie, and Kelly!

On this Summer Edition of the Bookshelf, Kate hears about the long history of dog-earing books and discovers it wasn't an abhorred practice until the nineteenth century, and Cassie and Kate revisit Irvine Welsh's Dead Men's Trousers and Audrey Schulman's Theory of Bastards with Stuart Coupe, Margo Lanagan and Felicity Castagna

Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh with novels about animals, sex and research (and a few other things)

We talk a little bit about Memojis, Detroit: Being Human and how Serena is going to be making a brief appearance in an audio drama. Then we delve into Pierce Brown's Red Rising. Red Rising Amazon link Show links Hell of a Pilot: X-Wing Podcast Detroit: Become Human Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Next Show Topic Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah Biancotti Find us here on our website: www.triggerpointfm.com/21 on Twitter: @TriggerPointFM on Email: TriggerPointFM@gmail.com

This week's episode ranges from a discussion about the growing importance of novellas and their advantages both for readers and writers, the difficult question of which story you might pick to introduce a new reader to a favourite author, the importance of distinctive voices in both short fictions and novels, the upcoming 87th birthday of the great Gene Wolfe, and James Cameron's new TV documentary on SF, which features appearance from several SF writers and critics, including Gary. Then Jonathan springs on Gary the question of what his favourite book is, so Gary tossed it right back to Jonathan. We both came up with answers that date back to our respective childhoods. In addition to Gene Wolfe, some of the authors mentioned include R.A. Lafferty, Ted Chiang, Margo Lanagan, Kelly Link, Robert A. Heinlein, T.H. White, Sam J. Miller, Kate Wilhelm, Ursula Le Guin, Andy Duncan, Howard Waldrop, Catherynne Valente, Jeffrey Ford, Lavie Tidhar, John Varley, James Patrick Kelly, Alec Nevala-Lee, and Joseph Heller. In other words, another ramble.

WHAT’S NEW ON THE INTERNET/WHAT DO WE CARE ABOUT THIS WEEK? Julian May died No more Writer and the Critic: announcement Feminist Poltergeist podcast, from Ellenbutnotdegeneres: Carmilla movie out OUR DISCUSSION: Leisure, freelancing/part-time hours and guilt. CULTURE CONSUMED: Alisa: Otherlife; Stranger Things S2; The Trauma Cleaner, Sarah Krasnostein; Pop Culture Happy Hour; Friends Like These Tansy: Podcasts: Uncanny 14b (To Budapest with Love by Theodora Goss & Some Cupids Kill with Arrows by Tansy; Kameron Hurley’s Get To Work Hurley #6 (how to write when overwhelmed by the world); Fangirl Happy Hour #100 (On Brand) & #101 (Howl’s Moving Castle); Thor Ragnarok - ABC Radio interview Alex: Nexus, Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, Deborah Biancotti; Bold as Love sequence, Gwyneth Jones; Lord of the Rings, Glitch Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon - which now includes access to the ever so exclusive GS Slack - and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

After last week's super-serious topic of teen anxiety, I thought we'd take a lighter turn this week. For Episode 11, we are talking about superheroes. This episode was partially inspired by my family's obsession with the TV series The Flash. Though I've never actually sat down to watch it, I know exactly what's going on because it seems it is ALWAYS playing on Sundays at my house. The hubs and my boys LOVE The Flash, and thought they do watch other superhero series, it seems The Flash is the go-to favorite each week.   FIND ME AT: MrsReaderPants blog FaceBook Twitter Pinterest Goodreads   TITLES DISCUSSED IN THIS PODCAST: The Geek's Guide to Unrequited Love by Sarvenaz Tash School for Sidekicks by Kelly McCullough Sidekicked by John David Anderson Hero by Mike Lupica Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee Dreadnought by April Daniels Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti Powerless by Tera Lynn Childs and Traci Deebs Powerless by Matthew Cody The Mighty Odds by Amy Ignatow V is for Villain by Peter Moore MUSIC CREDIT: "Let It Be Christmas" by Nicolai Heidlas. Licensed under Creative Commons, 2016.      

The story is unpublished, but is set in the same world as ‘Sea-Hearts’ novella in X6: a novellanthology  (coeur de lion publishing) and Sea Hearts (Allen and Unwin). Sydney-based writer Margo Langan was predominantly known for writing YA short fiction…

In which we discuss stories from Margo Lanagan and Karen Russell, along with, among other things, really real girls, Shirley Jackson, P.G. Wodehouse, and octothorpes.

Coming Up: Good Evening: 00:00 Fiction: The Goosle by Margo Lanagan 0:05:47 Main Fiction: What Nature Abhors by Mark Morris 0:39:05 District of Wonders 1:10:47 Pleasant Dreams 1:11:56 Stories narrated by Ritchie Smith See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In collaboration with Twelfth Planet Press and recorded live at the beautiful Embiggen Books in Melbourne, The Writer and the Critic is delighted to present a special podcast dedicated to the critically acclaimed Twelve Planets series of short story collections. Join host Ian Mond as he interviews Twelve Planet authors Deborah Biancotti, Narrelle M. Harris, Deborah Kalin, Margo Lanagan, Rosaleen Love, Kirstyn McDermott, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Lucy Sussex and Kaaron Warren, along with publisher Alisa Krasnostein. It's a fun, informal conversation which -- and this is how you know it's not an official Writer and Critic episode -- goes for less than 50 minutes! You're welcome. The Twelve Planets are twelve boutique collections by some of Australia's finest short story writers. Varied across genre and style, each collection will offer four short stories and a unique glimpse into worlds fashioned by some of our favourite storytellers. Each author has taken the brief of 4 stories and up to 40 000 words in their own direction. Some are quartet suites of linked stories. Others are tasters of the range and style of the writer. Each release will bring something unexpected to our subscriber's mailboxes.

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This month on The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond spend some time discussing the results of the recently announced Aurealis Awards. Ian valiantly attempts to pry a little out-of-school talk from Kirstyn, who convened the Horror judging panel, but Kirstyn just as valiantly resists the spilling of any beans. Well, mostly. You know how persistent Mondy can be. And from the Department of Filthy Lucre, Kirstyn and Ian are pleased to announce the opening of a brand spanking new Writer and Critic Zazzle Store from which their loyal listeners can purchase all kinds of yummy merch! Okay, there's just one design available right now, but it's very classy. Inspired by last episode's conversation about stick figures, which was in turn inspired by listener feedback from Mark Webb, Kirstyn has designed a female stick figure logo which is now splashed across shirts, badges, stickers, mugs and a whole heap of other swag. Why is the stick figure female? The more important question is, why is it male? Go on, you know you want one. Around the 26:20 mark, discussion turns to the first of the two books for the podcast, Bad Power by Deborah Biancotti, which Ian recommended. Ishtar, an anthology from Gilgamesh Press which includes a novella by Deb, is tangentially mentioned and garners a bonus mini-review from Kirstyn. At 45:00 they switch over to Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (also known as The Brides of Rollrock Island outside of Australia), which was Kirstyn's pick. Ian mentions this review of the book by Abigail Nussbaum and, for listeners wanting to know more about the writing of the novel, Kirstyn suggests watching this interview with Margo. Sea Hearts was expanded from a highly acclaimed novella of the same name, which can be found in the X6 anthology from Coeur de Lion Publishing. If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please check back in at 1:25:10 for final remarks and some exciting -- and exhausting! -- announcements about future episodes. Kirstyn and Ian would also like to thank the wonderful Charles Tan for creating a Pinterest board of all the books they have review on the podcast so far. There's really quite a lot of them! Next month, The Writer and the Critic hits the road once more to record its second live podcast in front of an audience at the Continuum 8: the National Science Fiction convention in Melbourne. Their very, very special guests will be Alison Goodman and Kelly Link, who have recommended The Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey and The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater respectively. (Ian and Kirstyn have wisely decided not to choose books of their own because, well, four people talking about four books in less than two hours would be a frantic kind of madness.) Read ahead and join in the fun!

On this episode of The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond spend a little time talking about gender and reading in response to feedback received from one of their lovely listeners. Be warned, there may be some unqualified generalisations scattered about and there is definitely some drawing of disturbing stick figures. Kirstyn apologies for her barely suppressed laughter and also for the fact that listeners cannot see the horrified expressions on Ian's face -- or the disturbing stick figure -- that inspired said laughter. She trusts that listeners can use their imagination. Around the 19:20 mark, the pair turn their attention to Kirstyn's recommended book for the podcast, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. This review by Abigail Nussbaum is mentioned, as are the usual spoilers. Discussion of When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger begins at 56:25. Again, spoilers. Skip ahead at will. But don't forget to check back in around 1:34:50 for some (very brief) final remarks. Next month, Ian has picked Bad Power by Deborah Biancotti, while Kirstyn has chosen Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan. Read ahead and join in the fun!