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Sharifah and Jenn discuss the cover reveal for The Testaments, some new Merlin texts, fantasy and sci-fi set in space, and more.

This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik, and Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen.

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News:

Middle Ages Merlin manuscript found in Bristol University library

Cover reveal for The Testaments, The Handmaid’s Tale sequel

Winter Is Coming! HBO’s ‘Game Of Thrones’ Spinoff Sets Diverse Cast

The Ghost Bride to be adapted into a Netflix series (Behind the scenesfootage)

Books Discussed:

A Spark of White Fire by Sangu Mandanna

The Wrong Stars by Tim Pratt

Mirage by Somaiya Daud

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples

Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss adaptation news for Tasha Suri and Leigh Bardugo, voting in the Hugos, favorite weird SF/F, and more.

This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, the Unusual Suspects Giveaway, and Golden State by Ben Winters.

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News

Netflix Orders ‘Shadow And Bone’ Series Based On Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse Novels

Hugo nominations are open! Hugo site to become a voting member;

Spreadsheet of Doom

Empire of Sand has been optioned!

Bandersnatch update: Netflix is getting sued by Chooseco

Books Discussed

Shout-out: Jeff VanderMeer, China Mieville, and Lauren Beukes

Lonesome Bodybuilder by Yukiko Motoya, transl. by Asa Yoneda (tw: bodyhorror)

Long Division by Kiese Laymon (tw: family and racial violence, use of slurs)

Swamplandia! by Karen Russell (tw: rape; child abuse; suicide)

Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyan (tw: racial violence, gun violence, violence against children, self harm)

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss wizardly puppies, Bandersnatch, their most anticipated sequels of 2019, and more.

This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, Slayer by Kiersten White, and Undying by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner.

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News 

This Puppy Learned “Harry Potter” Spells And Hermione Is Screaming

We May Never See All of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Disney Princesses Play ‘Dungeons & Dragons’

The dumb of the Bird Box Challenge

Books Discussed

The True Queen (Sorcerer Royal #2) by Zen Cho, Mar 12

Cat Sebastian recommends Sorcerer to Crown on Recommended

Mahimata by Rati Mehrotra, Mar 5 (Asiana #2)

Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse, Apr 23 (Sixth World #2) – tw: gore and cannibalism

Ruse by Cindy Pon, Mar 12 (Want #2)

Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee, June 25 (Machineries of Empire)

Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legend of Orisha #2) by Tomi Adeyemi (March 5)

The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air #2) by Holly Black (Jan 8)

Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson (Mar 12)

Binti Trilogy omnibus (Feb 5)

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss Christmas dragons, exciting adaptation news, weird trends in pseudonyms, and their most anticipated reads of 2019.

This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal, The Similars by Rebecca Hanover, and Nightchaser by Amanda Bouchet.

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News Discussed

‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ Gets Order For 16 More Episodes From Netflix.

Christmas dragons neighborhood fight!

Stranger Things Season 3 Teaser Teases Episode Titles And An Air Date(and we learned nothing new)

Runaways is back on Hulu! (And, correct, Season 2 has been released simultaneously, so marathon-watching is easy.)

Books Discussed

Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford (Jackson Ford is a pseudonym for a critically acclaimed science fiction author.)

FKA USA by Reed King (Reed King is the pseudonym of a New York Times bestselling author and TV writer.)

The Bird King by G Willow Wilson (March 12)

Unraveling by Karen Lord (June 4)

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (March 19)

The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes (June 4); listen to the song here

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi (Mar 5)The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad (May 14)

The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders (Feb 12)

Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation (Feb 19) by Various, translated by Ken Liu

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss J.K. Rowling’s terrible assistant, adaptation news, the Best of 2018 lists, and recommend LGBTQ+ SFF.

This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal and our True Story Giveaway.

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News

The Best Of Spreadsheet Returns!

JKR’s terrible assistant, wow.

Ursula K. LeGuin’s novelette Nine Lives gets casting!

GRRM’s Wild Cards show is going to Hulu.

Books Discussed

So Lucky by Nicola Griffith

The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee

50 must-read LGBT fantasy books post

8 Queer Sci-Fi books

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Sharifah and Jenn give their picks for the best books to give this holiday season.

This episode is sponsored by The Spectral City by Leanna Renee Hieber and the Book Riot Read Harder Journal.

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Books Discussed:

The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin

The Machineries of Empire series by Yoon Ha Lee

Rise of the Empress duology by Julie C Dao (tw: child abuse)

The Traitor Baru Cormorant and The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (tw: institutionalized homophobia, assault, etc)

Witchmark by CL Polk

The Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Rosewater by Tade Thompson (here's our Book Club episode)

How Long til Black Future Month by NK Jemisin

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (tw: child abuse)

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Circe by Madeline Miller (tw: rape)

Mem by Bethany C. Morrow

The Completed Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor

Prime Meridian by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Freshwater by Awaeke Emezi (tw: rape; self-harm)

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss the deaths of William Goldman and Stan Lee, the World Fantasy Award winners, sci-fi and fantasy romances, and more.

This episode is sponsored by Enclave by Thomas Locke and Dragonshadow by by Elle Katharine White.

News

William Goldman has died.

Stan Lee has also passed away.

Congrats, World Fantasy Award Winners!

New Erin Morgenstern book coming!

Rolling in the Deep adaptation for Mira Grant

Books Discussed

Silver Silence by Nalini Singh (Psy-Changeling Trinity #1)

The Unleashing by Shelly Laurenston (Call of Crows #1)

Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole (Off the Grid #1)

Tiger Eye by Marjorie M. Liu (Dirk & Steele #1)

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss Dracula marginalia, the Discworld adaptation, the NOMMO awards, and the best opening and closing lines of SFF.

This episode is sponsored by Jade City by Fonda Lee; Lost Arrow, Book I of The Kalelah Series by Marshall Ross; and Fantastic Beasts: The Magizoologist’s Discovery Case.

News

Terry Pratchett’s The Watch lands at BBC

NOMMO Award winners!

London Library Discovers Bram Stoker's Dracula Notes Scribbled In Margins Of Its Books

Naomi Watts cast for GoT prequel

Books Discussed

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris (tw: rape)

The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin (tw: harm to children)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (TW: Rape; child abuse)

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In this first-ever book club episode, Sharifah and Jenn discuss Rosewater by Tade Thompson.

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Sharifah and Jenn discuss multi-platform media, Nnedi Okorafor's nonfiction, and The Twilight Zone, and recommend novellas.

This episode is sponsored by TBR, On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden, and Putting the Science in Fiction.

News Discussed

An ambitious multi-platform launch

Liz Gorinsky, formerly of Tor, is starting her own publishing company.

Nnedi Okorafor is doing a nonfiction book!

Follow-up: The reboot trailer for Twilight Zone mostly just makes me want to rewatch original Twilight Zone.

Books Discussed

On a Red Station, Drifting by Aliette de Bodard (Listen to her on Get Booked!)

The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark

Prime Meridian by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

A Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson (tw: homophobia, family abuse) (Read his piece on writing dialect in fiction)

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