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Roundtable - Meridian Australis
Meridian Australis
11 episodes
4 months ago

Roundtable is dedicated to exploring classic novels from Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and other genres of speculative fiction, through an authorial lens. We aren't going to spend an hour giving a novel a rating out of 10, or complaining about our unfulfilled ships... probably. Our rotating cast of up-and-coming authors analyse and evaluate stories to identify what makes them tick, why we love them, and what other storytellers can learn from their successes and failures.


Roundtable is an extension of Meridian Australis, a Melbourne-based speculative fiction collective home to authors from all works of life, hoping to put Australia's best and brightest on the map. We're made and run by writers, for writers.


Hosted by Harvey Weir. Edited by Andrew Nathan Roberts. Original music by Andrew Nathan Roberts.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Roundtable is dedicated to exploring classic novels from Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and other genres of speculative fiction, through an authorial lens. We aren't going to spend an hour giving a novel a rating out of 10, or complaining about our unfulfilled ships... probably. Our rotating cast of up-and-coming authors analyse and evaluate stories to identify what makes them tick, why we love them, and what other storytellers can learn from their successes and failures.


Roundtable is an extension of Meridian Australis, a Melbourne-based speculative fiction collective home to authors from all works of life, hoping to put Australia's best and brightest on the map. We're made and run by writers, for writers.


Hosted by Harvey Weir. Edited by Andrew Nathan Roberts. Original music by Andrew Nathan Roberts.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Science Fiction
Episodes (11/11)
Roundtable - Meridian Australis
Kayla Morton Interview - Those Who Burn the Brightest, Queer Voices in Fiction, and Independent Publishing

Harvey is joined by Australian debut author Kayla Morton for a chat about Those Who Burn the Brightest, her first published novel. They discuss the ins and outs of the publishing process, industry twitter drama, queerness in fiction and much more.


Those Who Burn the Brightest is available for purchase now. What are you waiting for?



Hosted by Harvey Weir. Edited by Andrew Nathan Roberts. Original music by Andrew Nathan Roberts.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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4 months ago
55 minutes 42 seconds

Roundtable - Meridian Australis
T. R. Napper Interview - 36 Streets, The Escher Man, and the publishing industry
In this very special episode of Roundtable, Harvey is joined by Arden Baker to interview Australian cyberpunk aficionado, T. R. Napper. Tim Napper is an acclaimed speculative fiction author known for his deeply immersive and thought-provoking science fiction. His writing is infused with a rich understanding of human complexity and global perspectives. We talked to him about his Aurealis-winning novel 36 Streets, his newly-released passion project The Escher Man, and the ins and outs of the industry.

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11 months ago
57 minutes 53 seconds

Roundtable - Meridian Australis
Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Harvey is joined by Matt to discuss Susanna Clarke's 2021 novel, Piranesi. We analyse and argue over the text's compelling narrative voice, its sense of mystery, and its exploration of the nature of consciousness and memory.


Hosted by Harvey Weir. Edited by Andrew Nathan Roberts. Original music by Andrew Nathan Roberts.


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1 year ago
52 minutes 56 seconds

Roundtable - Meridian Australis
Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

Guest host Arden Baker is joined by Kaz / A. M. Bueman and Ciar to discuss Ann Leckie's 2013 award-winning novel Ancillary Justice, the first in a trilogy of high-concept space opera novels that explore colonialism, gender and consciousness. Listen as we disagree on the book's thematic implications of colonisation, gender and linguistics.


Edited by Andrew Nathan Roberts. Original music by Andrew Nathan Roberts.


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1 year ago
1 hour 6 minutes 53 seconds

Roundtable - Meridian Australis
The Sierra and The Transmogrification of Ordinary Things

Harvey is joined by fellow Meridian Australis members Cat and Jason, to discuss their stories The Sierra and The Transmogrification of Ordinary Things, which are featured in the AUSTRAL Anthology. AUSTRAL is the self-published passion project of Meridian Australis, a collection of speculative fiction stories written by young and up-and-coming Melbourne writers.


This episode is the second in a series designed to explore the inner workings of Meridian Australis' authors. It is intended to be listened to after you've read the authors' stories.


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1 year ago
25 minutes 35 seconds

Roundtable - Meridian Australis
Canang Sari and Synecdoche - AUSTRAL Anthology Special

Harvey is joined by fellow Meridian Australis members Arden and Will, to discuss their stories Canang Sari and Synecdoche, which are featured in the AUSTRAL Anthology. AUSTRAL is the self-published passion project of Meridian Australis, a collection of speculative fiction stories written by young and up-and-coming Melbourne writers.


This episode is the first in a series designed to explore the inner workings of Meridian Australis' authors. It is intended to be listened to after you've read the authors' stories.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1 year ago
26 minutes 16 seconds

Roundtable - Meridian Australis
Lanny - Max Porter
Harvey is joined by returning guest Eddy to wax poetic on Max Porter's Lanny, a beautiful novel that experiments with structure, form and point of view. We explore the use of magical realism, the melding of modernity and folklore, and the touching empathy present between the pages of this phenomenal text.

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1 year ago
1 hour 8 minutes 51 seconds

Roundtable - Meridian Australis
The Traitor Baru Cormorant - Seth Dickinson
This episode, guest host Arden is joined by Dom and Kaz to discuss Seth Dickinson’s debut novel The Traitor Baru Cormorant. The three authors wax lyrical about what makes Cormorant a special favourite among Meridian Australis members.

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1 year ago
1 hour 13 minutes 48 seconds

Roundtable - Meridian Australis
This Is How You Lose the Time War - Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar
This episode, Harvey is joined by Kaz Beuman and Jason Schembri to discuss This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. We go back and forth expressing our unfiltered adoration for this Nebula-and-Hugo-winning 2019 novella, exploring the power of melodrama and intentional world-building in modern sci-fi. As always, a supplementary essay breaking down the book's key techniques is available at meridianaustralis.au/roundtable.

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1 year ago
1 hour 4 minutes 52 seconds

Roundtable - Meridian Australis
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Harvey is joined by Edward Hodge and Matt Tynan to discuss Daniel Keyes' 1966 science fiction novel Flowers for Algernon. We talked about the book's almost timelessly-cutting representation of disability, mental health and social hierarchies, and delved into what makes it so emotionally affecting. A supplementary essay dissecting these themes on a deeper level is available on our website, meridianaustralis.au

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1 year ago
56 minutes 57 seconds

Roundtable - Meridian Australis
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Harvey sat down with fellow authors William Rotor, Andrew Nathan Roberts, Arden Baker and Ishan Morris-Gray to discuss Dan Simmons' 1989 space opera Hyperion. With a book written in six stories from different narrators in a style directly referential to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, we took the opportunity to discuss the key features and themes of each tale, the novel as a whole, and some of our favourite (and least favourite) parts.

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1 year ago
1 hour 9 minutes 16 seconds

Roundtable - Meridian Australis

Roundtable is dedicated to exploring classic novels from Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and other genres of speculative fiction, through an authorial lens. We aren't going to spend an hour giving a novel a rating out of 10, or complaining about our unfulfilled ships... probably. Our rotating cast of up-and-coming authors analyse and evaluate stories to identify what makes them tick, why we love them, and what other storytellers can learn from their successes and failures.


Roundtable is an extension of Meridian Australis, a Melbourne-based speculative fiction collective home to authors from all works of life, hoping to put Australia's best and brightest on the map. We're made and run by writers, for writers.


Hosted by Harvey Weir. Edited by Andrew Nathan Roberts. Original music by Andrew Nathan Roberts.


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.