The announcement of the Hugo Award Nominations went out on Saturday.

We are so pleased to announce that the SF Squeecast has been nominated for Best Fancast!

Here’s the whole category:

Best Fancast (346 ballots)

The Coode Street Podcast, Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe
Galactic Suburbia Podcast, Alisa Krasnostein, Alexandra Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts (Presenters) and Andrew Finch (Producer)
SF Signal Podcast, Patrick Hester, John DeNardo, and JP Frantz
SF Squeecast, Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, Catherynne M. Valente (Presenters) and David McHone-Chase (Technical Producer)
StarShipSofa, Tony C. Smith

We’re in great company. Thanks to everyone who nominated us! Now, go forth, listen to all of the great podcasts, and vote!

Episode 22! This episode features Lynne M. Thomas, Elizabeth Bear, Catherynne M. Valente, and special guest Charles A. Tan!

In this episode we discuss:

• American Horror Story (Shared by Catherynne M. Valente)
• A Wrinkle in Time (Shared by Lynne M. Thomas)
• In the Forest of Forgetting by Theodora Goss (re-release by Papaveria Press) (Shared by Charles A. Tan)
• ELMER by Gerry Alanguilan (Shared by Elizabeth Bear)

And Charles answered our silly questions, too!

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Additional credits: Special thanks to our webmaster, Dmitri Zagidulin, our technical producer David McHone-Chase, Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studios for the instrumentals of music by Seanan McGuire, Katy Shuttleworth, who made our ROCKING logo, and Michael Damian Thomas for general administrative support.

Episode 22: All Hail the Sentient Chickens [ 25:32 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

NB: Due to technical problems with our RSS Feed and iTunes, we’ve had to delete and repost this episode on the website in an attempt to fix it.

Welcome to the February Episode of the SF Squeecast! Episode 21 is called “A Really Scary Bed Sheet.” This episode features the SF Squeecast regulars Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, Catherynne M. Valente, and SPECIAL GUEST Amber Benson! In this episode we squeed about:

• Cossbysweater (shared by Amber Benson)
• The American Fairy Trilogy by Sarah Zettel (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
• A Ghost Story for Christmas (shared by Paul Cornell)
• The Lost Room (shared by Catherynne M. Valente)
• Wreck-It Ralph (shared by Seanan McGuire)

Please excuse the audio quality of this episode. We were having Skype issues, and Lynne’s new mic was picking up EVERYTHING.

Click here to listen, press play below, or right-click to download the episode (mp3)

Additional credits: Special thanks to our webmaster, Dmitri Zagidulin, our technical producer David McHone-Chase, Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studios for the instrumentals of music by Seanan McGuire, Katy Shuttleworth, who made our ROCKING logo, and Michael Damian Thomas for general administrative support.

SF Squeecast Episode 21: A Really Scary Bedsheet [ 31:19 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Welcome to the January Episode of the SF Squeecast! Episode 20 is called “Contains Homeopathic Quantities of Meat.” This episode features the SF Squeecast regulars Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, and Catherynne M. Valente! In this episode we squeed about:

• Antiquities and Tangibles by Tim Pratt (shared by Lynne M. Thomas)
• SF/F Food Blogs including Cooking the Books, Food Through the Pages, Inn at the Crossroads , Fictional Food, and Eating Authors (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
• 2000 AD “Trifecta” (shared by Paul Cornell)
• d’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths and d’Aulaire’s Book of Norse Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire (shared by Catherynne M. Valente)
• Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan (shared by Seanan McGuire)

Click here to listen, press play below, or right-click to download the episode (mp3)

Additional credits: Special thanks to our webmaster, Dmitri Zagidulin, our technical producer David McHone-Chase, Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studios for the instrumentals of music by Seanan McGuire, Katy Shuttleworth, who made our ROCKING logo, and Michael Damian Thomas for general administrative support.

Welcome to the December Episode of the SF Squeecast! Episode 19 is called “Delicious, Delicious Sin…” This episode features the SF Squeecast regulars Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Lynne M. Thomas, and Very Special Guest Sarah Monette! In this episode we squeed about:

• After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh (shared by Lynne M. Thomas)
• Nexus by Ramez Naam (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
• Merlin (shared by Paul Cornell)
• Sherlock Holmes in Many Forms (shared by Sarah Monette)

Click here to listen, press play below, or right-click to download the episode (mp3)

Additional credits: Special thanks to our webmaster, Dmitri Zagidulin, our technical producer David McHone-Chase, Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studios for the instrumentals of music by Seanan McGuire, Katy Shuttleworth, who made our ROCKING logo, and Michael Damian Thomas for general administrative support.

A SPECIAL THANKS this month to Dmitri and Michael for dealing with some major website issues!

Welcome to the November Episode of the Hugo Award-winning SF Squeecast! Episode 18 is called “You Can’t Put Your Finger There!” This episode features the SF Squeecast regulars Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, and Catheynne M. Valente! In this episode we squeed about:

• Love and Romanpunk by Tansy Rayner Roberts (shared by Lynne M. Thomas)
• Ink by Sabrina Vourvoulias (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
• Mockingbird Lane (shared by Seanan McGuire)
• Quatermass (shared by Paul Cornell)
• Seaward by Susan Cooper (shared by Catherynne M. Valente)

Click here to listen, press play below, or right-click to download the episode (mp3)

Additional credits: Special thanks to our webmaster, Dmitri Zagidulin, our technical producer David McHone-Chase, Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studios for the instrumentals of music by Seanan McGuire, Katy Shuttleworth, who made our ROCKING logo, and Michael Damian Thomas for general administrative support.

Welcome to the October Episode of the Hugo Award-winning SF Squeecast! Episode 17 is called “Be Bloody, Bold, and Resolute.” This episode features the SF Squeecast regulars Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, and Very Special Guest Ellen Kushner! In this episode we squeed about:

• Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick (shared by Lynne M. Thomas)
• Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
• Ludo (shared by Seanan McGuire)
• Dan Dare (shared by Paul Cornell)
• The Flora Fyrdraaca Novels by Ysabeau S. Wilce (shared by Ellen Kushner)

Ellen also answered our silly questions.

Click here to listen, press play below, or right-click to download the episode (mp3)

Additional credits: Special thanks to our webmaster, Dmitri Zagidulin, our technical producer David McHone-Chase, Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studios for the instrumentals of music by Seanan McGuire, Katy Shuttleworth, who made our ROCKING logo, and Michael Damian Thomas for general administrative support.

Welcome to the September Episode of the Hugo Award-winning SF Squeecast! Episode 16 is called “Live from Chicon: Keeping It Classy on the Eve of a Hugo Award.” This episode brought together for THE VERY FIRST TIME EVER IN PERSON the SF Squeecast regulars Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Seanan McGuire, Lynne M. Thomas, and Catherynne M. Valente with Very Special Guests Jay Lake and Sarah Monette! In this episode we squeed about:

• Engine Summer by John Crowley (shared by Catherynne M. Valente)
• Rubber (shared by Jay Lake)
• The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers and Chime by Franny Billingsley (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
• Night of the Comet(shared by Seanan McGuire)
• The Hugo Awards(shared by Paul Cornell)

Jay also answered our silly questions.

Click here to listen, press play below, or right-click to download the episode (mp3)

Additional credits: Special thanks to our webmaster, Dmitri Zagidulin, our technical producer David McHone-Chase, Jeff Bohnhoff at Mystic Fig Studios for the instrumentals of music by Seanan McGuire, Katy Shuttleworth, who made our ROCKING logo, and Michael D. Thomas for general administrative support. Extra special thanks to the programming team at Chicon, especially Steven H Silver, who made this recording possible and Harold Stein and Peter for the microphone.

Welcome to the very first Open Squee Thread for the SF Squeecast, where you can share your squee with the world (or at least, our listeners)!

Rules for Open Squee Thread:

1.Be squeeful about the work of others. Suggestions may only come from those who are not directly involved in the creation of the object of squee. No suggesting books, media, etc. where you yourself are the creator/writer/editor/producer. Any item so suggested will be ignored. And possibly deleted, if the moderator is feeling cranky.

2. It’s not enough to tell us that you think something is squee-worthy and just list it. Tell us why. This is your chance to intrigue our listeners into checking something out. Be original. Be funny if you can. Tell us in glorious detail how and why your suggestion is made of awesome.

3. Do not harsh the squee of others’ suggestions. Squee is intensely personal; harshing someone else’s squee is not cool. If someone suggests [x], DO NOT follow up with “no, [x] is TERRIBLE. You should look at [y] instead, which is way more awesome.” If someone else’s suggestion is not your cup of tea, post your own without slamming someone else’s.

Squee on!

Hi!

So, since the Hugo win, we’ve had a good strong handful of inquiries as to how we select our items for squeeage, our guests, and the like. We’re glad you’re interested! This is something that we’ve discussed in passing before, but until now, our policies about how, why, and with whom we squee were pretty informal. We’ve taken the step of formalizing them and listing them on our “About” page.

For your convenience, I’m reproducing the salient points here:

We work in a show-and-tell format, with contributors selecting materials to discuss on the podcast. Contributors will not discuss or promote their own work, or the work of those appearing on the podcast in that episode. We did one very awkward episode where that happened. That’s all you get. Because awkward.

Please note that unlike regular review podcasts, the SF Squeecast does not accept review copies, ARCs, or the like, in an effort to keep our inboxes less cluttered, and our choice-making as fair as possible.

All guests or interviewees appearing on the SF Squeecast are by direct invitation only.

Thanks for your understanding. ‘

That said, for those of you who want to talk about things that make you happy, we hear you! We’ve come up with a way to let you squee along with us. We will be hosting an Open Squee Thread on this blog periodically. Our first Open Squee Thread, along with the rules for the thread, will be posted shortly.