Wizards Vs. Lesbians

As a treat we decided to read three Tamsyn Muir short stories. Tremendous fun was had.

What if vampires drank ink and ideas instead of blood? And what if there was an incredibly dumb book about it?

We've made it through two years of this! Due to a series of circumstances we kind of had to throw this episode together at the last minute, but we had fun, and that's what matters.

What if British colonizers in early 20th century Singapore were literal vampires? And what if they wanted to have sex with you? And what does it say that this bit of ebook erotica is one of the strongest and most structurally creative novels we've read for this podcast?

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.