S&L Podcast - #408 - You Can't Spell Young Adult without Adult

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WorldCon is delayed but it's not canceled and we have other awards to tide you over. Plus the hard scifi argument over Blindsight rises like a vampire at night and we kick off our April read, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune with special guest host from Reading Envy Jenny Colvin!

WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

Tom: MR. BROWN Iced Coffee – Caramel Latte

Jenny: Potter's Craft Cider - Strawberry Ginger Cider

QUICK BURNS

WorldCon 2021 has been delayed from August to December 15th through the 19th.

Jan: Tor.com reports that HarperColllins will release a special new omnibus edition of Lord of the Rings that will feature Tolkien's own drawings created for the trilogy.

Mark: Lost Russian made-for-tv adaptation of Lord of the Rings found; now on Youtube

Mark: The 2021 Lammy finalists for LGBTQ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror are in. Winners in all categories to be announced June 1 at a virtual Lammys ceremony which is free for all to attend.

Mark: The 2021 Philip K. Dick Award Winner for distinguished original science fiction paperback published for the first time during 2020 in the U.S.A.

Jan: And the British Science Fiction Awards have been awarded as well --- the winner for Best Novel is The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin!

Jan: Geek & Sundry "Critical Role" will in partnership with Penguin Random House and Del Rey publish its first fantasy novel "Kith & Kin will hit shelves October 26, 2021.


BARE YOUR SWORD

"In our Discord: PuzzleBound — Yesterday at 2:05 PM

I just finished The Goblin Emperor and went back and listened to the related S&L episodes from 2015. I came for the Goblin Emperor discussion but stayed for everything else. The time capsule nature of the podcasts are so great. Debates about how HBO could best finish Game of Thrones, the perfect tv show, now that we've caught up to the books. Hype around Station Eleven featuring a far fetched global pandemic. The imminent release of Book 4 of The Gentlemen Bastards series. Full confidence in the awesomeness of a Ready Player One helmed by Steven Spielberg. A nice reminder of how unknowable the future is."

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" TT Linse @tt_linse

@swordandlaser Seriously, you all are manna from heaven for lonely readers in the hinterlands!!"

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"Also from Discord: Aaron Bell — 04/05/2021

Reading/listening Blindsight for another book club. this one has been on my list for a long time. So do space-faring vampires make it a Sword or a Laser? It seems to lean heavily to the latter, but I am only 15% in.

It looks like this was an S&L read back in 2011.

Tassie Dave — 04/05/2021

I remember at the time that Blindsight was pitched as being ""Hard Science Fiction"" which a few people had a problem with, because Vampires. :face_with_raised_eyebrow: :bat: :vampire: :bat: I think most people see it as sci-fi, but maybe not Hard sci-fi. " https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/537291-is-this-truly-hard-sci-fi

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Terpkristin: SOOOO excited to see Jenny as guest host! Also wow a book I voted for won. This is the first time that's happened in March Madness I think. :)

BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

Reading the runner up Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

KICKOFF

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune


Thanks Jenny from Reading Envy

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