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With plans for are promised chat with Elizabeth Hand and Alix E. Harrow on temporary hold, Jonathan and Gary share some pleasant memories of the World Fantasy Convention, muse about whether the nature of conventions has changed in the wake of the pandemic, and speculate about next year's events in Glasgow, Niagara Falls, and elsewhere. They then touch upon some books they're looking forward to in 2024, including novels by Kelly Link, Nisi Shawl, Peter S. Beagle, and Paolo Bacigalupi, and some titles they'd recommend from 2023, including novels by Ian McDonald, Nina Allan, Geoff Ryman, Christopher Priest, Francis Spufford, Wole Talabi, and Nicola Griffith, as well as a few story collections, anthologies, and nonfiction books. By the end, it almost all comes into some sort of focus.

[…] Traquée par les abayas jusque dans nos bras, la Salle 101 s’offre quelques nouveautés de nature à égayer cette époque morne livrée au wokisme et au terrorisme écologique : L’étoile du matin, nouvelle chose de Karl Ove Knausgard. Conquest, nouveau truc de Nina Allan. Au nord du monde, vieux machin de Marcel Théroux. Guedin […]

On this episode of The Writer and the Critic, your hosts Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, ruminate briefly upon head colds, snoring and cats. Very briefly. The books up for discussion this month are The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig [3:30] and Conquest by Nina Allan [31:25]. Listeners may want to check out the following, as mentioned: Chuck Wendig's blog: Terrible Minds Nina Allan's website: The Spider's House Review of Conquest in Locus by Gary K. Wolfe If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 59:25 for final remarks. Next month, the two books on the slab will be: The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekra Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

DARK MYSTERIES Tuesday and Friday at 2am CET - Wednesday and Friday at 1pm CET (podcast on Sundays). This program is hosted by Madeleine d'Este. This week, Madeleine talks about the book "The Good Neighbours" by Nina Allan.

As the year draws to a close, so too does this season of The Tiny Bookcase! Here we celebrate some of the fantastic storytellers we've had on. Don't fret if your favourite isn't here, you'll find them next week in part two!This episode features the work of Dr. Charles E Gannon, Simon Bestwick, RJ Barker,  Nina Allan and the Stew World Order Podcast!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thetinybookcase)

[…] Transportée par la joie, la productivité et les dividendes, la Salle 101 fait de judicieux placements en te chroniquant des trucs de ouf, juge plutôt : Dans la maison rêvée, roman guedin de Carmen Maria Machado. Le créateur de poupées, roman youpiesque de Nina Allan. Les maître enlumineurs tome 1, roman de SF pure [...]

[…] Transportée par la joie, la productivité et les dividendes, la Salle 101 fait de judicieux placements en te chroniquant des trucs de ouf, juge plutôt : Dans la maison rêvée, roman guedin de Carmen Maria Machado. Le créateur de poupées, roman youpiesque de Nina Allan. Les maître enlumineurs tome 1, roman de SF pure […]

Host Mark Norman is joined by Nina Allan, author of 'The Dollmaker' to discuss her novel 'The Good Neighbours' which fuses crime investigation, the power of myth is shaping human narratives and the world of fairy belief.We discuss some of the themes of the book, including the work of Victorian painter Richard Dadd, whose most famous work 'The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke' adorns the cover of the novel and beliefs in the world of fairy.Visit Nina's website hereThe Folklore Podcast Book Club is part of The Folklore Network, which strives to collect and preserve folklore materials for future generations, housing them in The Folklore Library and Archive. Please share our work and, if you can, support us here for extra content.

A mind as sharp as her tongue is long, Nina regales us with tales of time travel, featherless birds and rambling writing! Nico and Ben had their brains stretched, and you should too.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thetinybookcase)

From across the Scottish Moor, a voice rings clear and lyrically regales our intrepid hosts, Ben and Nico, with more tales!Join the boys and their guest, the deeply talented and lightly mysterious Nina Allan, as they try and refill the prompt "Empty Tank".Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thetinybookcase)

Philippa interviews Allie Reynolds about her book “Shiver” and also reviews “Blood & Sugar” by Laura Shepherd-Robinson, “Queen Lucia & Miss Mapp” by E F Benson, “The Good Neighbours” by Nina Allan and “One Last Time” by Helga flatland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nina Allan has won the British Science Fiction Award, the Novella Award, the Kitschies Red Tentacle and France's Grand Prix de L'Imaginaire. Her first published piece of fiction appeared in a magazine called Dark Horizons in 2002. Since then, her stories have featured in numerous magazines and anthologies including The Year's Best Science Fiction, Best Horror of the Year and The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime. Her latest book, The Good Neighbours, is released on 10 June 2021.We loved talking to Nina about her lifelong love of speculative fiction, including science fiction, the gothic, weird fiction and good old fashioned ghost stories and why she is particularly interested in work that tests the boundaries of genre: playing with philosophical ideas, savouring language, and experimenting with form. We talked about how SFF and horror cons can be a great place for budding writers to make connections, and hear about her rather unique redrafting process!Links:Buy The Good Neigbours and Nina's other books now!Visit Nina's websiteCymera Festival 2021Watch our video panel Page One Sessions as we discuss writing with great authors: https://youtu.be/gmE6iCDYn-sThe Page One Podcast is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-oneFollow us on Twitter: @write_gearFollow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WriteGearUK/Follow us on Instagram: write_gear_uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. Award-winning novelist and critic Nina Allan talks with Gary about what the lockdown has been like on a Scottish island almost devoid of the usual seasonal tourists, the appeal of golden age crime novels, the fascinating exercise of seeing how contemporary SFF works sometimes map onto older or classic works, the reissue of her collection Stardust (with a new story added!), and her forthcoming novels. Books mentioned include: Ruby by Nina Allan The Good Neighbors by Nina Allan (forthcoming 2021) The Last Astronaut by David Wellington Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke Engine Summer by John Crowley Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh

Comme tous les mardis, La Librairie Charybde vous parle de trois livres qu'elle aime : - (0:52)La Fracture de Nina Allan, Tristram(2017) Disparition inexpliquée et explication inacceptable, imposture et improbabilité, souvenir névrotique et mémoire défaillante : un usage brûlant et malicieux de l’arme science-fictive. Découvrez la fiche de lecture : https://bit.ly/31zCZI2 - (05:12) : 77 de Marin Fouqué, Actes Sud (2019) Sublime enfance d’un fief : comment grandir dans le silence du sud 77. Drôle, poignant, inventif en diable : une très belle surprise. Découvrez la fiche de lecture : https://bit.ly/2qxyReS - Apocalypse des homards de Jean-Marc Agrati, Nouvelles & Shots (2011) En savoir + : Librairie Charybde : www.charybde.fr Le blog de la librairie : charybde2.wordpress.com

Comme tous les mardis, La Librairie Charybde vous parle de trois livres qu'elle aime : - (0:52)La Fracture de Nina Allan, Tristram(2017)Disparition inexpliquée et explication inacceptable, imposture et improbabilité, souvenir névrotique et mémoire défaillante : un usage brûlant et malicieux de l’arme science-fictive.Découvrez la fiche de lecture : https://bit.ly/31zCZI2- (05:12) : 77 de Marin Fouqué, Actes Sud (2019)Sublime enfance d’un fief : comment grandir dans le silence du sud 77. Drôle, poignant, inventif en diable : une très belle surprise.Découvrez la fiche de lecture : https://bit.ly/2qxyReS- Apocalypse des homards de Jean-Marc Agrati, Nouvelles & Shots (2011)En savoir + :Librairie Charybde : www.charybde.frLe blog de la librairie : charybde2.wordpress.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're on a roll! Two episodes in two weeks. Surely it can't last! Gary has been reading Margaret Atwood's Booker Prize-winning novel The Testaments and it's sparked off all sorts of thoughts on that old chestnut: science fiction vs. literary fiction. What are literary writers doing when they write SF? Can SF writers cross-over to the mainstream? Is this purely a generational perspective and does it just not matter any more? All these questions are at least touched on, if not settled (they're not settled), as well as mentions of Lethem, Le Guin, Chabon and others, and a brief discussion of robots and AI in SF. They even discuss some very interesting comments on the Atwood novel by Nina Allan over on her blog. All in all, a typical rambly shambles. As always, we hope you enjoy!

Bienvenidos a un nuevo capítulo del podcast de los VerdHugos.En este programa destripamos los nominados a los premios Nébula de este año, que casi casi nos sirven también para destripar los nominados a los Hugo, ya que son muy similares. Después, hablamos de lo que hemos estado leyendo últimamente.Minuto 2 Relatos cortosMinuto 10 NovelasMinuto 24 Novelas cortasMinuto 32 RelatosMinuto 42 Presentación dramáticaMinuto 55 ¿Sabemos lo que es un libro juvenil?RecomendacionesMiquelEvery Heart a Doorway de Seanan McGuireRosewater de Tade ThomsonFriday Black de Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahKentuckis de Samantha SchweblinMedusa Uploaded de Emily DavenportSkyward de Brandon SandersonScience Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System de John RiederArmandoLa Espada Salvaje de ConanElíasExhalation de Ted ChiangEmpire of Silence de Christopher RuocchioAlexHerederos del Tiempo de Adrian TchaikovskyPermafrost de Alastair ReynoldsThe Gutter Prayer de Gareth HanrahanJosep MaríaHarrow CountyThe Doll Maker de Nina AllanLeticiaBooks of Babel de Josiah Bancroft

This episode features "The Gift of Angels: an introduction" written by Nina Allan. Published in the November 2018 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/allan_11_18 Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld

This episode features "The Gift of Angels: an introduction" written by Nina Allan. Published in the November 2018 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker. The text version of this story can be found at: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/allan_11_18 Support us on Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld

[...] Nina Allan et Carola Dibbell sont passées nous voir à la librairie Charybde, évoquant leurs récents romans (La course & The only ones), la vie, la littérature et encore la vie. C’était beau, c’était bon, c’était bien, c’était ici.

[…] Nina Allan et Carola Dibbell sont passées nous voir à la librairie Charybde, évoquant leurs récents romans (La course & The only ones), la vie, la littérature et encore la vie. C'était beau, c'était bon, c'était bien, c'était ici.

Our third podcast for June is "Neptune's Trident" written by Nina Allan and read by Kate Baker. Support us at Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld

Our third podcast for June is "Neptune's Trident" written by Nina Allan and read by Kate Baker. Support us at Patreon at http://patreon.com/clarkesworld

Invitado: Antonio Díaz (@mertonio)Meses despues de grabar, aquí tenéis VerdHugos S05E02, el episodio en el que hablamos de:(0h) La Eurocon, celebrada en Barcelona entre el 4 y el 6 de noviembre. Hablamos de las cosas más chulas y de las menos chulas. ¡Ah! Y podéis ver todas las charlas de la convención en esta lista de youtube. En esta sección, también pasamos revista a los resultados de los Premios Ignotus y a los de los ESFS Awards, donde los candidatos españoles tuvieron muy buenos resultados.(0h:38m) El tema principal del episodio ha sido el papel de la mujer en la ciencia ficción y la fantasía. Hemos hecho un repaso a la evolución de las autoras, a algunas razones que podrían explicar las diferencias de género en el género (see what I did there?) y hemos repasado algunas de las iniciativas más recientes que se han impulsado desde el fandom para destacar la obra de distintas autoras, como La Nave Invisible o el #LeoAutorasFantásticas impulsado por la autora Felicidad Martínez en Goodreads.(1h:22m) Y finalmente, como es habitual, cada uno de nosotros ha hecho un par de recomendaciones de obras relacionadas con el género, que os detallamos a continuación. En esta ocasión, aprovechando el tema principal del episodio, todos hemos recomendado obras de autoras.Podéis descargar o escuchar el episodio aquí, en Itunes o en Ivoox.RecomendacionesMiquel Codony"Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego", de Mariana Enríquez."A mi no me engañas", de Kelly Link.Antonio Díaz"The Goblin Emperor", de Katherine Addison."Every Heart a Doorway", de Seanan McGuire.Josep Maria Oriol“The Harlequin”, de Nina Allan.“Orlando”, de Virginia Woolf.Armando Saldaña“The Snow Queen”, de Joan D. Vinge.“Dreamsnake”, de Vonda N. McIntyre.Elías Combarro“The Obelisk Gate”, de N.K. Jemisin.“Seven Wonders of a Once and Future World”, de Caroline M. Yoachim.Leticia Lara“La Mirada Extraña”, de Felicidad Martínez.“Slipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing”, de Leuren Beukes.BSOEpic Mountain Goat Related Music by Son of Robot is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

This month on The Writer and the Critic your hosts, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, plunge straight into discussing two short story collections, Get in Trouble by Kelly Link [1:30] and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi [40:10].  Listeners might like to check out the following links mentioned during the podcast: Get in Trouble reviewed by David Ulin in the Los Angeles Times What is Not Yours is Not Yours reviewed by Nina Allan in Strange Horizons What is Not Yours is Not Yours reviewed by Kate Clanchy in the Guardian If you've skipped ahead to avoid spoilers, please come back at 1:33:30 for final remarks. Up for discussion on the next episode - which will be the first episode of 2017! - are two more  short story collections: Bødy by Asa Nonami Ghost Summer: Stories by Tananarive Due Read ahead and join in the spoilerific fun!

In this podcast twenty writers discuss the best writing advice they’ve received. Contributions from Stephen Graham Jones, Mercedes M. Yardley, Helen Marshall, Paul Tremblay, George Ttoouli, Nina Allan, David Moody, Jessica McHugh, John F.D. Taff, John C. Foster, David Bowles, Lisa L. Hannett, Bob Pastorella, Josh Malerman, Richard Thomas, Vincenzo Bilof, Jasper Bark, Sarah Langan, S. … Continue reading

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Ed, Ninfa and Producer Al discuss the recent Hugo Awards as well John Scalzi's Substandard Nemesis, Vox Day. We also talk about The Atrocity Archves by Charles Stross and Lips Touch by Laini Taylor. The guest interview is Nina Allan. All recordings are issued under official license from Fab Radio International. The Bookworm is a Truly Outrageous Production.

Two weeks ago we were fortunate enough to have Nina Allan and Renay as guests on the Coode Street Podcast (Episode 244: Renay, Nina Allan & the Weight of Fannish History). We discussed barriers to entry to fandom, inclusiveness and other issues  This week Gary and Jonathan continue that discussion in a fairly typical Coode Street ramble where we talk about inclusiveness, attending conventions, and much more. This episode was recorded prior to WorldCon and the Hugo Awards, which we may get to in coming weeks. Until then we hope you enjoy the episode!

This week we are joined by reviewer, critic, podcaster and one half of the Ladybusiness team, Renay, and British Science Fiction Award winning author of The Race, Nina Allan, to discuss the implications of Renay's recent essay on Strange Horizons, ‘Communities: Weight of History'. In an engaging discussing we touch on what it is that makes a science fiction fan, what a fan needs to know about SF, whether there is a ‘science fiction canon', how much of you actually need to be familiar with, whether there is cultural pressure to read stories by men, and if women are being made invisible and written out of SF history. Oh, and probably some stuff we've left out.  We are very grateful to both Nina and Renay for making time to be part of the podcast and, as always, we hope you enjoy the episode. More next week!

¡Por fin estamos aquí! Diversos problemas técnicos nos ha impedido ofreceros antes este segundo episodio de nuestra cuarta temporada (y, de hecho, notaréis que el sonido no es especialmente bueno en algunos momentos), pero los hemos sorteado como mejor hemos podido. ¡Todo por vosotros, queridos oyentes!En este episodio los VerdHugos dedicaremos un rato a hablar de la pasada HispaCon, la MIRcon, celebrada en diciembre en Montcada y Reixac (guarida en la vida real de Miquel Codony, uno de los organizadores) y aprovecharemos la presencia de Leticia Lara para saber todo lo posible de un proyecto muy interesante en el que ella estuvo involucrada: Alucinadas, la antología de ciencia ficción escrita por mujeres en la que participó como editora acompañada por Cristina Jurado. La segunda mitad del programa la dedicaremos a valorar el año 2014 en lo que a literatura fantástica se refiere y a explicar nuestras expectativas de cara a 2015. Para finalizar, siguiendo la costumbre, cada uno de nosotros recomendará dos libros o tebeos:LeticiaVita Nostra, de Sergey y Marina Dyachenko Tebeo: Sir Pyle S. Culapio (Guión: Jean-David Morvan; Dibujo: José Luis Munuera y Rubén)Pedro Los Premios Ignotus 1991-2000, edición de Rodolfo Martínez Serie: The Best American Science and Nature WritingJosep María Pandemonium, de Daryl Gregory The Race, de Nina AllanElíasThe Three-Body Problem, de Liu Cixin Dark Intelligence, de Neal AsherMiquelLa Rueda Celeste (The Lathe of Heaven), de Ursula K. Le Guin Historia y Antología de la Ciencia Ficción Española, de Julián Díez y Fernando Ángel MorenoEl episodio se puede descargar de archive.org y, en cuanto se propaguen los feeds, de iVoox e iTunes.Música: Bitches of your souls (The Saurs) - http://thesaurs.bandcamp.com/Logotipo: Javier Hansard

Sure that we were on to something, we decided to follow up last week's discussion of the State of British SF with Paul Kincaid and Nina Allan with a discussion about the State of Australian SF with editor/publisher Alisa Krasnostein of Twelfth Planet Press and bestselling Australian SF writer Sean Williams.   While there is always more that could be said about trends, particular publishers, or individual writers, a fairly-wide-reaching conversation did manage to cover a lot in a little over an hour.  The podcast also includes some recommendations for books we think you should check out if you're interested in current Australian SF. As always, we would like to thank our guests Alisa and Sean for making the time to be on the podcast, and hope that you enjoy the episode. See you next week!

This week something special. Following on from conversations at the London Worldcon and articles by Martin Petto * and others, Gary and Jonathan are joined by Nina Allan and Paul Kincaid to discuss the state of British science fiction. Are we having breakfast in the ruins, or is there hope to be found on the bookshelves? Mentioned during the podcast, Gwyneth Jones's first new novel in six years, The Grasshopper's Child (now available from electronic retailers). Pick up a copy (it's cheap!) and discover or rediscover this marvelous writer. As always, our thanks to our guests. We hope you enjoy the podcast. *Correction: Martin Petto's name was spelled incorrectly in this post. Apologies for the error.

Estimados oyentes, nos complace sobremanera volver a presentarnos en sus vidas con el episodio episodio más reciente del podcast de Los VerdHugos, de nuevo en su formación extendida con Leticia Lara de Fantástica Ficción. En este episodio charlaremos de fantasía y ciencia ficción, con la excusa de pasar revista a las nominaciones a la actual edición de los Premios Hugo y los ganadores de los Premios Nebula.Entre los temas que hemos comentado se cuentan algunas de las polémicas que se han producido este año en torno a los premios Hugo, como la existencia de una campaña que ha llevado a la nominación de algunos autores con ideas… bueno… valorad vosotros mismos… (y, por si os parece poco, podéis echar un vistazo a lo que pensamos de la calidad de su obra)  o la impopular decisión por parte de Orbit de no incluir ninguna de sus novelas en el Hugo Voter’s Pack.Al final del programa, siguiendo nuestra tónica habitual, cada uno de los cinco verdhugos recomendará un par de libros o cómics que haya leído recientemente y considere merecedores de vuestra atención. Rompiendo una lanza a favor de los espoilers, las recomendaciones en cuestión son las siguientes:Las Recomendaciones de Los VerdHugosElías- Reach for Infinity, Jonathan Strahan (Antología) - Vicious, de Victoria Schwab Pedro- La Cosecha de Samhein, de José Antonio Cotrina - Maquinas del Tiempo, de Nina Allan Leti- Puente de Pájaros, de Barry Hughart - Zot!, de Scott McCloud Miquel- James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, de Julie Phillips. - Quemando Cromo, de William Gibson Josep María- Las Sirenas de Titán, de Kurt Vonnegut - In Search of Wonder, de Damon Knight Como siempre, podéis descargar el episodio en Archive.org y, en cuanto se propaguen los feeds, en iVoox e iTunes.Créditos:Música: Bitches of your souls (The Saurs) Logotipo: Javier Hansard

StarShipSofa is proud to present all four nominees in the “Best Short Fiction” category of the British Science Fiction Association! You can vote for the BSFA awards here by Monday, April 14.   Main Fiction 3: “Selkie Stories are for Losers” by Sofia Samatar 02:00 I hate selkie stories. They’re always about how you went up to the attic to look for a book, and you found a disgusting old coat and brought it downstairs between finger and thumb and said “What’s this?”, and you never saw your mom again.   Sofia is the author of the novel A Stranger in Olondria (Small Beer Press, April 2013). She edits nonfiction and poetry for Interfictions: A... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

[...] galvanisée par le boom de la vente de scooters en Île de France, la Salle 101 parle d’un petit livre qui marche bien ‑ Don Quichotte ‑, sans pour autant négliger la littérature plus classique, avec Complications, de Nina Allan et Bilbo le hobbit, de on ne sait plus qui. Alors, qu’est-ce qu’on dit ? « Ne [...]

[…] galvanisée par le boom de la vente de scooters en Île de France, la Salle 101 parle d'un petit livre qui marche bien ‑ Don Quichotte ‑, sans pour autant négliger la littérature plus classique, avec Complications, de Nina Allan et Bilbo le hobbit, de on ne sait plus qui. Alors, qu'est-ce qu'on dit ? […]

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On this episode of The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond proffer a correction from Cheryl Morgan in regards to Hugo Awards eligibility before entangling themselves in more culturally appropriative knots sparked off by some very interesting feedback from Karen Lord. They also announce a list of giveaway novels in order to bribe listeners into recommending original, self-published eBooks for their newly named eBook Extravaganza ... so follow them on Twitter and start recommending! During discussion of The Silver Wind by Nina Allan (beginning at 35:30), Ian mentions this review by Martin Lewis while Kirstyn quotes from this piece by Sofia  Samatar.  The conversation then turns to The Courier's New Bicycle by Kim Westwood at 59:45 wherein this review by Cheryl Morgan is mentioned. Tune back in around the 01:43:00 point for final remarks. Next month, Ian and Kirstyn invite UK author Robert Shearman onto the podcast. (You may remember a discussion of Rob's most excellent story collection, Everyone's Just So So Special, on Episode 12. If you don't remember, go back and listen to it right now!)  Rob has recommended Perfume by Patrick Süskind for everyone to read, while Ian Mond has picked Queenpin by Megan Abbott and Kirstyn has chosen Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub. Read ahead and join in the fun!

On this episode of The Writer and the Critic, Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond announce a New Idea for a future episode of the podcast. They would like to spend an episode reviewing a handful originally self-published eBooks as recommended by their listeners. Whether this ends up being a Good Idea or a Bad Idea will largely depend on listener participation, so get listening and get participating. There may even be prizes involved ... more info on this next month once they work out what potential prizes they actually have to offer! After a discussion about their current (e)reading habits and changes in book buying practices, the duo then move onto talk about the two books chosen for the podcast this month. A lengthy discussion of and around -- and around and around -- Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord begins at 18:30 with the conversation about  Zoo City by Lauren Beukes starting at 01:07:30. Yes, it's a long podcast this time. That's what happens with books that are interesting, intelligent and inspiring. Tune back in around the 01:57:20 point for final remarks. Next month, Ian has recommended The Silver Wind by Nina Allan while Kirstyn has picked The Courier's New Bicycle by Kim Westwood. Read ahead and join in the fun!