A Galaxy Not So Far Away

It's Tuesday, which means it's time for new books! Gary and Becca discuss the events coming up for the week, and then diving into a couple of new titles that've just been released. Other topics discussed include, but aren't limited to: upcoming recordings, Thrawn, Blaseball, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Kylo Ren.

Events This Week:

Wednesday, September 23rd: Jason Offutt, in conversation with Mark Broe

Thursday, September 24th: Rudy Ruiz and Charlie Lovett

Friday, September 25th: YA Book Club

Monday, September 28th: Jim Butcher

New This Week:

The Ressurection of Fulgencio Ramirez by Rudy Ruiz

Escaping Dreamland by Charlie Lovett

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds

The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi

Funeral for a Friend by Brian Freeman

Well Played by Jen DeLuca

Maya and the Rising Dark by Rena Barron

And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots

Miss Meteor by Tehlor Kay Mejia and Anna-Marie McLemore

Vampires Never Get Old by Zoraida Cordova and Natalie C. Parker

Little Bird: The Fight for Elder's Hope by Darcy Van Poelgeest and

What We're Reading:

Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn

The Rise of Kylo Ren by Charles Soule and Will Sliney

Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons

Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

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Today's episode is all about time travel! Gary is very excited to be joined by Becca, Nick, and Jenni to talk about their favorite bits of time travel media. Check the description below for all our recommendations. Be warned, there are spoilers for several of the stories and films we mention during this episode!

Our book recommendations:

The Time Machine by HG Wells

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

This Is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Recursion by Blake Crouch

Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

The Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders

Other time travel media:

Back to the Future

Life is Strange

Prince of Persia

The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time

Terminator

Inuyasha

Your Name

Millennium Actress

The Lake House

Early Edition

Avengers: Endgame

Doctor Strange

Dark

The Prisoner of Azkaban

About Time

Donnie Darko

Butterfly Effect

Futurama

Kate and Leopold

The Knight Before Christmas

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

Groundhog's Day

Palm Springs

Russian Doll

Doctor Who

Steven Universe

Midnight in Paris

An American Pickle

Encino Man

What we're reading:

Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn

The Last to See Her by Courtney Evan Tate

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Don't Turn Out the Lights by Jonathan Maberry

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Marcia Machado

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

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We're halfway through September, and we're still swamped with events! Becca and Gary have lots to discuss, from events and books, to special Patreon exclusives! Check the link below to pledge today!

Events This Week:

Tuesday, September 15th: Lee Child

Wednesday, September 16th: The Deadly Hours Virtual Panel

Thursday, September 17th: Kami Garcia & Gabriel Picolo

Saturday, September 19th: Joe Abercrombie

Monday, September 21st: August Norman, in conversation with Glen Erik Hamilton

New This Week:

The Nicotine Chronicles edited by Lee Child

The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Lionhearts by Nathan Makaryk

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro

Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson

Don't Look for Me by Wendy Walker

The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah

Total Power by Kyle Mills

The Orphan of Cemetery Hill by Hester Fox

The Magic Misfits: The Fourth Suit by Neil Patrick Harris

No Place for Monsters by Kory Merritt

What We're Reading:

Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn

Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons

Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

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It's a relaxing week here at Mysterious Galaxy, with only a handful of upcoming events after a few weeks of daily shenanigans! Becca and Gary are here to walk you through our events before diving into some of the fantastic new titles now on our shelves!

Events This Week:

Thursday, September 10th: Jo Kaplan

Friday, September 11th: Julian Winters, in conversation with CB Lee

Sunday, September 13th: Romance Book Club

New This Week:

It Will Just Be Us by Jo Kaplan

The Summer of Everything by Julian Winters

One by One by Ruth Ware

Shadows in Death by J.D. Robb

The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves

The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk

The Other Side of the Sky by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Divergence by CJ Cherryh

Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich

Dragon Slayers by Lisa McMann

The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart

Before She Was Helen by Caroline Cooney

The Memory of Babel by Christelle Dabos

Lights on Wonder Rock by David Litchfield

When Villains Rise by Rebecca Schaeffer

Charming as a Verb by Ben Philippe

Iron Heart by Nina Varela

Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston

The Barren Grounds by David A. Robertson

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It's a relatively quiet week this week! Jenni and Kylie are here to educate Gary on the topic of historical fiction, what qualifies and what doesn't, and they both provide an incredible number of recommendations. Check out the list below for links to any of the books talked about in the episode!

Recommendations:

The Scarlet Pimpernell by Baroness Orczy

Taliesin by Stephen R. Lawhead

Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Prestige by Christopher Priest

The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson

1632 by Eric Flint

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik

As I Darken by Kiersten White

City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Somewhere in Time by by Richard Matheson

The Memory Painter by Gwendolyn Womack

The Fortune Teller by Gwendolyn Womack

Possession by A.S. Byatt

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal

Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Circe by Madeline Miller

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole

A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

The Book of Night Women by Marlon James

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

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It's a brand new month, which means Gary and Becca have a bunch of new titles to discuss, but first, we've got a week chock-full of events!

Events This Week:

Tuesday, September 1st:Jonathan Maberry

Wednesday, September 2nd: Tori Eldridge, in conversation with Jonathan Maberry

Thursday, September 3rd: Alexis Daria, in conversation with Christina Lauren

Friday, September 4th: Katy Rose Pool, in conversation with Amanda Foody

Saturday, September 5th: Liz Climo Picture Book Panel

Monday, September 7th: Kacey Ezell & Griffin Barber

New This Week:

Don't Turn Out the Lights, edited by Jonathan Maberry

The Ninja's Blade by Tori Eldridge

As the Shadow Rises by Katy Rose Pool

Queen of Volts by Amanda Foody

Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising by Timothy Zahn

Fangs by Sarah Andersen

All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny

Blood & Honey by Shelby Mahurin

A Killing Frost by Seanan McGuire

The Shadow Crosser by JC Cervantes

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Dog Man: Grime and Punishment by Dav Pilkey

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There's lots and lots of events this week, so we jump right into it in this episode! Stay tuned for information about Independent Bookstore Day and this year's virtual San Diego Book Crawl!

Events This Week:

Tuesday, August 25th: Kevin Hearn, in conversation with Delilah Dawson

Wednesday, August 26th: Jenn Lyons

Thursday, August 27th: Charlie Donlea

Saturday, August 29th: Independent Bookstore Day

Saturday, August 29th: Virtual San Diego Book Crawl

Sunday, August 30th: Middle Grade Virtual Panel

Monday, August 31st: Doug Engstron, in conversation with Christopher Brown

New This Week:

Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne

Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons

The Companion by Katie Alender

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, Illustrated by Charles Santore

Mr. Lemoncello and the Titanium Ticket by Chris Grabenstein

The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo

The Whitsun Daughters by Carrie Mesrobian

You Can Trust Me by Emma Rowley

The Second Sleep by Robert Harris

Squeeze Me by Carl Hiaasen

Ballistic Kiss by Richard Kadrey

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We've got another light episode this week! Becca and Gary are joined by Kelly, Kylie, and Victoria to talk about some of their favorite books that have come out in paperback this year. Make sure to check out the links below for all of our many, many recommendations!

Our Recommendations:

The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons

The Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio

Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter

Thrawn: Treason by Timothy Zahn

This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Wilder Girls by Rory Power

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

Wicked Fox by Kat Cho

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

You'd Be Mine by Erin Hahn

Mirage by Somaiya Daud

The Candle and the Flame by Nafizah Azad

Grey Bastards by Jonathan French

True Bastards by Jonathan French

Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen

DarkDawn by Jay Kristoff

Best Man Plan by Jaci Burton

At Death's Door by Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Courting Darkness by Robin LaFevers

Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

Nottingham by Nathan Makaryk

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It's Tuesday, which means we've got new books and new events to talk about! This week is full of events, so Gary and Becca get right into this week's lineup, before picking a few new titles to feature!

Events This Week:

Tuesday, August 18th: Jordan Ifueko, in conversation with Tomi Adeyemi

UPDATE: Due to personal reasons, Tomi Adeyemi is unavailable to participate in this event. Jordan Ifueko will be in conversation with Nic Stone!

Wednesday, August 19th: James Lee Burke, in conversation with Michael Koryta

Thursday, August 20th: L. Penelope, in conversation with K. Arsenault Rivera

Friday, August 21st: Brent Weeks, in conversation with Andrea Stewart

Friday, August 21st & Saturday, August 22nd: Book Your Summer Live

New This Week:

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

The Switch by Beth O'Leary

Blood Victory by Christopher Rice

Blood World by Chris Mooney

Drowned Country by Emily Tesh

Ignite the Sun by Hanna Howard

Little Deadly Secrets by Pamela Crane

Little Disasters by Sarah Vaughan

Noumenon Ultra by Marina J. Lostetter

The Second Mother by Jenny Milchman

The Search Party by Simon Lelic

The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell

Vicious Spirits by Kat Cho

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Becca and Gary are reunited this week! Becca is working on a super secret project for the store, and Gary's actually finishing books! Tune in to listen as they chat about this week's events, new titles, and a bunch of other shenanigans.

Events This Week:

Thursday, August 13th: Mary Cecilia Jackson, in conversation with Cynthia Salaysay

Saturday, August 15th: Bookstore Romance Day Virtual Panel

Sunday, August 16th: Lavie Tidhar, in conversation with Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Monday, August 17th: Nina Sadowsky, in conversation with Felicia D. Henderson

New This Week:

Cold to the Bone by Emery Hayes

By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar

A Private Cathedral by James Lee Burke

Choppy Water by Stuart Woods

No Offense by Meg Cabot

Then She Vanished by T. Jefferson Parker

Lois Lane and the Friendship Challenge by Grace Ellis & Brittney Williams

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasques Gilliland

Kiss My Cupcake by Helena Hunting

Star Wars: The Rise of Kylo Ren by Charles Soule & Will Sliney

The Key Lime Crime by Lucy Burdette

Mums and Mayhem by Amanda Flower

Cry of Metal & Bone by L. Penelope

Chasing Starlight by Teri Bailey Black

What We're Reading:

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

The Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio

Poe Dameron: Free Fall by Alex Segura

Shadow Fall by Alexander Freed

Hex Wives by Ben Blacker and Mirka Andolfo

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