S&L Podcast - #475 - Father Knows Best
/Awards season is here! We're celebrating deserving winners and discussing potential TV and movie adaptations of our favorite books. This November, we're diving into a novel about trains on Jupiter and concluding our October discussion on Father’s “5D chess.”
WHAT ARE WE NOMMING?
Tom: Pizza Flavored Mac and Cheese
Veronica: Tiny Halloween cupcakes!
QUICK BURNS
John: Hugo award 2023 winners
Kev: Just saw that Seattle won the bid to host Worldcon in 2025. Our supreme overlords should make an appearance.
-- And Mark noted that the Wiki is now updated
terpkristin and Frazzld: Ignyte Awards being announced too
Jan: From Locus Mag: The 2023 Utopia Award Winner for best Utopian Novel is "The World We Make" by N. K. Jemisin
From Locus Mag: The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2022 have been announced.
The winners for the 2022 Sidewise Awards for Alternate History have been announced.
Arboreality by Rebecca Campbell is the winner of the second Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.
JasonReads and CountZeroOr: Good news for Veronica, Fourth Wing and the rest of The Empyrean series has been optioned by Amazon and Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society for development into a Prime TV series by MGM, with Rebecca Yarros serving as an executive producer.
Jan: And the follow up novel "Iron Flame" is going to be released November 7 already!
Jan: r/fantasy has voted on their annual list of best self published fantasy.
Mark: Murderbot returns! Read the first chapter of System Collapse by Martha Wells Book is out November 14
BARE YOUR SWORD
"terpkrisitn: I never asked to keep my tonsils when they took them out, but I have kept the screw they took out of my ankle (only one of 5 taken out so far) and 2 sets of posterior spinal hardware. Turns out human hardware is more expensive than space hardware!"
"John (Nevets) Like Kristin I had a bad ankle injury, and without prompting they gave me the hardware that was used. This was actually fairly extensive, and some of it a bit exotic. Part of it was a couple of long rods and a bunch of hardware used as an external fixator between the back of my foot up to the top of my tibia. Another part was a chunk of titanium plate that was meant to be used as an internal fixator. At some point I think I may try and make something with the titanium, but not sure what yet.But I don't think I've kept any of the body parts that I grew that have been removed. Nor do I think I ever will, that just seems a bit weirder for some reason."
"I wear a FLorida Panthers or Chicago Cubs hat, when hiding at grocery store. I don’t know who I would put on my hat. (As a 55 yr old GenX woman part of me wants to put Dick)
Tom wearing a hat that says “Book”
Becky Chambers! Martha Wells. Though again I think last names work better here too. What a first world problem. Still as long as it can be Blue….Happy Monday - gifted article "
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION
November Kick Off
Mimicking of Known Successes Book by Malka Older.
WRAP UP
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
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