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Lisa and Shachi discuss the Earthseed series, written by Octavia E. Butler including Parable of the Sower narrated by Lynne Thigpen; and Parable of the Talents narrated by Patricia R. Floyd, Sisi Aisha Johnson & Peter Jay Fernandez. Discussion does include spoilers for the series. They also begin with discussion of the Booker Prize 2024 Longlist. Parable of the Sower [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Parable of the Talents [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Booker Prize 2024  Orbital [Libro.fm] / [Episode 235] James [Libro.fm] / [Episode 250] Wandering Stars [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 255] Note: Listeners may notice some technical issues with the audio for this week’s audio. We apologize for any inconvenience.  

Author Jessica Max Stein joined Lisa to discuss her new book Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography, narrated by Will Tulin. Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography [Libro.fm] / [

Lisa shares her discussions with authors at Readercon 33. Readercon Carlos Hernández: [Website] / [Facebook] / [Instagram] Sal and Gabi Break the Universe [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Lincoln in the Bardo (Written by: George Saunders / Narrated by: Full Cast) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] C.S.E. Cooney: [Linktree] / [Blog] / [Instagram] / [Facebook] Saint Death's Daughter [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Starlings (Written by: Jo Walton / Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney & Rudy Sanda) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Combat-Ready Kitchen (Written by: Anastacia Marx de Salcedo / Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Desdemona and the Deep [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Dawn (Written by: Octavia E. Butler / Narrated by: Julienne Irons) [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Ambassador [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Nomad [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This week, Lisa and Scott discussed Rakesfall, written by Vajra Chandrasekera and narrated by Shiromi Arserio. Rakesfall [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Saint of Bright Doors [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 223]  This is How You Lose the Time War [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]  

Lisa and Scott discuss the 2024 Hugo Award Finalists for Best Novel. 2024 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 199]  The Saint of Bright Doors [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 223]  Starter Villain [Audible] Some Desperate Glory [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Translation State [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 210] Witch King [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 206]

This week Lisa shares her mid-year 2024 book recommendations and what she is looking forward to in the second half of the year. Shachi shares a mini review of Bunyan and Henry; Or, the Beautiful Destiny, written by Mark Cecil and narrated by Tanis Parenteau, Ari Fliakos, and JD Jackson. Novels: The Warm Hands of Ghosts [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Those Beyond the Wall [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 248] The Stardust Grail [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 260] Mirrored Heavens [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 262] Service Model [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 257] Someone You Can Build a Nest In [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]  / [Episode 253] Kinning [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 246] Rakesfall (Written by: Vajra Chandrasekera / Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio) The Dead Cat Tail Assassins (Written by: P. Djeli Clark / Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman) Loka (Written by: S.B. Di

This week we discussed Mirrored Heavens, book 3 of the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, written by Rebecca Roanhorse and narrated by Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, Shyla Lefner, Nicole Lewis, Kairyn Potts & Shaun Taylor-Corbett. Mirrored Heavens [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Fevered Star [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Black Sun [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This week, Lisa and Scott continue their look at the 2024 Hugo Finalists with the Best Series category. 2024 Hugo Finalists - Best Series: The Final Architecture (Series): Shards of Earth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Imperial Radch (Series): Ancillary Justice [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Laundry Files (Series): The Atrocity Archives [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Laundry Files: an updated chronology by: Charlie Stross The Last Binding (Series): A Marvellous Light [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] October Daye (Series): Rosemary and Rue [Libro.fm] / [Audible] The Universe of Xuya (Series): Seven of Infinities [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]  / [Audible] The Universe of Xuya by: Aliette de Bodard 2024 Hugo Episodes: 254: 2024 Hugo Finalists - Best Novella 261: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Series  

This week we discussed The Stardust Grail, written by Yume Kitasei and narrated by Katharine Chin. Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing an audio review copy of The Stardust Grail for today’s episode. The Stardust Grail [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Interdependency (Series) [Audible]   The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 199] Wayfarers (Series) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Terraformers [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This week we discussed Lost Ark Dreaming, written by Suyi Davies Okungbowa and narrated by Emeka Emecheta, Nneka Okoye, Ore Apampa-Araba, Délé Ogundiran, Nene Nwoko, Ike Amadi. We also shared some of our recent short fiction listens in our Short Fiction Spotlight. Lost Ark Dreaming [Audible] The Scourge Between Stars [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Deep [ Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]  The Space Between Worlds [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] /  [Audible] Short Fiction Spotlight: “Over a Long Time Ago” written by Nisi Shawl, narrated by Alison Belle Bews [Lightspeed] - May 2024 (Issue 168) ”Old People's Folly” written by Nora Schinnerl, narrated by Tatiana Grey [Escape Pod 935] / [Escape Pod 936] ”Tell the King” written by Natalia Theodoridou, narrated by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko [Beneath Ceaseless Skies] - Issue 401, Feb 22, 2024 “The Three Thousand, Four Hundred Twenty-Third Law of Robotics” written by Adam-Troy Castro, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki [Lightspeed] - March 2024 (Is

This week we discussed Archangels of Funk, written by Andrea Hairston and narrated by January LaVoy. Archangels of Funk [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Author Interviews from Arisia - Part II [Episode 241] Redwood and Wildfire [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Will Do Magic for Small Change [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Station Eleven [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Past is Red [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] ”The Year without Sunshine” written by Naomi Kritzer, narrated by Erika Ensign [Uncanny Magazine] - Issue Fifty-Five A Song for a A New Day [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This week we discussed Service Model, written and narrated by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing an audio review copy of Service Model for today’s episode. Service Model [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] And Put Away Childish Things [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Murderbot Diaries (Series) - All Systems Red [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Phantom Tollbooth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive] /[Audible] The Past is Red [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Logan’s Run (1976) [IMDb] You Look Like a Thing and I Love You [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This week we discussed The Brides of High Hill, book 5 of the Spring Hills Cycle series, written by Nghi Vo and narrated by Cindy Kay. We also shared some of our recent short fiction listens in our Short Fiction Spotlight. The Brides of High Hill [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Short Fiction Spotlight: ”Chug the Tea Leaves, Chuck the Ads” written by Tim Chawaga, narrated by James Kaku Pierson [Escape Pod 938] ”The Last Oracle of Atlantic City” written by C.H. Irons, narrated by Elie Hirschman [Escape Pod 922] ”Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole” written by Isabel J. Kim, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 209 ”Geminoid” written by Malena Salazar Maciá, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 210 ”Variant Cover: Pantone Sunset” written by Marie Vibbert, narrated by Rebecca Wei Hsieh [Escape Pod 939] ”Binomial Nomenclature and the Mother of Happiness” written by Alexandra Munck, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 208

This week we discussed Wandering Stars, written by Tommy Orange, and narrated by Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cuervo, Curtis Michael Holland, Calvin Joyal, Phil Ava, Emmanuel Chumaceiro, Christian Young, Charley Flyte . Wandering Stars [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] There There [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Roots [Audible] The Berry Pickers [Libro.fm] To Shape a Dragon's Breath [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Between Earth and Sky (series): Black Sun [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 82] Calling for a Blanket Dance [Libro.fm] A Council of Dolls [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Stealing [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

Lisa and Scott discuss the 2024 Hugo Award Finalists for Best Novella. 2024 Hugo Finalists - Best Novella: “Life Does Not Allow Us to Meet” - Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers [Overdrive/Libby] / [Amazon] Mammoths at the Gates [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 226] The Mimicking of Known Successes [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 201] Rose/House [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Thornhedge [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] “Seeds of Mercury” - Adventures in Space: New Short stories by Chinese & English Science Fiction Writers [Overdrive/Libby] / [Amazon]  

This week we discussed Someone You Can Build a Nest In, written by John Wiswell, and narrated by Carmen Rose. Someone You Can Build a Nest In [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Walking Practice [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 232] The Galaxy, and the Ground Within with Author Becky Chambers [Episode 97] A Psalm for the Wild Built [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 113] Legends & Lattes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 150] Bookshops & Bonedust [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]  / [Episode 227]

This week we are sharing our Short Fiction Spotlight, along with sine mini reviews of longer works. Short Fiction Spotlight: ”Scalp” written by H.H. Pak, narrated by Kate Baker [Clarkesworld] - Issue 209 ”The Alien in My Bathtub” written by Tony Dunnell, narrated by Bryce Dahle [Escape Pod 934] ”Summiting the Moon” written by Pragathi Bala, narrated by S.B. Divya [Escape Pod 933] ”The Best-Ever Cosplay of Whistle and Midnight” written by Analee Newitz, narrated by Erika Ensign [Uncanny Magazine - 57B] ”How to Pass as Human” written by Raiff Taranday, narrated by Alasdair Stuart [Escape Pod 927] ”Night Desk Duty at the Infinite Paradox Hotel” written by Aimee Ogden, narrated by Stefan Rudnicki [Lightspeed] Mini Reviews: A Deadly Inside Scoop: written by Abby Collette / Narrated by: Chandra Skyye [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] A Game of Cones: written by Abby Collette / Narrated by: Chandra Skyye [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] All Souls Lost>: written by Dan Moren / Narrated by: Mirr

This week we discussed Jumpnauts, written by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu, and narrated by Catherine Ho. Jumpnaut [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Vagabonds [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 81] 3 Body Problem (2024) [IMDb] / [Netflix] Rendezvous with Rama [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This time we discussed James, written by Percival Everett and narrated by Dominic Hoffman Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Penguin Random House Audio for providing audio review copies of James for today’s episode. James [Libro.fm] Adventures of Huckleberry Finn narrated by Elijah Wood [Audible] ”This Amazing Troubling Book” by Toni Morrison The Trees [Libro.fm]

This time we discussed Annie Bot, written by Sierra Greer and narrated by Jennifer Jill Araya. Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program, HarperAudio, and Mariner Books for providing review copies of Annie Bot for today’s episode. Annie Bot [Libro.fm] Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction [Episode 200] Klara and the Sun [Libro.fm] / [Episode 110]  The Mountain in the Sea [Libro.fm] / [Episode 172] The Stepford Wives [Libro.fm] Know My Name [Libro.fm]