S&L Podcast - #427 - Dead Family Trees

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Congrats Murderbot! In congratulations, we will let you watch your dramas unbothered by human emotions. We wonder some about Chengdu. And we not only kick off our January pick, but wrap up our December one too!

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WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

Tom: St. Francis Anthem

Veronica: Apothic Red

QUICK BURNS

Mark: 2021 Murderbot Hugo Awards

Silvana: Complete list of 2021 Hugo Award, Astounding and Lodestar winners

Ruth: Chengdu, China has been selected as the host city for the 81st WorldCon in 2023

Jan: Goodreads has published their readers' most anticipated books of 2022. In the Science Fiction & Fantasy category we have.

And KristyH tipped us off to one from TOR

John: Last year I was introduced to the Book Riot reading log

BARE YOUR SWORD

Drake Tungsten

@turtleismytotem

Found 10 books on my @goodreads list via NPR's book section. Found 16 of my books via

@swordandlaser Book Club.

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Beth Mitcham

@MitchamBeth

AURORA RISING, Alastair Reynolds. I liked the mix of comfortable tropes (he mentors the unwanted gems of the service! evil AIs!) and Cool SF ideas (the Clockmaker, the Glitter band). I hope a future book features the pigmen.

@swordandlaser

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I learned about The StoryGraph from the host of another podcast

Justine (AuroraLee in all the places)"

BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

QUICK KICK OFF

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (Amazon link)

Book Briefing

WRAP UP

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

TIoOD: Would it be better if it was linear?

TIoOD: Audiobook

TIoOD: Have you seen the movie Encanto?

S&L Podcast - #426 - Pillow Friends

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End of year book lists for days! Who can take on Arthur C. Clarke and pillow friends?

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WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

Tom: Egg Nog
Veronica: Water

QUICK BURNS

Ruth: The Goodreads Choice winners have been announced!

Jan: Lithub has released their list of best reviewed Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror books of 2021. The site pulled reviews from more than 150 sources to get to their list.

Paul: The New York Times has its list of Best SFF of the year, as curated by Amal El-Mohtar (co-author of How to Lose the Time War among other things).

Zomino: End of the year lists keep coming (Best Scifi of 2021 from Polygon)

There were also book lists from The Guardian UK, several based on Reddit mentions

RMutt1917 and Louie - Denis Villeneuve is set to adapt the Arthur C. Clarke classic, Rendezvous with Rama, with Morgan Freeman as a producer, who previously held the rights to the novel.

Mark: Tor.com announced the table-of-contents for Some of the Best from Tor.com 2021.

Mark: The Sunday Morning Transport is a newsletter that will begin publishing weekly speculative short fiction in January 2022.

BARE YOUR SWORD

Rob: “Thanks to 34 donors, we've had our best year yet. Not only did we break our previous high of 30 donors, but we also broke our previous donation amount by just over $450 for a grand total of $6,203!
Thanks again to everyone who donated to our team."

Tamahome
Idea for a future show title: Pillow Friends

@markmtz
steampunk and synthwave computer created art. I have no idea what these images are based on, but they're kind of interesting; from http://womba.art"

BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova

elianara — 12/12/2021
Started reading it, or really listening to the audiobook. If someone else has problems following along with all the members of the family, I found the family tree on the author's website "

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