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It was fun! It was windy! Lori and Kevin tell all.
Boring warning: at about 17:45, you're gonna hear like 5 minutes of voice notes about dogs. Feel free to turn off the podcast.
Eating noise warning: if you make it this far, at 22:05-22:25, Lori will loudly eat a tea cake, so skip that if you can't stand mouth noises.
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Well, what else were we supposed to call it?
This month we read Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep, suggested by listener Raj. Thanks, Raj!
Amy is DM.
Music by Pets of Belonging
Links:
Jo Walton's review
Being gay and doing crime, all across space and time!
Our long-awaited, most cursed episode is finally here. Requested by Haley and Raj.
Lori is DM.
Music by Pets of Belonging
Links:
Strange Horizons Review - Adri Joy
Interview with the authors
The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Entirely Understand
The 12 Days of Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood
Over five years ago, we test drove this thing. It's rough, but we hope you'll enjoy it!
For various reasons, we had to push back our planned schedule. This is How You Lose the Time War will drop in August, followed by A Fire Upon the Deep in September.
Another attack of the clones. We liked it!
DM: Haley
CW/TW: rape, sexual abuse, transphobia, intersexphobia, fatphobia
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Links:
The Extractivism of Setting and the Traitor's Text - Vajra Chandrasekera
Jo Walton's Review
This month we read Arthur C. Clarke's perfectly fine novel, The Fountains of Paradise. It is fine! And it has an admittedly banger ending, if you can stand the first 200 pages. Recommended, maybe?
Amy is DM.
Music by Pets of Belonging
Links:
Wikipedia - Sigiriya
Sculpture and Poetry of Sigiriya
We discuss the hottest film romance in genre fiction: Twilight! We love it.
DM: Lori
CW/TW: It's Twilight.
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This month we read Philip José Farmer's extended fart joke The Wind Whales of Ishmael. This episode is kinda ridiculous, which is fitting for a book which is also kinda ridiculous. We chatted for 15 minutes before we got into the book, as follows:
0:00-7:00ish - general chat and update on Haley's fava beans, as requested by listener Amber 7:00ish-14:30 - tasting and discussion of Coca-Cola Spiced, which is not very good 14:30-15:30 - an anecdote from Haley's college radio days 15:30-end - an actual episode of Hugo, Girl! the podcast
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This month we read Mary Doria Russell's divisive novel The Sparrow. It's got a bit of everything - Jesuits, space travel, food, friendship, sexual assault, victim-blaming, and child murder. Amy is DM.
Did we mention trigger warning? Yikes!
CW/TW: see description above, and it's really serious so skip this one if you need to! We like you!
By the way, we did a LOT of chatting at the top of this one, so skip to about the 12 minute mark if you want to get straight into the book discussion.
Friend of the pod Anne joined us and quizzed us on past episodes! We also discussed our favorite reads of 2023 and what we're looking forward to reading in 2024.
Happy New Year, and thanks for listening!
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