SFF Yeah!

Sharifah and Jenn discuss Vans’ new Harry Potter sneakers, Terry Pratchett and Orphan Black adaptations, and the punk subgenres of SF/F.

This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and Reentry by Peter Cawdron.

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News:

Episode 22: Steampunk

Terry Pratchett’s ‘The Amazing Maurice’ to Be Turned Into Animated Film.

Orphan Black returns as a serial, with Malka Older as showrunner!

Vans revealed their HP sneaker line (and the designers are obv Slytherin).

There will be a Dune TV series about the Bene Gesserit.

Books Discussed:

Solarpunk: Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers, edited by Sarena Ullibari

Mythpunk: Unraveling by Karen Lord

Elfpunk: Blanket recommendation for Holly Black (The Darkest Part of the Forest; Tithe)

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Silkpunk: “The Snow of Jinyang” by Zhang Ran, translated by Ken Liu and Carmen Yiling Yan (The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu)

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Jenn and guest María Cristina García Lynch discuss the Nebula Award winners, the new Terminator and Star Trek installments, military sf/f, and more.

This episode is sponsored by All the Books, Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey, and Gather the Fortunes by Bryan Camp.

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Let’s talk about the Star Trek: Picard trailer.

Let’s also talk about Terminator: Dark Fate!

Hooray for Nebula Award winners!

Into the Spider-verse screenplay

The Shirley Jackson Award Finalists have been announced.

Books Discussed

Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1) by Ann Leckie

The Rage of Dragons (The Burning #1) by Evan Winter

Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu

The Cassandra by Sharma Shields

Monstrous Regiment (Discworld) by Terry Pratchett

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss Avengers, Vans’ new Harry Potter Collection, some book announcements, and favorite kidlit from SF/F.

This episode is sponsored by Audible, BookCon, and Exhalation by Ted Chiang.

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Here’s a sciencey look at The Snap from Avengers: Infinity War

NK Jemisin is writing a comic for DC!

Zen Cho is writing a new novella!

Vans Is Launching a Harry Potter Collaboration

Books

Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood

The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex (Home, Tip voiced by Rihanna!)

The Storm Runner by JC Cervantes

Binky Adventure Series by Ashley Spires

Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava Quartet #1) by Roshani Chokshi

Phoebe and Her Unicorn (Phoebe and Her Unicorn Series Book 1) by Dana Simpson

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Sharifah and Liberty discuss Game of Thrones, Western librarians, Peter Mayhew, and pirates in SF/F.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Stranger Things from Dark Horse Comics and Netflix, and Finale by Stephanie Garber.

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News:

New Sarah Gailey book!

Peter Mayhew passes away

Double Netflix News:

Netflix’s first Arabic series will be a supernatural series!, and Netflix’s ‘Chambers’ is a New Gold Standard for Indigenous Representation in American Visual Media

Books:

Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler

Warchild by Karin Lowachee (tw: child abuse)

A Darker Shade of Magic/Shades of Magic Series by VE Schwab

The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss The Kitchies Awards, Nnedi Okorafor’s new production company, Saga, nature-filled SF/F, and more.

This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Upon a Burning Throne by Ashok K. Banker, and BookCon.

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News:

Nnedi Okorafor creating a production company

Afrofuturist fashion

The 2018 Kitchies Winners

Madeline Miller’s Instagram

New Horror imprint from Tor

Saga has an official endpoint

Books Discussed:

The Queens of Renthia series by Sarah Beth Durst

Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri

Southern Reach series by Jeff VanderMeer

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss Cowboy Bebop, an Octavia Butler adaptation, con-artists and thieves, and more.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling, and Voices by David Elliott.

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News:

Hugo Nominees announced!

John Cho and Three More Actors Cast in Netflix’s ‘Cowboy Bebop’

Nnedi Okorafor and Wanuri Kahiu to Adapt Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed for Amazon

Books Discussed

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

Want by Cindy Pon

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Zero Sum Game by S.L. Huang

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Jenn and special guest Ausma Zehanat Khan dig into Dune by Frank Herbert, including fancasting the upcoming movie adaptation!

Books & Links:

Ausma Zehanat Khan on Recommended

The Bloodprint and The Black Khan by Ausma Zehanat Khan

Dune by Frank Herbert

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss the Harry Potter AR game, the return of Bill & Ted, international SF/F, and more.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders,  A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, and Enchantée by Gita Trelease.

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News

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Announce BILL & TED 3 Release Date

Time Bandits TV series with Taika Waititi

Harry Potter AR game details!

Full Stranger Things Trailer

Books Discussed

Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas (tw: rape, transphobia, racial slurs)

Future Fiction, edited by Bill Campbell

tw: Suicide, “Grey Noise” and “Proposition 23”

Bestiality, “The International Studbook of the Giant Panda”

Animal and human experimentation, “Creative Surgery”

World of Fantasy Day on Book Riot

Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, transl. by Julia Meitov Hersey

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (Recommended episode)

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Jenn and special guest CB Lee discuss The Night Circus and Lord of the Rings adaptations, the Star Wars EU, and YA sci-fi and fantasy!

This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson, and We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia.

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News:

The Night Circus adaptation has a director

The Lord of the Rings TV show will take place in the Second Age

Here’s the Good Omens full trailer

Even more new Star Wars: EU books coming out!

Queen’s Shadow by EK Johnston

A Crash of Fate by Zoraida Córdova

Black Spire by Delilah S. Dawson

Books Discussed:

Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee

“The Case for YA Science Fiction” by Fonda Lee

Dreadnought by April Daniels (tw: abusive parents, transphobia)

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

The Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault

Unsung Heroine (Heroine Complex) by Sarah Kuhn

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss (not) surviving in the Game of Thrones world, Nebula Award finalists, questionable LOTR-writing bots, and more.

This episode is sponsored by Audible, An Affair of Poisons by Addie Thorley, and Epic Reads.

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News:

Nebula Award Finalists Announced

Researchers Actually Studied How To Survive On Game Of Thrones

A Bot Wrote a "Believable" LORD OF THE RINGS Scene

Y The Last Man Adaptation Premiering in 2020

Books Discussed:

Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin

Ammonite by Nicola Griffith

Court of Fives by Kate Elliott

Monstress by Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda

Tiger Eye by Marjorie Liu (shout-out)

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