S&L Podcast - #483 - C is for Chestburster
/A few more thoughts on the Hugos, who would win in a fight between Maas and Yarros, and we preview our March Madness brackets!
WHAT ARE WE NOMMING?
Tom: Mexican Caesar Salad
Veronica: Hot chocolate
QUICK BURNS
Let's run through the matchups. We can even give which ones are predicted to win based on reader votes on challonge
Seth: Susan Cooper, author of spooky fantasy kids books is the SFWA's newest Grand Master.
Seth and JasonReads: Ryan Reynold's production company is working on an adaptation of Scalzi's latest.
Seth: Apparently, The Martian is already 10 years old— Andy Weir wrote a bit more about Mark Watney's journey around the dust storm and released them as "The Lost Sols."
Decado and Jan: There is a press release on business wire titled "iwot and D1srupt1ve Join Forces as True Source to Unleash AI Magic on “The Wheel of Time”®" and I need Tom to decipher the press release! Help!
Tom's interpretation: "A company that uses number ones instead of the letter I is creating a chat bot trained on the Wheel of Time series. Coming to the Web, Android and iOS. It will have a freemium model. "
jasonb: ‘Alien’ Will Be Adapted for Children’s Book
BARE YOUR SWORD
Tamahome: If Rebecca Yarros and Sarah J. Maas had a fight, who would win?
Jan: I had to live for two weeks on protein shakes without anything else before a stomach operation to reduce the size of my liver so there was more room for the surgeon and while protein shakes are not as bad anymore it soured those shakes for me 😉
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION
MARCH PICK
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
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Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne
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LaszloJamf
Drink every time …
Stew is consumed
There is a spray of arterial blood
Something is measured in units of “mead halls
Iain Bertram
I am being driven to distraction by the use of ye olden days language scattered through the book whip I assume is for world building.
Why use seax instead is knife. 🔪 not everyone is reading digital books.
This smacks of an author (academic) showing off rather than making it readable.
I am not making fun of place names but using old words for common place items rather than the obvious modern word."
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