S&L Podcast - #439 - And the Rest is History

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So many awards! We learn about a novelization of an unpublished Alien 3 script by William Gibson. We take a brief trip back to episode 1. And we share the books we picked to read this month in honor of Jenny.

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QUICK BURNS

Jan: As The Hollywood Reporter writes, there is a Jon Snow Sequel Series in Development at HBO with Kit Harrington attached to reprise his role as Jon Snow.

Jan: Penguin Random House has announced a new imprint, Random House Worlds, "dedicated entirely to licensed book publishing.’

Jan: Goodreads has releases their list of the most popular books of 2022 (so far). In Science Fictios and Fantasy the TOP 5 are:

Mark: The 2022 Scribe Awards nominees have been announced. Winners will be announced at the award ceremony at San Diego Comic-Con Friday July 22.

Jan: The Lambda Literary Foundation has announced the winners for the Annual Lambda Literary Awards, celebrating “the best lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender books.”

Jan: Nominees for the first Utopia Awards, presented in association with the Climate Fiction Conference (CliFiCon22), to be held online October 1, 2022, have been announced.

Tamahome: Harlan Ellison's last edgy anthology to be published posthumously next year with the help of J. Michael Straczynski. I actually saw this in Wikipedia.

Jan: Netflix has released a first clip for 'First Kill' "an adaptation of the short story by V. E. Schwab about a sapphic teenage vampire-monster hunter romance"

Jan: Netflix has released a first teaser trailer for their upcoming Paul Feig movie "The School for Good and Evil" based on the series by Soman Chainani and set to premiere in September.

Joanna: Samuel Delany’s new book This Short Day of Frost and Sun (according to author it is "fantasy, in the manner of G. K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday") will be serialized in The Georgia Review starting from the Summer 2022 issue.

BARE YOUR SWORD

Fun time comparisons:

Jan: original Star Wars is way closer to the outbreak of World War II than it is to today

Tassie Dave: Cleopatra lived closer in time to the building of the Sydney Opera House, than she did to the building of the Pyramids of Giza

Paul: The amount of time between the first Stegosaurus and the last Tyrannosaurus is roughly the same as the amount of time between the last Tyrannosaurus and NOW!"

Good evening,

I am presently reading the oldest books on the podcast. I was hoping to listen to those old shows. I have discovered that you’ve posed all the old shows on sound cloud. My question is, are the first few shows available somewhere that I haven’t looked? Thanks for any help or guidance you can provide.

Jason

Here’s episode one on Archive.org.

Beth Mitcham

MACHINEHOOD, S.B. Divya. Great big and small-scale questions -- ideas about humanity's future and societal change, peeks at future kitchen technology and virtual school. Characters worry about world destruction and spousal discord.

Kenley Neufeld

A place we may become. Or are? Familiar, and yet not. To lie is to be jailed. A story of a speculator. Those who uncover the lies. A death that leads us on a journey. Fun play with words. A “cop” drama. Golden State by @benhwinters - book #3 for June ⁦

Kenley Neufeld

If, Then by Kate Hope Day. Book #1 for June

@swordandlaser pick. It was quick & easy read. Shifting through the multi-verse. Gives us pause on what could have been; what might have been. Choices we make. Mostly traditional fiction with some genre mixed into the story. I liked it!"

BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

Veronica - Nona the Ninth

Tom - Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

Next Month

Hunt the Stars by Jessie Mihalik

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