Dec 25, 2022
It's a retro episode! (We will eventually make it through Nicola Griffith's entire catalog.) This is a book about celebrity, hereditary wealth, toxic relationships and the science of water reclamation, and even though it was written in 1995 it feels extraordinarily current. Recommended.
Dec 12, 2022
In far-future biopunk (ecopunk? mycopunk?) New Zealand, a queer cop joins a pirate gang and ends up on a trip to the fireworks factory. It's all very first novel but it's got good politics.
Nov 28, 2022
In this episode we discuss Our Souls To The Moon by Tamara Jeree, Onward by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, and A Series of Steaks by Vina Jie-Min Prasad. Tune in for Isaac changing his mind completely about one of these stories midway through...
Nov 13, 2022
A young girl growing up in interwar Los Angeles wants to be a star, which turns out to be alarmingly literal, since Hollywood is run by the fair folk. Because of course it is. A fantastically evocative book that solves the nativist magic problem we keep running into.
Oct 30, 2022
This episode is about the Renunciates trilogy, but it is more generally about Marion Zimmer Bradley. We're talking about her because she and her ghostwriters pioneered the wizards vs lesbians genre, and also because it is important to remember that the old SF community harbored, protected and enabled predatory monsters...