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A podcast by three red-headed fantasy authors talking about everything from academic mythology to dick jokes (and sometimes, both at once), as well as the role of fanfiction as an integral yet oft-overlooked part of the literary conversation and in the broader cultural context. It is, obviously, a podcast of extremely deep literary merit.
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Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Episode 37: Emotions Are Hard, Let's Do Murder!
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
On this week's episode, we're discussing ASSASSINS! Tentpoles this week are The Perfect Assassin by K.A. Doore, the television show Killing Eve, and the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
What We’re Into Lately
The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Hating Game by Sally Thorne
A Duke in Disguise by Cat Sebastian
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Fisherman by John Langan
Ship of Smoke and Steel by Django Wexler
Proper English by K.J. Charles
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
“Episode 10: Spies & Disguise” from Technique Critique
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Think of England by K.J. Charles
“meditations ex post facto” by singlecrow
A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland
A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland
Freya’s amazing new jacket
Ozimandais by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Bourne series
Farseer by Robin Hobbe
BtS patreon
For Next Time
The entire slate of Best Novels from this year's Hugo Award ballot!
Transcript
The transcript for this episode is available here. The scribes are amazing! They're so good!! Yay for scribes!!!
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
Episode 36: There's No Place Like Home
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
Wednesday Jun 05, 2019
On today’s episode we’re discussing magical houses! Are some of them sentient? How do they communicate? Is a haunted house a magical house? The tentpoles this week are: “House Proud” by astolat, House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones, and The Veldt by Ray Bradbury.
What We’re Into Lately
Proper English by KJ Charles
A Prince on Paper Alyssa Cole
Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History by John Julius Norwich
Everything astolat
Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
Other Stuff We Mentioned
Episode 40 Extravaganza!
TARDIS (from Doctor Who)
Victoria Schwab’s series (A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab)
Howl’s Moving Castle and Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Hieros gamos
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard
The Popinjay’s Daughter by Anne Cross
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeannette Ng
Foresight by Freya Marske
For Next Time:
The Perfect Assassin by KA Doore
Transcription:
The transcript of this episode is available here! Thanks as always to our amazing team of scribes.