October 21, 2020

Our Speculative Fiction Recs with Virginia Soenksen, Author of the GENETICS CHRONICLES Series

49 minutes

In this Unabridged podcast episode, we're talking all things speculative fiction with Virginia Soenksen, author of The Titan Strain, The Osiris Contingency, and The Ragnarok Resolution. We talk with her about her amazing science fiction series, and then we all recommend books that we've loved within the speculative fiction realm. We wrap up our episode with some favorite museum recommendations in honor of Virginia's role as an art historian and an associate director of a museum.

Bookish Check-in

Ashley - The Toni Morrison Book Club by Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Cassandra Jackson, and Piper Kendrix Williams

Jen - Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X

Sara - Dusti Bowling’s Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

Virginia - Janella Angeles's Where Dreams Descend

Featured Books

Virginia Soenksen’s The Titan Strain (The Genetics Chronicles Book 1) - See Ashley's review!

Virginia Soenksen’s The Osiris Conspiracy (The Genetics Chronicles Book 2)

Virginia Soenksen’s The Ragnarok Resolution (The Genetics Chronicles Book 3)

Our Speculative Fiction Recs

Ashley - Stephen Graham Jones’s The Only Good Indians

Jen - N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became (check out Jen's review!)

Sara - Nancy Farmer’s The House of the Scorpion

Virginia - V.E. Schwab’s Vicious

Mentioned in Episode

V. E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (check out Jen's review here!)

Tommy Orange's There There (Listen to our book club episode, or join our Facebook book club discussion for late October by requesting to join here!)

The National Museum of Natural History

Give Me One - Favorite Museum

Ashley - the Louvre

Jen - Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sara - Air and Space Museum

Ginny - Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

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