A Meal of Thorns

A Meal of Thorns 07 – THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT with Amal El-Mohtar


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Credits:

  • Guest: Amal El-Mohtar
  • Title: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
  • Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
  • Artwork by Rob Patterson
  • Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough


References:

  • Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
  • In Universes by Emmet North
  • The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
  • Amal’s review of those three novels
  • The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
  • The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone
  • Star Wars
  • Wicked problems
  • A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
  • The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
  • The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
  • Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang
  • The Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
  • Tony Gilroy’s Star Wars series Andor
  • The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
  • The sequels to Traitor Baru, The Monster Baru Cormorant & The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
  • Commedia dell’arte
  • Lee Mandelo's writing on Eve Sedwgick, paranoid & reparative reading
  • Kameron Hurley & Arkady Martine
  • Exordia by Seth Dickinson
  • The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies
  • Amal's next book, The River Has Roots
  • The ballad of The Two Sisters/The Bonny Swans
  • Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees


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