As harvest-time descends and pumpkin-spice stormclouds gather on the horizon, John E. O. Stevens, Fred Kiesche and Jeff Patterson wrap up their Summer sojourn through the labyrinthine innards of the publishing industry with Joe Monti of Saga Press. Joe educates the Hoarsemen on the pitfalls of book buying-and-selling, forecasts the future of space opera, and ponders if Grimdark is really a thing.

After a chat on trends and tribulations, the discussion turns to culture consumed.

Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens and Jeff Patterson with Joe Monti

Show Notes! Show Notes! Here are the Show Notes!

Silver on the Road (The Devil’s West), by aura Anne Gilman

Cold Iron (The Malorum Gates), by Stina Leicht

Our Lady of the Ice, by Cassandra Rose Clarke

Six-Gun Snow White, by Catherynne M. Valente

Sorcerer to the Crown, by Zen Cho

Godzilla in Hell #2, by Bob Eggleton

The Bazaar: Markets and Merchants of the Islamic World, by Walter M. Weiss

The Making of Stanley Kurbrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Piers Bizony

And Here are the More Show Notes!

2015: The Year in Books

2015: The Year in Shorts

Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, edited by Nisi Shawl and Bill Campbell

A Borrowed Man, by Gene Wolfe

The Big Time, by Fritz Leiber Jr.

The Complete Griselda, by Oliver Dickinson

Pelquin’s Comet, by Ian Whates

String Divers, by Ashley Wood, Chris Ryall, and Nelson Daniel

The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Ward Radcliff

Clockwork Lives, by Kevin J. Anderson and Neil Peart

Islands in the Sky, by Arthur C. Clarke

Dolphin Island, by Arthur C. Clarke

B.P.R.D., by Mike Mignola

Sept Guerrieres, by Michael Le Galli and Francis Manapul

Spider-Verse, by Dan Slott

Capclave 2015