S&L Podcast - #446 - Spoon & Ladle

The Hugos are out! The Hugos are out! Huge cookies are out! TRIKE READS READER'S DIGEST? Plus, the varied emotions caused by Planetfall.

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WHAT ARE WE NOMMING?

Tom: Broccoli Alfredo Pasta
Veronica: Air fried food!

QUICK BURNS

rogo and John let us know: The Hugo Awards finalists have been announced.

Mark: A little more on the Hugo finalists...

terpkristin - Related to the Hugos, it looks like voting is open for those who are members or supporting members

And CountZeroOr notes that S. B. Divya has declined her Hugo Award nominations

Pilchie The Wheel of Time Is Getting an Animated Prequel Film Called The White Tower

terpkristin - Big news for Nnedi Okorafor this week. It's finally been announced that she sold a novel called "THE AFRICANFUTURIST" to HarperCollins/William Morrow

Mark: The International Association of Media Tie-in Writers announced nominees for the Scribe Awards for superior works published in 2022

Seth: Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower is becoming an opera

Kristy The short-list for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize has been announced.

Trike: Reader’s Digest has a list of the 100 best books of all time, and lots of SFF books are included, even among the top ten.

Scott - Rory August’s book ‘The Last Gifts of the Universe’ won the second annual Self-Published Science Fiction competition.

The competition was originally conceptualized by Hugh Howey and self-pubbed author Duncan Swan"

BARE YOUR SWORDterpkristin:

I’m only in the first part where Tom talks about his cookie, which OBVIOUSLY gives another good “in”. There’s a place in northern Virginia called Midnight Treats that makes big cookies that are REALLY good. At most, I can eat like half of one at once.

John (Taloni) writes:

Ah, that was cool getting mentioned on the podcast. But! If it happens again, I request my full name be used:

Johnny Johnny Bo Bonnie, Banana Fannah Fo Fonnie, Me My Mo Monnie, Taloni!

What are we nomming when we land on another world?

BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

Planetfall by Emma Newman

Amazon link

A conversation about directed evolution and its portrayal in Planetfall devolves into a conversation about how cute pugs are. This is Sword and Laser at its best

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