Episode 28: Mastering the Dragons

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