S&L Podcast - #479 - Where Have All The Beef Suits Gone?
/Are there too many Nat 20s in Kings of the Wyld, our stance on Skarsgard as Murderbot, and we introduce the January pick (which has a lot of triggers).
WHAT ARE WE NOMMING?
Tom: Peppermint bark, peppermint almonds, peppermint popcorn, gingerbread people
Veronica: bublé water
QUICK BURNS
Ruth and Tom: Murderbot is coming to Apple TV:
Seth: Tor has released their best of the year list.
Seth: David Drake died this week.
Roberator: The Good Omens series was renewed for a third and final season:
BARE YOUR SWORD
Oaken: Regarding the Ray Bradbury/Kurt Vonnegut discussion
Ruth: Thanks for the shoutout to my article about Shadow and Bone!
You prompted me to have a couple of mini mince pies with my morning cup of tea. Mince pies are a seasonal staple over here, you can hardly avoid them from mid-November on. For extra indulgence, try one with a dollop of cream.
I should mention that, while mince pies don’t contain meat, they’re not always vegetarian- the filling sometimes contains beef suet.
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION
January Book Pick
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
WRAP UP
Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
Perezge73
As a D&D player I loved Moog’s obsession with the Owlbear. I’ve never got to include one of those in any of my adventures. Even while watching the D&D movie, I thought about Moog when the Owlbear came out and I said to myself “That one’s for you buddy,”"
Aaron Bell
There was a mention on GR of 2 other books about ragtag bands of misfits with very similar cover designs to KotW, which sent me looking for fan art of the characters."
Here is a moody one of Larkspur that feels like it could be just out of frame on the cover.
And these are kind of fun. Personally I think Moog is the best here.
Apparently, I should have started here, seems like this is the master collection
Decado
Everything in this book seems so random. The author has a lot of cool ideas that he's throwing at the wall but it doesn't ever really form into a cohesive thing. This goes for the plot too, it's just random thing followed by random thing.
ADDENDUMS
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