In this special episode, we're going live to the phones to answer urgent questions across space and time! Big thanks to special guest stars Kevin and Emmanuel! Episode transcript available via: https://www.hugogirlpodcast.com/transcripts
We watched and discussed the new HBO Max limited series adaptation of Station Eleven. We had a VARIETY of opinions, so if you loved it or you hated it, you'll find something to agree with/be mad about in this episode. And we are joined by special guest, Kevin! DM: Chaos CW/TW: murder/death, violence, death in childbirth, intimate partner violence Music by Eon: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss Links: Vulture recaps: Station Eleven — TV Episode Recaps & News (vulture.com) Graphic n...
This month we discussed Larry Niven's Ringworld, which is verifiably a book that won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1971. Even a truly fantastic talking warrior cat couldn't save this litany of Misogynist Moments, but there were still a few things to like. DM: Haley CW/TW: rape, addiction Music by Eon: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss Links: Credit to Simon Bisson for the amazing Moby-Dick crossover: http://file770.com/this-will-ring-your-chimes/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/b...
This month's read is Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold. Despite what Haley described as “an oppressive fantasy feeling,” we all really enjoyed this classic novel in which all the women are strong, all the men are weird-looking, and all the children are the subject of murder plots. DM: Amy CW/TW: rape, weird pregnancy & birth stuff, disability discrimination Transcript: https://www.hugogirlpodcast.com/barrayar Music by Eon: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss Links https://www.tor.com...
Hello! A couple of things - 1) We launched a website! It's a work in progress, but please check it out at https://www.hugogirlpodcast.com/ 2) The deadline to purchase a membership so that you can nominate for the 2022 Hugo Awards is TOMORROW (January 31, 2022). We were just a few nominations short of making it onto last year's ballot, so we would love your support. All levels of memberships are available for purchase on the Chicon website . A $50 supporting membership will allow you to nominate ...
In honor of the recent Moby-Dick Marathon, it's time for a special episode on one of our favorite books of all time. Have you ever wondered if Moby-Dick was Star Wars or Lord of the Rings? It's time to find out! Your ship's captain for this special episode is Haley! More about the Moby-Dick Marathon: https://www.whalingmuseum.org/program/moby-dick-marathon-2022/ Theme music courtesy of Alexander Nakarada - The Wellerman - Royalty Free Cinematic Version DOWNLOAD ► http://bit.ly/34TXdyG - More tha...
This month we read 2012 Hugo nominee for best novel, Leviathan Wakes by James SA Corey. Spoiler alert for how many times you can deride sex workers in one novel! Despite that, we all basically liked this book, we promise. Your DM for this episode is Haley! Music by Eon: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss
Kevin and Lori went to Worldcon in Washington, DC! It was fun! We'll tell you a little bit about the con itself, plus lots about dogs and food and meeting new friends. We were very excited to find out after the Hugo Awards that we were on the long list for best fancast! We were only a few nominations away from the ballot. If you'd like to nominate us this year, be sure to grab your Worldcon 2022 membership by the deadline, January 31. You can purchase a membership online at https://chicon.org/ ....
In this special episode, we learn all of physics, courtesy of amazing physicist Emily Duden! Hear the answers to burning questions like "would a flashlight be useless for a person traveling at the speed of light" and "will I stay young forever if I just never leave an airplane" and "is Interstellar a bunch of foolishness?" Also, relativity! And gravity! And did you know that anything can be a clock?! Yay, science! Check out our Instagram to see a couple of helpful diagrams that Emily used to tea...
What’s not to love about 800 years of a straight man’s discomfited rumination on “homolife?” This month we read Joe Haldeman's military sci-fi classic, The Forever War. Your DM for this episode is Lori! Music by Eon: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss TW/CW: homophobia, compulsory sex Links: https://www.reddit.com/r/sciencefiction/comments/31n046/im_joe_haldeman_author_of_the_forever_war_ama/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/apr/14/back-to-the-hugos-joe-haldeman...
This month we discussed Isaac Asimov's groundbreaking novel about various pairs of dudes scheming in rooms for over a century. Your DM for Foundation is Amy! CW/TW: sexual harassment/assault at cons (especially by Asimov) Music by Eon: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss Links https://twitter.com/petersagal/status/1176115797107838976?lang=ca https://gizmodo.com/dont-look-away-fighting-sexual-harassment-in-the-scifi-1785704207 https://www.tor.com/2021/10/06/asimovs-foundation-and-finding...
We discussed Denis Villeneuve's new movie adaptation of Dune. We liked it a lot! Recommended reading: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/28/dune-muslim-influences-erased/ Recommended listening: https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2021/10/25/the-middle-geeks-episode-31-dune-review/ Music by Eon: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss...
It's our Halloween Spooktacular! This month for spooky season we read and discussed Retro Hugo nominee The Uninvited by Dorothy Macardle. Published in 1941 under the dubious title Uneasy Freehold, this book is chock full of our favorite things: ghosts, breakfasts, lesbians, and a nice orange cat. It has a great twist so we REALLY hope you'll read it. Be warned: spoilers and spirits abound! Your super spooky DM for this episode is Haley! The House - Vivek Abhishek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
This month we discussed The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (translated by Ken Liu), winner of the 2015 Hugo Award for best novel. Did you know that we are in fact three bodies? And by the end of this episode, we are also self-taught physicists. Music by Eon: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss Links: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war-of-the-worlds...
This is a short book so detours abound, but we did (mostly) love that Murderbot! After almost a year and a half of a whole pandemic, who can't identify with wanting to shut your helmet faceplate and feed thousands of hours of TV directly into your brain? Murderbot is all of us. Music by Eon: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss Links: NPR review: https://www.npr.org/2019/01/27/688354123/sulky-cynical-murderbot-is-one-of-sci-fis-most-human-characters NK Jemisin's blog: https://nkjemisin.c...
It's time to eat! Join us as we eat and discuss delicious dishes inspired by The Witcher, The Broken Earth Trilogy, The Legacy of Orïsha, and Lord of the Rings from Cooking for Wizards, Warriors and Dragons , by Thea James and Isabel Minunni. Be forewarned, there's plenty of chewing because this food was good! We are allowed to share a handful of recipes, so send us an email or reach out on social if anything piques your interest! Music by Eon: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss...
This minisode we open and peruse Cooking for Wizards, Warriors and Dragons , a fantasy-inspired collection of recipes, created by Hugo Award winner and co-founder of The Book Smugglers, Thea James, and chef Isabel Minunni. The book also includes forty beautiful illustrations by artist Tim Foley. Listen as we...read the table of contents and talk about lactose intolerance and flossing. It's cuter than it sounds, we promise! This Minisode Part 1 is us going through recipes to select which ones we ...
This month we read The City and the City by China Miéville, which was...fine? Maybe goodish? Is it "New Weird," or is it just weird? We don't know. But we do know that Mare of Easttown would have cracked this case with half as many commas as Inspector Borlú. Music by Eon: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss
In honor of her birthday, please enjoy this reading of Haley's middle school Star Wars fanfiction. There are twins, a quest, an evil guy who definitely isn't just the Emperor, an underwater eatery, 35 minutes of nonstop giggling, cameos by Kevin - you name it, we've got it! This episode is dedicated to our nice friend Juan, who appreciates our giggling. Read along with us and view the author's original cover art here: https://haleyzapal.com/2015/04/16/the-nerantel-gem-or-middle-school-haley-shin...
Episode 29 is here, and now with 50% more podcast! This month we read Hyperion by Dan Simmons, winner of the 1990 Hugo for best novel, and we took a whopping hour and a half to discuss it. This is a very good book, rife with problems and problematics, and a HEAPING helping of boob talk. CW/TW: sexualization of underage girls Music by Eon: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss
This month we read A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, winner of the 2020 Hugo for best novel! This was a fun, steampunky romp. Don't forget to tweet us your Teixcalaanli name! CW/TW: brief discussion of death by suicide at 41:20-43:00. Music by Eon: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss Links: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/07/710356506/questions-for-arkady-martine-author-of-a-memory-called-empire Random number generator: https://www.google.com/search?q=random+number Random noun generat...
This month we went back into the bunner tuggles as we discussed Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein. Music by Eon: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss
BIG NEWS! We're jumping on the true crime train. For our inaugural episode, we discussed the sensational jewelry heist of approximately 3,070 years ago, popularly known as The Lord of the Rings. These events were originally covered by true crime reporter JRR Tolkein in the 1950s. Music: Sir Fireheart by Ean Grimm https://youtu.be/8DCvn484bXw?t=1146 Links: Cinema Therapy: Aragorn vs. Toxic Masculinity https://youtu.be/pv_KAnY5XNQ
This month we discussed Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. We didn’t like it. CW: rape, intimate partner violence Music by Eon: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss Links: http://corabuhlert.com/2021/01/20/fanzine-spotlight-nerds-of-a-feather-flock-together/ http://corabuhlert.com/2021/02/24/fancast-spotlight-hugo-girl/
Hitch a ride on the nearest vehimal and join us for the conclusion of NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy! It's been a wild ride, and everyone is either dead or turned to stone or both. CW: everyone’s dead or dying; medieval torture mastectomy (you read that correctly) Music by Eon: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss Links: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/19/542469223/in-the-stone-sky-some-worlds-need-to-burn http://corabuhlert.com/2021/01/22/fanzine-spotlight-hugo-book-club-blog/ http://hugo...
WE WERE KIND OF CONFUSED BUT MOSTLY LIKED THIS BOOK AND ALSO GEORGIA IS BLUE!! IT'S BLUUUUUUUE! Music by Eon: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss
For this supersized super special episode, we were joined by Ginger Lee Thomason, who is currently writing her thesis on food in fiction and knows every snack in the book! Join us as we geek out over everything from lembas to roach jello to seared krayt dragon. Sound quality is always a crapshoot when recording remotely, so this time around, Lori and Haley are coming to you from the bottom of a well - sorry! Find Ginger at https://gingerleethomason.com/ and @wordsofginger on Twitter....
This month we discussed the 2015 Hugo winner for best novel, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin. There's a lot going on in this book, so our plot summary is longish. If you don't need a plot summary you can skip 5:48-14:35. CW/TW: LANGUAGE and sexual content that you REALLY probably do not want your kids to hear in the car and chant over and over during Zoom school, but if that does happen please tell us because that sounds funny. Music by Eon: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss Links: ht...
We're taking a break from recording this month, so we're releasing the crossover episode we recorded back in January of 2020 with Seth Heasley, creator and host of the Hugos There podcast. This book is wild - all of humanity (and humanoid...ity??) is dead and in a bizarre, harsh afterlife. Actually now that I write that out, it feels familiar. Is 2020 just Riverworld?? CW/TW: suicide, sexual assault, slavery, antisemitism, racism, Nazis, sexism Music by Eon: https:/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE...
It's our Halloween Spooptacular! In honor of Spooptober, we bring you a special episode on Fritz Leiber's 1944 retro Hugo winner for best novel, Conjure Wife. Big thanks to Seth (@hugospodcast) for suggesting this 180-page Misogynist Moment, which asks (over and over and over) if witchcraft might be real. Warning: major digressions ahead. Topics include Elvira and whether or not spit is water. Music by Eon: https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbvE0PJyss Article about the many covers of Conjure Wife:...
