S&L Podcast - #387 - The Nanobots Are Coming?
/The first rule of Short Story Club, SFF with a smile, and how to get the most out of Black Leopard, Red Wolf.
QUICK BURNS
Mark: Coming September 2020
Andy Serkis records audiobook of The Hobbit for HarperCollins
gollum!
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Tamahome: ❤️Fall in Love With Kiki's Delivery Service All Over Again With This New Translation of the Original Novel
Kiki's Delivery Service is a classic Miyazaki anime. She's a young witch that delivers bread. I didn't even know there was a book. I knew Howl's Moving Castle was a book. Maybe you can pick the book soon as a change of pace. Does this mean there's a Totoro novel? It might be written in an indecipherable Totoro language. 🧹
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Conal: Release date is set for Ready Player Two. November 24.
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Now that post about Ready Player Two came with a suggestion of watching the movie version virtually and virtually cuddling which led Trike to say no thanks even to virtual cuddles, no touching please, which led Mark to post a picture of a finger touching a picture of a tricycle which led to:
Trike: : puts killer nanobots in mail to Mark ::
:: sends them COD for extra-added evil :Mark: Trike's nanobots haven't arrived yet so I can still post a quick burn about a murderbot.
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The Murderbot Diaries short story Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells which was offered to people who preordered Network Effect, will be available through Short Story Club https://www.shortstory.club/
It's a book club for short stories. You RSVP, read a short story, and join a live discussion with the author on Zoom.
Live Q&A with Martha Wells On Murderbot July 21 at 5:30PM PST / 8:30PM EST
If you press the RSVP button on the website, it will take you to an eventbrite page where you can either get a free ticket or make a donation to a charity.
UPDATE: There seems to be a limit on the number of tickets that will be available so, sign up early, if this interests you.
UPDATE 2: I signed up and the link to download the short story is for Hugh Howey's Wool instead of Ms. Wells' short story! I contacted the organizers asking for help. Trike must have misaddressed his nanobots.
UPDATE 3: The short story club folks sent out the correct download link right away. The postman has come and gone today, still no nanobots, but the murderbot is squared away.
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Dominik wrote: "Storybundle just dropped their third World SF Bundle. Either four books for five dollars or ten for fifteen, and some of them look pretty interesting."
John Added: One of the books at the lower tier is In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard which is worth the price of the bundle alone...
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Shad: Brandon Sanderson just posted on twitter that the final draft of Rhythm of War is complete.
BARE YOUR SWORD
Craig Albuck
@Devolark
Hey @swordandlaser nice interview with LE Modesitt Jr. Have you read the Recluce saga? A fantastic series. maybe put The Magic of Recluce as a fantasy pick??
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How many S&L books had you read this year before they were announced? 2020 edition
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
Subreddit with rereads and chapter summaries (You need to scroll to find them)
If you lemmed, here is another challenge
COMING UP!
Questions for Dennis E. Taylor 7/29
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