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Sharifah and Jenn discuss Christopher Tolkien’s legacy, adaptation updates for The Watch and Snowpiercer, speculative poetry, and more.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and LMBPN Publishing.

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NEWS

Christopher Tolkien dies at age 95

Concerns about The Watch adaptation, Parts 1 and 2

Snowpiercer TV show gets air date

‘Binti’ Adaptation From Michael Ellenberg in the Works at Hulu

Ghost Bride trailer

BOOKS

Reference: Speculative Poetry post

“3-D Printed Brother” by Millie Ho, Strange Horizons

“Ọ́jí Íjè [KOLA JOURNEY]“ by Uche Ogbuji, FIYAH Issue #11

“The Dissolution of Icarus” by Michelle Muenzler, Liminality Poetry Issue #18

“Unbraided, Clean” by Terese Mason Pierre, FIYAH Issue #10

Life On Mars by Tracy K. Smith (“My God, It’s Full of Stars”)

“Turning the Leaves” by Amal El-Mohtar, Apex Magazine

Goblin Fruit — Archives (edited by Amal El-Mohtar)

“Skyscraper” by Annika Barranti Klein, Fireside Fiction

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This week, Sharifah recommends historical science fiction and fantasy.

This episode is sponsored by Lanternfish Press.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss the Hugo nominations, updates on screen adaptations, their most anticipated science fiction and fantasy sequels of 2020, and more.

This episode is sponsored by Novel Gazing, Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast and Flatiron Books, publishers of The Night Country by Melissa Albert.

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NEWS

Hugo nominations are open!

Snow Crash TV series updates

A Willow series is happening.

‘Shadow And Bone’: Netflix Series Adds Seven To Cast

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Critical Point by SL Huang (Cas Russell #3) April 28, 2020

The Worst Of All Possible Worlds by Alex White (The Salvagers #3) July 28, 2020

Stormsong by CL Polk (The Kingston Cycle #2) Feb 11, 2020 (tw: PTSD, violence towards women and children)

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade #3) June 9, 2020 (tw: previous books had institutionalized homophobia, assualt/rape, torture, violence, war crimes)

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, June 2, 2020

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland, February 4, 2020

Shadowshaper Legacy by DJ Older, January 7, 2020

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire, January 7, 2020

We Unleash The Merciless Storm by Tehlor Kay Mejia, February 25, 2020

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This week, Jenn discusses science fiction and fantasy stories that include a romance.

This episode is sponsored by LMBPN Publishing.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn

The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt

The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss Dracula, PAX Unplugged, the Wonder Woman trailer, their most anticipated sci-fi and fantasy of 2020, and more.

This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, LMBPN Publishing, and Anyone by Charles Soule, and by Harper Perennial.

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NEWS

Steven Moffat on Dracula’s Sexuality

Follow-up: Jenn has further thoughts on The Mandalorian

PAX Unplugged Report! Tea Dragon Society & Aquicorn Cove by Katie O’Neill, Dune, Star Trek Catan

Hasbro Announces New Baby Yoda Collectibles (crochet’d Child)

Wonder Woman trailer

BOOKS DISCUSSED

Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, transl. by Ken Liu (April 14 2020)

The Down Days by Ilze Hugo (May 5 2020)

The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by KS Villoso (February 18 2020)

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (March 17 2020)

Docile by K.M. Szpara (March 3 2020)

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (January 21 2020)

The City We Became by NK Jemisin (March 24 2020) – short story: The City Born Great

Wicked as You Wish by Rin Chupeco (March 3 2020)

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This week, Sharifah discusses nostalgic science fiction and fantasy.

This episode is sponsored by LMBPN Publishing.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED:

The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia Hamilton, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss The Mandalorian and other Star Wars news, a slate of award winners, and sci-fi/fantasy stories with mysteries.

This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi, with Fierce Reads, and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, publisher of The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black.

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NEWS

The Mandalorian is on Disney+ (05:40 – 10:20, skip to avoid spoilers)

ALL the Star Wars cookware, including Le Creuset

2019 World Fantasy Winners

Nommo Award winners

British Fantasy Awards winners

BOOKS DISCUSSED

The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (tw: disordered eating, self-harm, hazing)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (tw: blood & body horror)

The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor

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This week Jenn discusses short science fiction and fantasy, to help you meet your 2019 reading goals.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

The End of the Sentence by Kat Howard and Maria Dahvana Headley

Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette de Bodard

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Sharifah and Jenn recommend their favorite science fiction and fantasy for holiday gift-giving this year.

This episode is sponsored by Extraneous, Tor Books, and Supernova by Marissa Meyer, with Fierce Reads.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

The King’s Peace by Jo Walton (tw: rape, unwanted pregnancy)

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Post: https://bookriot.com/2016/06/10/why-every-heart-a-doorway-made-me-cry-happy-tears/)

Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Severance by Ling Ma

The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (tw: self harm, family violence)

Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender (tw: violence related to slavery, including sexual assault and torture)

Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes

The Outside by Ada Hoffmann (tw: body horror, torture)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

PET by Akwaeke Emezi (tw: pedophilia/child abuse)

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

The Murders of Molly Southbourne and The Survival of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson

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Sharifah recommends science fiction and fantasy audiobooks for road trips, especially those long holiday drives!

This episode is sponsored by LMBPN Publishing.

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BOOKS DISCUSSED

Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

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