SFF Yeah!

Sharifah and Jenn discuss spending a night in Hobbiton, a Dark Tower adaptation, the Kindred trailer, weigh in on the Willow reboot, and more.

Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.

The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Spend the night in Hobbiton [Book Riot]

Dark Tower being adapted by Amazon [Gizmodo]

The Kindred Trailer [Shadow and Act]

A new Nigerian vampire comic & TV show [Tor.com]

Willow (2022)

Willow Series Universe Explained [Collider]

Willow: A Novel by Wayland Drew

Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (Cindel!)

Chronicles of the Shadow War by Chris Claremont

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jenn discusses publishers of SF/F gift editions to consider for holiday gifting.

Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.

The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!

And, you can also gift TBR!

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Folio Society (Kindred by Octavia Butler, Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates)

Subterranean Press (The Jade Setter of Janloon by Fonda Lee)

Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions (The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter)

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenn and guest Erica Ezeifedi discuss a handful of good news stories including the winners of the Shirley Jackson Awards, and talk about fictional worlds.

Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.

The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever smashes box office records [The Mary Sue]

Shirley Jackson Award Winners 2021 [Locus]

Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur Teaser [Twitter]

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Valerie Valdes’s world of the Chilling Effect series

Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills Cycle world

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

Premee Mohamad’s The Rising world

Micaiah Johnson’s The Space Between Worlds

Charlie Jane Anders’ City in the Middle of the Night

Murderbot Universe by Martha Wells

Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Alice by Christina Henry (many content warnings)

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Sharifah discusses two of her favorite SF/F reads with wintery vibes.

Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.

The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (cw: antisemitism, domestic abuse, child abuse, mention of rape & sexual assault, death of a child, animal death)

Radio Silence by Alyssa Cole (cw: racism, attempted rape)

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharifah and Jenn answer listener requests and give their favorites for gifting this holiday season in an extra-long episode!

Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.

The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!

1. Hi there,

I heard you were looking for holiday recommendation requests. I would like to ask for readalikes for books like Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell or A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland. (I’ve been really enjoying the “Red White & Royal Blue but make it fantasy/scifi” trend lately.)

Thank you,

Morgan

2. Hi Sharifah and Jenn,

I’m looking for SF/F gifting advice for my dad. He used to be a big fantasy reader when he was younger (some of his favorite authors were Ursula K. Le Guin and Terry Pratchett) but doesn’t read as much now. The last SF/F he read and loved was the Murderbot series. Do you have any SF/F recommendations that are fast-paced, on the shorter side, and possibly reminiscent of classic fantasy?

I love the podcast and particularly love that you recommend excellent new and backlist titles.

Thank you,

Emma

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho (cw: racism, misogyny)

The Tensorate Series by Neon Yang (cw: harm to children including medical experimentation and death)

Spear by Nicola Griffith (cw: mention of rape)

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

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach (cw: so many, espec homo/trans phobia and body horror)

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna (cw: child neglect)

The Way Spring Arrives And Other Stories, edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang (cw: many, depending on story)

The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jenn discusses airships in SF/F, courtesy of a listener request!

Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.

The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Ann Sei Lin’s Rebel Skies

Nisi Shawl’s Everfair

P. Djeli Clark’s Black God’s Drums

Ken Liu’s Dandelion Dynasty series

See Also:

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharifah and guest, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, author of The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, discuss exciting news from Wakanda, the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction winner and finalists, shout out some of their SF/F pop culture highlights of the year, so far, and more.

Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.

The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!

Get your SF/F gifting questions in to [email protected] by November 10!

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Tracking for $175M Opening [Variety]

The 2022 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction Winner and Finalists

Never Let Me Go Drama Series [Hollywood Reporter]

The Midnight Club (based on the Christopher Pike books) [Netflix]

Alien Series marathon (Prometheus)

Everything Everywhere All at Once

Prey and Predator series marathon

The DragonCon Costume Recap [New York Times]

Pantheon [AMC+]

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Sharifah discusses two backlist SF/F titles that are great for gifting.

Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.

The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!

Check out our Reading the Stars giveaway!

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharifah and Jenn discuss some happy news (the Kindred adaptation! Interior Chinatown!), some less happy RPG news, recommend creepy SF/F for Halloween season, and more.

Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.

The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!

Follow-Up: Black No More by George S. Schuyler

Get your SF/F gifting questions in to [email protected] by November 10!

Check out the Reading the Stars giveaway, in collaboration with Obvious State.

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Butler’s Kindred Series will premiere Dec 13 [The Root]

Wizards of the Coast going to court to stop racist, transphobic RPG from being sold [Them]

Fiona Apple writes LOTR song [EW]

Interior Chinatown going to Hulu with Taika Waititi [Variety]

Harvey Awards SFF highlights [Book Riot]

Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (cw: self-harm, domestic violence, homophobia, mention of sexual assault)

Lana Harper’s Witches of Thistle Grove series

We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen (cw: use of ableist language around mental health)

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson (cw: sexual abuse, pedophilia, animal sacrifice, grooming, racism)

House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (cw: racism)

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jenn discusses speculative fiction from Indigenous authors in honor of Indigenous People’s Day.

Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.

The show can also be found on Stitcher here.

To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Never Whistle At Night, co-edited by by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. (Fall 2023)

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices