An extra-long episode covering the penultimate installment of the Ninth House series (assuming Homestuck denouement elongation syndrome doesn't strike. Pray it away.) You guys already know what this one's about.

Well, we made it to 50 episodes, and as promised we will try to figure out what Be-Papas thought they were doing.

It's a retro episode! (We will eventually make it through Nicola Griffith's entire catalog.) This is a book about celebrity, hereditary wealth, toxic relationships and the science of water reclamation, and even though it was written in 1995 it feels extraordinarily current. Recommended.

In far-future biopunk (ecopunk? mycopunk?) New Zealand, a queer cop joins a pirate gang and ends up on a trip to the fireworks factory. It's all very first novel but it's got good politics.

In this episode we discuss Our Souls To The Moon by Tamara Jeree, Onward by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, and A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad. Tune in for Isaac changing his mind completely about one of these stories midway through the podcast!

A young girl growing up in interwar Los Angeles wants to be a star, which turns out to be alarmingly literal, since Hollywood is run by the fair folk. Because of course it is. A fantastically evocative book that solves the nativist magic problem we keep running into.

This episode is about the Renunciates trilogy, but it is more generally about Marion Zimmer Bradley. We're talking about her because she and her ghostwriters pioneered the wizards vs lesbians genre, and also because it is important to remember that the old SF community harbored, protected and enabled predatory monsters when we consider the ways the community has changed.

A milestone for Wizards vs Lesbians - our first advanced review copy! That put us in a good mood but rest assured this one is great on its own merits. Think Wodehouse, Nancy Mitford, Utena, but with wizards, lesbians, communists, and sinister White Russians.

Arthurian wizards vs lesbians! And it's by Nicola Griffith, one of the all-time greats. Find out why Percival's spear was so hard, and what she did with it.

A pair of novellas, both of which have the word Tiger in their title, even though only one of them has real tigers in it. We had some audio issues with this one, but it does feature us discovering the work of Nghi Vo, who has since become one of our favorite authors.