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• Guest: Ursula Whitcher
• Title: Burning Bright by Melissa Scott
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• North Continent Ribbon
• Indra Das’s The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
• Fonda Lee's Green Bone books & game thereof w/ James Mendez Hodes
• Bruce Coville's Aliens Ate My Homework & Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
• Thomas Ha's Uncertain Sons
• Scott’s Trouble And Her Friends & Astreiant series, most recently Point of Hearts
• C.S. Lewis's Perelandra
• Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance novels
• Don Daglow’s Neverwinter Nights
• Commedia dell'arte
• The Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise
• LAN parties
• C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner books
• Arkardy Martine's Teixcalaan books
• Iain M. Banks' Player of Games
• Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
• Cameron Reed's Fortunate Fall
• Iain Softley’s Hackers
• William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy
• Charlie Jane Anders
• Bruce Sterling
• Michael Swanwick's Stations of the Tide
• Ursula's website & Bluesky