S&L Podcast - #444 - Cut Thieves and Purses

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The Hugos are here and lots of very deserving winners. A roguish story bundle. Are TV shows worse than an ending? Our first thoughts on How High We Go in the Dark, and our last thoughts on Rivers of London.

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QUICK BURNS

Iain: Hugo Winners Announced

Jan: Dragon Con has announced the winners for the 2022 Dragon Awards

John (Taloni) SFWA has a story bundle up, theme The Renegades of Tomorrow

CountZeroOr: AMC is doing a new prestige animated series from Ken Liu.

BARE YOUR SWORD

Carin Ruff @carinr

Interesting discussion about Aaronovitch writing a Black protagonist in the latest ep. I confess it had never occurred to me as an issue because the incomparable Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as audio narrator completely displaced the author in my mind."

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Stephen: Moving and books do not go together. I would have liked to have saved my First Editions and signed stuff, but the airline had a 50 Lbs limit on 1 suitcase which shot down that notion. Downside of moving halfway around the world. The upside? A major upgrade in my living standards. (Stephen moved from From Los Angeles to Samut Prakan (Just outside Bangkok) Thailand)

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Endings

BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

KICK OFF

How High We Go In the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Amazon

2 Chapters in: I hope the story pays off

Book Briefing

Wrap Up?

Rivers of London (Midnight Riot) by Ben Aaronovitch

Amazon

RoL: Worldbuilding the "real" world

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