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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.

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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!

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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.

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SF Squeecast onstage at the Hugos. Photo credit: Tor.com

This is us, holding the Best Fancast Hugo Award.

We’re overwhelmed, and probably a bit exhausted from an excess of squee.

So let’s just keep it simple.

THANK YOU. Thank you so. very. much.

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Welcome to the August Episode of the SF Squeecast! Episode 15 is called “Live from CONvergence 2: Electric Boogaloo.” This episode brought together Squeecast regulars Lynne M. Thomas, Elizabeth Bear and Paul Cornell, and Very Special Guest Lois McMaster Bujold! In this episode we talked about:

• Bitter Seeds and The Coldest War , by Ian Tregellis (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
• Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (shared by Paul Cornell)
• Doctor Who, the Seventh Doctor‘s Era (shared by Lynne M. Thomas)
• Bat Bomb: World War II’s Other Secret Weapon, by by Jack Couffer (Shared by Lois McMaster Bujold)

We also had a rapidfire discussion of anime, and Lois 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 CONvergence, especially Tim Wick, and Matt Allex, who made this recording possible.

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Welcome to the July Episode of the SF Squeecast! Episode 14 is called “Obzocky, or, Monkey Farts.” This episode brought together Squeecast regulars  Lynne M. Thomas, Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Catherynne M. Valente, and Very Special Guest Karen Lord! In this episode we talked about:

• Wide Open, by Deborah Coates  (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
• Ghosts by Curdella Forbes (shared by Karen Lord)
• 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (shared by Paul Cornell)
• Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal (shared by Lynne M. Thomas)
• Railsea by China Mieville (Shared by Catherynne M. Valente)

Karen 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.

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Welcome to the June Episode of the SF Squeecast! Episode 13 is called “Of Snickerdoodles, Melting Wombats, Oubliettes, and Mother Pussbuckets.” This episode brought together Squeecast regulars Lynne M. Thomas, Elizabeth Bear, and Seanan McGuire, with our Very Special Guest Sarah Rees Brennan!

In this episode we talked about:

• The works of Barbara Hambly, with emphasis on the Winterlands trilogy (shared by Elizabeth Bear)
• God’s War by Kameron Hurley (shared by Lynne M. Thomas)
• Fictional Live Burials from Poe to Victoria Holt (shared by Sarah Rees Brennan)
• The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (shared by Seanan McGuire)

Sarah 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.