SFF Yeah!

Jenn and guest Kim Ukura discuss SF/F comfort reading, talk about Locus Award Finalists and Percy Jackson casting, pay their respects to Patricia McKillip, and more.

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Locus Awards Finalists

Percy Jackson on Disney+ Casting Update (and a statement from Riordan) [Hollywood Reporter]

RIP Patricia McKillip [Locus]

RIP George Pérez [NPR]

The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir

®evolution series by Stephanie Saulter

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills Cycle

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

The Grisha Trilogy (and subsequent books) by Leigh Bardugo

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

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This week, Sharifah discusses some YA sci-fi/fantasy.

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The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (cw: suicide)

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (cw: rape, genocide, child death)

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss cyberpunk, adaptation news about Wicked and Dune, dig into all things Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, and more.

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Reimagining the future of cyberpunk [Wired]

Books like Cyberpunk 2077 [Book Riot]

Wicked adaptation news [Variety]

South Korea is making a floating city! [Newsweek]

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven on HBO Max [IMDB]

Ableism in Station Eleven [Salon]

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This week, Jenn discusses sci-fi and fantasy with work-place romance subplots.

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The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner (cw: addiction & drug use, death by “heroic” suicide)

Chilling Effect series by Valerie Valdes

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss the Hugo Awards finalists, the Interview with a Vampire teaser, additional favorites from early 2022, and more.

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Hugo Finalists For 2022! [Book Riot]

The Nimona Movie Is Saved [EW]

2021 Aurealis Awards Shortlist [Aurealis Awards]

Interview with a Vampire Teaser [Bleeding Cool] (Teaser on YouTube)

When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo 

Light Years From Home by Mike Chen (cw: dementia, loss of a parent)

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu (cw: partner abuse; suicide)

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (cw: mention of suicide)

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This week, Sharifah discusses rompy SFF backlist that promise a good time.

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Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss Lambda Literary Award finalists, Addams Family and Hocus Pocus adaptation news, favorites that came out in early 2022, and more.

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More of J.R.R. Tolkien’s art posted [Smithsonian Mag]

That piece about Fanworks and the Tolkien Estate [Silmarillion Writers Guild]

Lambda Literary Award Finalists for LGBTQ Speculative Fiction [File 770]

Wednesday Addams is getting her own series [Variety]

Hocus Pocus sequel gets three Drag Race superstars [Them]

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

The Way Spring Arrives And Other Stories, edited by Regina Kanyu Wang, Yu Chen

The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta (cw: emotional abuse)

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (cw: child death)

Shout-Outs: 

Aliette De Bodard’s Obsidian and Blood series

Rebecca Roanhorse’s Black Sun

Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s Gods of Jade and Shadow

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This week, Jenn discusses older favorites from authors with upcoming new releases.

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The Book of M by Peng Shepherd

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

Payback’s A Witch by Lana Harper

From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper (coming May 2022)

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Jenn and guest Vanessa Diaz discuss the Nebula finalists, that Ms. Marvel trailer, some favorite speculative poems, and more.

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That Ms. Marvel Trailer [Book Riot]

Disney and the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill [The Guardian]

Nebula Award Finalists

Martha Wells declines nomination [Publishers Marketplace]

Interview with Evan Ross Katz about his Buffy Book [AV Club]

Reebok is Making Power Rangers Shoes [Gizmodo]

Clock Star Rose Spine by Fran Wilde 

“All the Army Ghost Stories I Have Heard” by Natalie Wang, Strange Horizons

“On Where to Find Strange Horizons, And How to Get There” by Julia Rios, Strange Horizons

“Dancing Princesses” by Roshani Chokshi, Uncanny Magazine

“Assimilation” by Valerie Valdes, Uncanny Magazine

“Keening” by Valerie Valdes, Uncanny Magazine

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This week, Sharifah discusses two backlist must-reads.

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Severance by Ling Ma

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

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