S&L Podcast - #503 - Tapeworms and Time Travel
/Tom is safe. Stephen has had three New Years, and we all love Graham Gore. But the best part of the show is Veronica's parade of diseases.
WHAT ARE WE NOMMING?
Tom: Mushroom Chicken
Veronica: Lentil lasagna
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Any news or announcements
Jen:
Audible put out a new ad that is weirdly judgy about what speed you listen at:
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Mark:
2025 Philip K. Dick Award nominees announced (including a couple of S+L authors)
CITY OF DANCING GARGOYLES by Tara Campbell (Santa Fe Writers Project)
YOUR UTOPIA: STORIES by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin Books)
TIME’S AGENT by Brenda Peynado (Tordotcom)
THE PRACTICE, THE HORIZON, AND THE CHAIN by Sofia Samatar (Tordotcom)
ALIEN CLAY by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit)
TRIANGULUM by Subodhana Wijeyeratne (Rosarium Publishing)
First prize and any special citations will be announced on Friday, April 18, 2025, at Norwescon 47.
Visit the Philip K. Dick Award website
Onyx Storm (Book 3) by Rebecca Yarros is out January 21st.
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Mark:
Virtual discussion of comfort reads with KJ Charles, T Kingfisher, Malka Older, and Martha Wells, this Sunday, January 19, free to attend"
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Feedback from the audience
Stephen:
Being in Thailand now, I get to celebrate 3 New Years. I am already done with 2025. I get the Chinese New Year, Year of the Snake, on Jan 29th, then in April I get the Thai New Year, which is a week-long water fight with super soakers in the streets.
Trike:
Interesting that Veronica mentioned wanting to use twinkly lights as decoration because last week I mentioned something similar to Mrs. Trike. We have faux wooden rafters across our ceiling, and I said that we could wrap remote-controlled battery-powered LEDs around them for movie-watching ambiance.
…And immediately ran into the issue of how to get 12 feet up to install them and then change batteries. :p
But it did send me down the rabbit hole of looking at decorating with fairy lights that isn’t Christmas (or college dorm).
<-- Tom's note: Trike's house is entirely unrealistically clean
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
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Interview with Kaliane Bradley
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