S&L Podcast - #337 - Hackers, but Bears
/Well we are certainly interested in Molly Gloss after that Ursula K. Leguin blurb, we’re mad on behalf of Chuck Wendig, each for different reasons, and coincidentally Zeroes by Chuck Wendig is our next pick. Plus we wrap up the journey that is Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country.
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?T
Tom: Sidral Mundet
Veronica: Nope
QUICK BURNS
Joe: Saga Press will be re-publishing 3 novels and a brand new story collection from Molly Gloss in 2019. I've read The Dazzle of Day and thought it was fantastic. I've been thinking about it and mentioning it to folks more than a decade after reading it. It's only grown in my esteem.
The pull quote from the announcement is from a conversation Joe Monti had with Ursula K. Le Guin: “Yes. Outside the Gates. They published it as young adult, but I never thought that was fully the right audience. Terrible cover. But if you brought it back into print, I’d blurb the shit out of that.”
Dara: Chuck Wendig was fired for being vocal on Twitter
Mark: The season finale of IRL: Online Life is Real Life features audio presentation of a pair of speculative fiction short stories describing what elections might look like in the future. Authors are Malka Older and Genevieve Valentine. Host of IRL is the Supreme Sword.
Dara: How a fan fiction for Cixin Liu’s Three-Body Problem became an official novel via The Verge. Spoilers marked in the article. Interesting piece.
Mark: This list by Reading Glasses' Mallory O'Meara was tailor-made for the Supreme Sword ;-)
10 Great Horror Books for Wimps
Mark: 2018 British Fantasy Award winners announced
BARE YOUR SWORD
My 2019 'no new books' reading challenge
@swordandlaser Loved the Dresden series with Paul Blackthorne!
"Lovecraft Country: A Novel" by Matt Ruff @Scribd
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION
WRAP UP Lovecraft Country: A Novel by Matt Ruff
LC: If you enjoyed tangential Lovecraft, try these next
LC: The Green Book
NEXT MONTH: We're moving around our normal recording times to accomodate for the Thanksgiving holiday in the US among a couple other things. So that means the next episode will come out three weeks from now on November 15 then one on November 29th then we make up for the three weeks with a one week break and come right back on December 5th and we're back on schedule.
