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Worldcon75 podcast about gender in science fiction films and TV with Andrew M. Butler and Aino-Kaisa Koistinen. Hosted by Jani Ylönen.

In this podcast we find out what are the different voices heard in today's science fiction.

Andrew M. Butler is senior lecturer in School of Media, Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University. He teaches film, television, popular culture and cultural theory.

Aino-Kaisa Koistinen is a Se­nior Re­searc­her at University of Jyväskylä, Department of Art and Culture Studies. Her research interests are speculative fiction, posthumanism, media culture, popular culture and gender studies.

Following titles were mentioned during the discussion:
Wonder Woman
Doctor Who
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Bionic woman
Alien movies
Orphan Black
I Love Lucy
Xena: Warrior Princess
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Fall
Twin Peaks
Jessica Jones
Game of Thrones
Star Wars
The Avengers
Babylon 5
Farscape
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek
Dawson’s Creek
The Sirens of Titan
The Left Hand of Darkness
North Wind
White Queen
Phoenix Cafe
Possession
iZombie
Arrival
The Handmaid's Tale
Born in Flames
Dinner at Helen's
Peeling

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Worldcon75 podcast about estrangement with Gary K. Wolfe and John Clute. Hosted by Jani Ylönen.

Prominent science fiction critics and writers Gary K. Wolfe and John Clute discuss estrangement, the Academic Track's theme in Worldcon75. Weirdly enough discussion veers to New Weird as well.

Gary K. Wolfe is science fiction editor, critic and biographer. He is also a co-host in the Hugo nominated weekly podcast on science fiction called The Coode Street Podcast. His works include Evaporating Genres: Essays on Fantastic Literature.

John Clute is a science fiction and fantasy literature writer and critic. He was one of founders the English magazine Interzone. His works include the Hugo award winning The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979; second edition 1993) with Peter Nicholls, and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997) with John Grant. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (SFE) is continually updated and is available at sf-encyclopedia.com. It won a 2012 Hugo.

Following titles were mentioned during the discussion:
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction
Victorian Science Fiction in the UK
The Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and that Hideous Strength)
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre
The Turn of the Screw
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Solaris
The Roads Must Roll
All the Birds in the Sky
Borne
This Census-Taker
The Last Days of New Paris
Dying Earth fantasy series
New York 2140
The Moon and the Other
Oryx and Crake
MaddAddam
The Year of the Flood
Soylent Green
The End of the Dream

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Worldcon75 podcast with Ken Liu and Stanley Chan. Hosted by Jani Ylönen.

Join Jani, Ken and Stanley in a brief chat in the midst of the Worldcon75 about science fiction, cyber punk, writing and translating.

Ken Liu is an award winning science-fiction and fantasy writer and translator of science fiction and literary stories from Chinese into English. His works include The Grace of Kings, The Wall of Storms and Mono no aware, Hugo award winning short story.

Stanley Chan is an award winning science fiction writer and his works have have been published in magazines like Science Fiction World, Esquire, Chutzpah. His debut novel, The Waste Tide, was published in 2013.

Following titles were mentioned during the discussion:
The Three Body Problem
The Waste Tide
The Dandelion Dynasty
The Paper Menagerie

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Worldcon75 podcast about writing in a second language with Aliette de Bodard and Emmi Itäranta. Hosted by Jani Ylönen.

How does it feel to read a story that you wrote in a second language as a translation into your own first language made by someone else? Answer is weird. This and more in this Worldcon75 podcast about writing in a second language.

Aliette de Bodard is award winning writer of fantasy and science fiction. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, Sturgeon, and Tiptree Awards. Her works includes The House of Shattered Wings, The House of Binding Thorns and ongoing Xuya universe series.

Emmi Itäranta writes science fiction and speculative fiction. Her debut novel Memory of Water was nominated for the 2014 Philip K. Dick Award, as well as the Golden Tentacle Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Following titles were mentioned during the discussion:
How to write science fiction & fantasy
The Three Body Problem
The World SF Blog
The House of Shattered Wings
The House of Binding Thorns

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Worldcon75 podcast about Epic Fantasy with Edward James and Jyrki Korpua. Hosted by Jani Ylönen.

Prepare to read long books! Is one of the lessons learned when Edward James and Jyrki Korpua talk about Epic fantasy in literature, television and film.

Edward James is a British scholar of medieval history and science fiction and he is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at University College, Dublin.

Jyrki Korpua is a Finnish university reseacher at the University of Oulu and he acts as Chair of the Board in The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research and is former chair of The Society for Cultural Studies (Kulttuurintutkimuksen seura ry).

Following titles were mentioned during the discussion:
Lord of the Rings
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
A Song of Fire and Ice
Game of Thrones
The Shannara Chronicles
Stardust
Sandman
Tales of King Arthur
Xena: Warrior Princess
Conan the Barbarian
Babylon 5
Firefly
Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
Earthsea
Discworld
Excalibur
Rain Wild Chronicles

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