Hello award nominators!
Thanks for stopping by. I’m Alasdair Stuart and I had a very big year. This post lists it all, including date ranges for episodes and issues along with a few personal favorites. And continuing on from last year, pay or affiliation is also listed.
Thanks so much for your consideration.
Alasdair Stuart
Eligible for Best Writer
The Full Lid (Unpaid)
Eligible for Best Fanzine
My free weekly pop culture newsletter, edited by Marguerite Kenner. Guest writers in 2020 include Margaret Dunlap, Andrew Reid, David Steffen, Matt Wallace and Chloë Yates.
Mailchimp refuses to host more than six months’ worth of archive, but you can download a ZIP file of the complete 2020 issues in PDF (link; 200+mb). For online browsing, issues between 4th September 2020 and 18th December 2020 are currently accessible.
Issues I’d highlight (PDFs):
- 7th February – Admiral Clancy Regrets; The Tundra Project; Adam Adamant Lives Again; Adventure! (PodUK)
- 6th March – Fate’s Countermeasure; Al Dente: Yeastie Boys; Bog Bodies; Escape Pod Onboard Information Card
- 13th March – RE: Multiple Temporal Incursions on The Future and Correct Cargo Safety Procedures; Procedures; The Many Faces of 007; Catching Some
- 7th August – A Note About Convention Volunteering; Land of the Long White Cloud; The Shadows, Out of Time; Fringe Science; Facing Backward on the Rocket
- 2nd October – The Three Holmes Problem; Building a Better Big Guy
- 9th October – Talking in Circles; E pur si muove: The World Beyond the Walking Dead; Lytton
- 30th October – Circles; The Ferryman; Unboxed; A Song for the End; Bitter Rook: Family Business; Chesterberg
- 4th December – Thirteen Storeys; Knuckledust; I Want the Stars; Mermaids Monthly
- 11th December – All I Wanted for Christmas was Cyberpunk; Babyteeth; Echo Sector
The Full Lid Plus ($490 in 2020)
My subscription-based substack compliment to The Full Lid. Here’s a free post I released in July 2020.
Other Fan Writing
- Personal Canons: Warren Ellis (Donated)
My piece in Sarah Gailey’s series discussing the culture that made us who we are and in my case, the complicated place it now occupies. - Hollywood Kawoosh on a Vancouver Budget (£300; paywall)
An oral history of Stargate SG1’s early special effects triumphs from an interview with FX Maestro John Gajdecki.
Escape Pod (I co-own EA, Escape Pod’s publisher)
Eligible for Best Semiprozine
I’m the host of Escape Pod’s Flashback episodes, bringing new perspective and commentary to classic episodes from the show’s 15 year history.
- Escape Pod 735: Boris’s Bar
- Escape Pod 736: Techno-Rat
- Escape Pod 737: To the Knife-Cold Stars
- Escape Pod 739: The Nightmare Lights of Mars
- Escape Pod 740: Women of Our Occupation
- Escape Pod 741: Repo
- Escape Pod 742: Them Ships
- Escape Pod 744: The Evening, the Morning, and the Night
- Escape Pod 745: Immersion
- Escape Pod 746: The ’76 Goldwater Dime
PseudoPod (I co-own EA, PseuodPod’s publisher)
Eligible for Best Semiprozine
I hosted roughly 80% of PseudoPod’s 2020 episodes, which run from episode 683 on January 3rd to episode 737 on December 25th. I’d like to highlight these in particular:
- PseudoPod 707: Crybaby
- PseudoPod 728: Teeth Long and Sharp as Blades
- PseudoPod 729: What We Talk About When We Talk About Cooking Country and The Halloween Parade (annotated transcript of the Halloween parade)
- PseudoPod 730: The Smell of the Night in the Basement
- PseudoPod 732: Devil Gonna Catch You in the Corners
SciFiBulletin.com (Unpaid)
My usual array of television and movie reviews, with a particular focus on The Walking Dead franchise.
- Fear The Walking Dead Season 6
- The Walking Dead Season 10
- Walking Dead: World Beyond
- The War of the Worlds
- Underwater
- Doctor Who Escape Hunt: A Dalek Awakens
Fox Spirit Books (£15 per column)
- Sixty Six Percent Gradient (7th March)
Currency conversion’s ugly reckoning across the post-Brexit Atlantic - Capitalism Doesn’t Care About Us (23rd August)
Covid-19’s impact on international media distribution - The Four Kinds of Fire (31st December)
Reflections on 2020
ConZealand Fringe (Unpaid)
Eligible for Best Related Work
I was part of the team who put together the GMT/EST-centred fringe programming for CoNZealand in August 2020. This was a fan project, designed to complement and celebrate the first digital Worldcon.
Eligible for Best Related Work
Co-written with Mur Lafferty, an epic three-part virtual race set in outer space.
Welcome to SolFleet! As a member of a salvage crew, you explore the remains of spaceships, recover abandoned supplies, information, and sometimes people. But when a ship missing for a decade emerges from hiding, you might have bigger problems than meeting your salvage quota.
The Black Archives 50: The Day of the Doctor
Eligible for Best Related Work
The Black Archive is a series of academic longform essays on specific Doctor Who stories. I had the pleasure of writing about Day of the Doctor, the show’s 50th anniversary episode. In it I bring together a lot of the strings of my knowledge base: magic and theatricality, the postmodernist approach to structure as fiction and fiction as structure, 1980s BBC Shakespeare, and (in an early draft) pro wrestling narrative logic, all combine in this celebration of a celebration.
Read reviews in SFB and We Are Cult
