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News: Enhanced Version of Aural Delights 00: 27 Coming Up This Week 02:45 Sofanauts Announcment Peter Watts 04:28 Fact Article: 90 Seconds Megan Argo 07:02 Main Fiction: Boatman's Holiday by Jeffrey Ford 09:18 Fact Article: Science News by J. J. Campanella 54:03 Closing Remarks: Next Week by Tony C. Smith 01:14:55 Narrators: Peter Piazza Cover Art: Brian Woods

Coming Up This Week 00:10 Sofanauts Announcment 01:50 Fact Article: Autumn Rain by David J. Williams 04:00 Transcriber Update by Dee Cunniffe 09:19 Main Fiction: It Takes Two by Nicola Griffith 12:25 Fact Article: Film Talk by Rod Barnett 01:20:00 Fact Article: The Obsavation Deck by Cheryl Morgan 01:31:00 Closing Remarks: Tony C. Smith 01:35:00 Narrators: Chrstie Yant

Aural Delights No 136 Hugo Nomination Special Pt 3 covering the Hugo Awards Voter pack. With guests: Jonathan Strahan Cheryl Morgan

Fact Article: Transcribers Project by Robyn Bradshaw 03:30 Transcriber Blues by David Bradshaw Promo: The Neutron Flow Podcast 14:23 Main Fiction: A Brief Guide To Other Histories by Paul J. McAuley 16:00 Fact Article: Doc Savage by J.J. Campanella 01:16:30 StarShipSofa Interrogations Kristine Kathryn Rusch Narrators: Paul Caggegi

[polldaddy poll=3156087] Fact Article: God Like Machines by Jonathan Strahan 03:30 Main Fiction: Risqueman by Mike Wood 11:30 Fact Looking Back At SF History by Amy H. Sturgis 01:16:30 Main Fiction: Hall Of Mirrors by Fredric Brown 01:30:48 Narrators: Peter Caveall, Jack Calverley Galaxy Press

Welcome to this Arthur C. Clarke Award Special carried out by Cheryl Morgan for StarShipSofa. As part of Cheryl Morgan’s on going series for StarShipSofa called The Observation Deck, Cheryl carried out a number of interviews with guests at the award ceremony. This includes an interview with the eventual winner – China Mieville.

Fact Article: Science News by J.J. Campanella 05:00 Main Fiction: The Ray-Gun: A Love Story by James Alan Gardner 24:00 Fact Article: Fiction Crawler 9 by Matthew Sanborn Smith 01:19:00 Art Cover Audio Intro by S.P Wilson Narrators: Ray Sizemore Art Cover by S.P. Wilson Links to Fiction Crawler: The Man Who Lost the Sea By Theodore Sturgeon The Blue Wonder by Chris Kammerud A Logic Named Joe by Murray Leinster Light of Other Days by Bob Shaw The Guns of Shadow Valley by David Wachter, James Andrew Clark and Thomas Mauer Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality with Air-Planes" by Benjamin Rosenbaum by Benjamin Rosenbaum

Editorial: Goodbye Steve by Tony C Smith 03:33 Fact Article: Observation Lounge by Cheryl Morgan 07:00 Promo: The Gamma Quadrant Podcast 19:00 Main Fiction: Madonna of the Maquiladora by Gregory Frost 25:00 Narrators: J.J. Campanella

Editorial: We Are Nominated For A Hugo by Tony C Smith 02:33 Short Fiction: Hong's Bluff by William F. Wu 27:00 Fact Article: Looking Back at SF History by Amy H. Sturgis 32:00 StarShipSofa Interrogations: John Kessel Main Fiction: Every Angel Is Terrifying by John Kessel 37:00 Fact Article: Transcriber Editorial by Diane Severson Narrators: Patrick Scott, Geoff Michelli

Aural Delights No 129 Hugo Nomination Special Pt 2 covering the Hugo Nominations live with guests: Amy H. Sturgis Jonathan Strahan Grant Stone Lawrence Santoro The 2010 Hugo and John W. Campbell Award Nominees BEST NOVEL (699 nominating ballots) Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (Tor) The City & The City by China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK) Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra) Wake by Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Penguin; Gollancz; Analog) The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) BEST NOVELLA (375 nominating ballots) "Act One" by Nancy Kress (Asimov's 3/09) The God Engines by John Scalzi (Subterranean) "Palimpsest" by Charles Stross (Wireless) Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow (Tachyon) "Vishnu at the Cat Circus" by Ian McDonald (Cyberabad Days) The Women of Nell Gwynne's by Kage Baker (Subterranean) BEST NOVELETTE (402 nominating ballots) "Eros, Philia, Agape" by Rachel Swirsky (Tor.com 3/09) "The Island" by Peter Watts (The New Space Opera 2) "It Takes Two" by Nicola Griffith (Eclipse Three) "One of Our Bastards is Missing" by Paul Cornell (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction: Volume Three) "Overtime" by Charles Stross (Tor.com 12/09) "Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast" by Eugie Foster (Interzone 2/09) BEST SHORT STORY (432 nominating ballots) "The Bride of Frankenstein" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's 12/09) "Bridesicle" by Will McIntosh (Asimov’s 1/09) "The Moment" by Lawrence M. Schoen (Footprints) "Non-Zero Probabilities" by N.K. Jemisin (Clarkesworld 9/09) "Spar" by Kij Johnson (Clarkesworld 10/09) BEST RELATED WORK (259 nominating ballots) Canary Fever: Reviews by John Clute (Beccon) Hope-In-The-Mist: The Extraordinary Career and Mysterious Life of Hope Mirrlees by Michael Swanwick (Temporary Culture) The Inter-Galactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction by Farah Mendlesohn (McFarland) On Joanna Russ edited by Farah Mendlesohn (Wesleyan) The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of SF Feminisms by Helen Merrick (Aqueduct) This is Me, Jack Vance! (Or, More Properly, This is "I") by Jack Vance (Subterranean) BEST GRAPHIC STORY (221 nominating ballots) Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? Written by Neil Gaiman; Pencilled by Andy Kubert; Inked by Scott Williams (DC Comics) Captain Britain And MI13. Volume 3: Vampire State Written by Paul Cornell; Pencilled by Leonard Kirk with Mike Collins, Adrian Alphona and Ardian Syaf (Marvel Comics) Fables Vol 12: The Dark Ages Written by Bill Willingham; Pencilled by Mark Buckingham; Art by Peter Gross & Andrew Pepoy, Michael Allred, David Hahn; Colour by Lee Loughridge & Laura Allred; Letters by Todd Klein (Vertigo Comics) Girl Genius, Volume 9: Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm Written by Kaja and Phil Foglio; Art by Phil Foglio; Colours by Cheyenne Wright (Airship Entertainment) Schlock Mercenary: The Longshoreman of the Apocalypse Written and Illustrated by Howard Tayler BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION - LONG FORM (541 nominating ballots) Avatar Screenplay and Directed by James Cameron (Twentieth Century Fox) District 9 Screenplay by Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell; Directed by Neill Blomkamp (TriStar Pictures) Moon Screenplay by Nathan Parker; Story by Duncan Jones; Directed by Duncan Jones (Liberty Films) Star Trek Screenplay by Robert Orci & Alex Kurtzman; Directed by J.J. Abrams (Paramount) Up Screenplay by Bob Peterson & Pete Docter; Story by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, & Thomas McCarthy; Directed by Bob Peterson & Pete Docter (Disney/Pixar) BEST DRAMATIC PRESENTATION - SHORT FORM (282 nominating ballots) Doctor Who: "The Next Doctor" Written by Russell T Davies; Directed by Andy Goddard (BBC Wales) Doctor Who: "Planet of the Dead" Written by Russell T Davies & Gareth Roberts; Directed by James Strong (BBC Wales)

Aural Delights No 128 Hugo Nomination Special Pt 1 with guest reporter Cheryl Morgan. This interview took place 30 mins before the Hugo 2010 Nomination announcements.

Editorial: What Happened to Me This Week by Tony C Smith 02:33 Flash Fiction: iThink by Ken MacLeod 27:00 Fact Article: StarShipSofa Vol 2 Update by Dee Cunniffe 32:00 Main Fiction: The Beautiful And The Damned By F. Scott Fitzgerald by Tanith Lee 37:00 Narrators: J.J. Campanella, Geoff Michelli Cover Art: Paul Caggegi

Editorial: The Interviews by Tony C Smith 02:33 Fact Article: Film Talk by Rod Barnett 05:00 Main Fiction: Always by Karen Joy Fowler 16:00 Narrator: Amy H Sturgis

Editorial: Thank You by Tony C Smith 02:33 Fact Article: Science News by J.J. Campanella 05:00 Promo: Galactic Suburbia Main Fiction: Lady Witherspoon's Solution by James Morrow 24:00 Narrator: Peter Seaton-Clarke & Nicola Seaton Clarke

Guest Editorial: Fanzines by Mur Lafferty 02:33 StarShipSofa Interrogations: Gene Wolfe 08:50 Main Fiction: Bridesicle by Will McIntosh 01:00:00 Fact Article: Observation Deck by Cheryl Morgan 01:47:00 Narrator: Amy H. Sturgis Bridesicle by Will McIntosh is a nominee for Nebula Best Short Story 2009