S&L Podcast - #465 - Skirting on the Edge of Danger

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Some of our favorite authors are giving away free short stories and winning Locus Awards. What the best book club pick we ever made was. Why books that make you uncomfortable are important to read. And our last thoughts on Fourth Wing.

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WHAT ARE WE NOMMING?

Tom: Levains Cookie

Veronica: Bask Rosé

QUICK BURNS

Chris K. 2023 Locus Award Winners were announced

Spells: First teaser for the Netflix version of Three-Body Problem, series starting January 2024.

Elizabeth: Amazon Original Stories is publishing six short stories by some big names including James S.A. Corey, Veronica Roth, Rebecca Roanhorse, Ann Leckie, Nnedi Okorafor, and John Scalzi. They will be available to Amazon Prime and Kindle Unlimited subscribers as part of their subscriptions, and available to purchase on Kindle and Audible for everyone else. Available June 27 2023.

Here's Scalzi's announcement for it.

Trike: A book collecting Iain M. Banks’ drawings for The Culture series will be published November 7th. I had no idea this was a thing he did. I love these behind-the-scenes worldbuilding books"

Jan: From LocusMag:

The 2022 Kitschies winners have been announced, the prize for “the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining fiction that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic""

The Red Tentacle for the Best Novel went to "The Last Blade Priest" by W.P. Wiles and The Golden Tentacle for Best Debut Novel went to ""Our Wives Under the Sea"" by Julia Armfield."

terpkristin and Zomino : Felicia Day apparently has a new Audible Original coming out that is apparently like a comedic ode to fantasy. It’ll be narrated by Neil Gaiman. Guess I’ll be checking that out

Mer: The US Library of Congress announced the speakers at this year's National Book Festival in the District of Columbia. This year there's John Scalzi and the Umbrella Academy's Elliot Page with his memoir. All talks will be recorded and posted to the Library's digital collection for on-demand access

Tamahome: An article about Samuel Delaney in the New Yorker let slip this little tidbit " while Neil Gaiman, who is adapting Delany’s classic space adventure “Nova” (1968) as a series for Amazon"

BARE YOUR SWORD

"ohn (Taloni) So much Good News! We need a new name for good-news Tom.

Should it be:

* Gospel Tom (spreader of the Good News)

* Good Omens Tom: The Nice and Accurate Podcasteries of Thomas Merritt, Host.

Or....? Suggest below.

John (Nevets)

It's got Merritt!

And yes Tom would hate saying it, and Veronica would laugh/ groan a lot."

Best and worst club pick

BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

KICK OFF

Planetfall by Emma Newman

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FINAL WRAP UP

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

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Representation & Disability

Fist-icuffs!

ADDENDUMS

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