August 2024 saw the World Science Fiction Convention, held in Glasgow, Scotland. Phil stayed at home, but intrepid traveller Colin crossed a continent and an ocean to experience his first Worldcon. Find out how he got on - and how Phil and Colin somehow managed not to meet, despite both being in England at the same time...

Also in today's show, a special quiz from friend of the podcast Peter Kuskie (last seen in episode 11), and our usual round up of all good things science fictional.

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The first women to appear (as "soloists") on the ballot for science fiction's Hugo Awards were Zenna Henderson and Pauline Ashwell, in 1959. (Catherine L. Moore had appeared on an earlier ballot, but for a collaboration with Henry Kuttner.)

Fearing that Henderson and Ashwell might be drifting into obscurity, Colin and Phil set out to review their Hugo-nominated novelettes:

Zenna Henderson's "Captivity" - find it here: https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v014n06_1958-06_PDF/page/n3/mode/2up

Pauline Ashwell's "Unwillingly to School" - find it here: https://archive.org/details/sim_astounding-science-fiction_1958-01_60_5/page/8/mode/2up

We also have the obligatory fiendish sci-fi quiz, and our usual round-up of recommendations of past/present/future SF.

For full show notes, check out our blog - https://101sf.blogspot.com/2024/08/zennas-people-and-paulines-lizzie.html

We're back - and it's the time to review this year's Hugo-nominated short stories!

The Hugos are the awards given by members of the annual World Science Fiction Convention (whose numbers this year will include our very own Colin, who will be attending the worldcon in Glasgow).

Also in today's episode, we have a quiz. Sort of. See if you can get it before Phil has a clue what's going on...

And there's our usual round up of SF past, present and future.

For the full show notes, check out our blog:

https://101sf.blogspot.com/2024/07/hugos-where-i-goes-episode-44-of-podcast.html