S&L Podcast - #367 - Shitposting Stephen King with Sam Sykes
/We explain why the Tiptree Award is now the Otherwise award, welcome the casting of Apple's Foundation TV show, and Sam Sykes has a message for Stephen King (and Myke Cole).
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: Thomas Allen Selections Generations Red Blend 2016
Veronica: Water
QUICK BURNS
Mark: New Expanse novella coming in December Auberon by James S.A. Corey
TRP: Stephen Moore, the original voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android on radio and TV, has died.
Joanna: The Foundation series for Apple TV starts filming on November 11th in Ireland.
Louie: Lee Pace and Jared Harris join the cast of Foundation, a 10 episode adaptation of the Isaac Asimov classic from Apple TV+. Harris will be Hari Seldon, the psychohistorian who foresees the fall of the galactic empire, while Pace will play Brother Day, the current Emperor of the Galaxy.
Tassie Dave: This years Booker Prize has gone to a SFF book.
It was won jointly by Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernadine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other
This is Atwood's 2nd Booker Prize. She also won in 2000 for The Blind Assassin
Bernadine Evaristo is the first black woman to win the award.”
James Tiptree Jr. was the pen name of Alice Sheldon
On May 19, 1987, she shot first her husband, Huntington Sheldon, and then herself. He was 84 years old; she was 71. He was blind and disabled.
It has been described by some including members of the family as a suicide pact.
Others have come to see it as possibly caregiver murder.
The Tiptree Jr award was started in 1991
To remind audiences of the role gender plays in both reading and writing, the award was named in Sheldon's honor at the suggestion of Karen Joy Fowler.
Otherwise Award, drawing on Black queer feminist scholarship around what is termed ""otherwise politics".
BARE YOUR SWORD
"Sal vs Mags
Wrapping up Trail of Lightning, you compared Mags and Kate Daniels. Would like to hear your thoughts comparing Sal the Cacophony with Mags, since the fall theme seems to be bad-ass women mage/witch/monster hunters.”
Dale
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280 Character Book Review by Beth Mitcham:
Sometimes rereading an old favorite the best way to get over a bad read
Next month:
The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge
INTERVIEW WITH SAM SYKES
