Fiction Fans

Your hosts absolutely loved the film noir, lesbian novella Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk, which you can tell by how distracted they get and how much they argue over vaguely related topics. They throw out a few comparisons, some more justified than others. Your hosts also discuss how expectations can change how readers feel about an ending (and then argue over their personal emotions surrounding the ending of this book).

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- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”
- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”

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Your hosts talk about the year including some changes to the podcast, reading metrics, and good old fashioned nostalgia. They give out some superlatives, like "best trash villain" and "best debut novel," both of which were, unfortunately, rigged.

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- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”

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In this episode, your hosts return to the Graven Trilogy by Essa Hansen to discuss Ethera Grave, the third and final book of the series. They lament the 18 month reading gap, debate what qualifies something to be “cthulu-esque,” and talk about how terrifying true belief is in a villain. They also debate minute details in the definitions of “science fiction” and “main character.” Some minds get blown by timeline shenanigans. Your hosts also delve into the myriad ways that Words can be Weird.

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- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”
- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”

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In this week's episode your hosts are joined by Sherwood Smith to talk about A Stranger to Command, prequel to Crown Duel and part of her Sartorias-Deles series. They talk about Sartorias-Deles as a whole and what it's like to finish such a long-spanning series (both in book time and in our time), an outsider's perspective of the now-familiar Marloven Military Academy, seeing a YA romance break up on the page, and edits to appease publishers in the early 2000s.

Find more from Sherwood

https://www.sherwoodsmith.net/ 

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- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”
- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”

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Your hosts are joined by Jennifer Donohue to discuss her debut novel Exit Ghost. They talk about witch girls, Hamlet, and witchy-girl Hamlet, along with self destructive characters, sympathetic characters, and prickly characters (and sometimes they're the same!). This episode also features a Wor-ds Are We-ird.

Find more from Jen

http://authorizedmusings.blogspot.com/ 

https://bsky.app/profile/authorizedmusings.bsky.social

https://twitter.com/AuthorizedMusin 

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- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”
- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”

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Your hosts discuss the first Young Adult novel on the Discworld, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. They takes a trip down memory lane to a brand new place, and talk about the various YA tropes that Pratchett plays with. Sara also takes us to the pet peeve corner where they try to come up with better alternatives to "male" and "female" as used in A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas.

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- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”
- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”

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Your hosts are joined by Ai Jiang to discuss her novelette I AM AI. They also talk about ghostwriting, Artificial Intelligence in art, and experimental work in genre fiction.

Find more from Ai here https://aijiang.ca/

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- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”
- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”

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Your hosts are joined by Adrian Gibson from SFFAddicts to discuss Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. They give Shelley some marketing advice a few years too late, rip into some 1970s editors with bad opinions and questionable facts, and debate both authorial intent and reader interpretations across centuries.



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Your hosts discuss The Last Hero, a Discworld fable written by Terry Pratchett and illustrated by Paul Kidby. They talk about its use of Discworld characters as fable archetypes and the various fun cameos that pop up, as well as how it examines the different aspects of heroing. They also go over some of their favorite illustrations from the book. This episode contains a retroactive pet peeve corner.

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- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”
- Josh Woodward for the use of “Electric Sunrise”

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Your hosts are joined by Suzan Palumbo to talk about her new collection of short fiction, Skin Thief. They discuss her inspiration from Trinidadian folklore, love of retellings, and the unique challenges of short fiction. She even gets Sara to admit that she might like gothic horror.

Find more from Suzan here:
https://suzanpalumbo.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/sillysyntax

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- Darkest Child by Kevin MacLeod

- Amarià for the use of “Sérénade à Notre Dame de Paris”

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