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This week we discussed If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, written by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver, and narrated by Jefferson Mays. Discussion with Mark and Scott. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Tackling the To Be Listened List [Episode 67] Cloud Atlas [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Starless Sea [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 55] The Expanse (Series) [Libro.fm]  / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 128]

This week we discussed Bookshops & Bonedust, the upcoming prequel to Legends and Lattes, written and narrated by Travis Baldree. We also briefly discussed the 2023 Hugo Awards. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing an audio review copy of Bookshops & Bonedust for today’s episode. Bookshops & Bonedust [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Legends & Lattes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 150]

This week we discussed Mammoths at the Gates, written by Nghi Vo and narrated by Cindy Kay. We also shared some of our favorite recent short fiction listens in our audio short fiction spotlight. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. Mammoths at the Gates [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Light From Uncommon Stars [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 141]  Starling House [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 225] ”Destination Star” written by Gregory Marlow, narrated by LeVar Burton [Levar Burton Reads] - 20 Feb 23 ”All Summer in a Day” written by Ray Bradbury ”The Breaks” written by Scott King, narrated by Alicia Atkins [Cast of Wonders 552] - 24 Sep 23 ”There’s Magic in Bread” written by Effie Seiberg, narrated by Gigi Yelen [Fantasy Magazine] - Mar 2023 (Issue 89) ”The Tenth Life” written by Sheryl R. Hayes, narrated by Alethea Kontis [CatsCast - Ep 15] - Ep 15 (May 2023) ”The Adoration of Random Strangers” written by Azure Arther, narrated by Tonia Ransom [

This week we discussed Starling House, written by Alix E. Harrow and narrated by Natalie Naudus. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for providing an audio review copy of Starling House for today’s episode. Starling House [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Fractured Fables (Series): A Spindle Splintered [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Mexican Gothic [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Spring Hills Cycle (Series): The Empress of Salt and Fortune [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] /  [Audible]   The Hazel Wood [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Scholomance (Series): A Deadly Education [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]  / [Audible] The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This week we discussed He Who Drowned the World, Shelley Parker-Chan and narrated by Natalie Naudus. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. He Who Drowned the World [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] She Who Became The Sun [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] 158: 2022 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel The Poppy War [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]

This week we discussed The Saint of Bright Doors, written by Vajra Chandrasekera and narrated by Sid Sagar. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. The Saint of Bright Doors [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Locked Tomb (Series): Gideon the Ninth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Victory City [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Green Bone Saga (Series): Jade City [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Blue Skinned Gods [Libro.fm]  Where I Can’t Follow [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] We Could Be Heroes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]  

This week we discussed audio short fiction including where to find it and some of our recent listens. Escape Artists Podcasts: [Escape Pod] / [PodCastle] / [PseudoPod] / [Cast of Wonders] / [CatsCast] Uncanny Magazine Podcast Levar Burton Reads The Clarkesworld Podcast Lightspeed Podcast Beneath Ceaseless Skies khōréō Magazine Fantasy Magazine Kaleidocast Nightlight The Drabblecast Upbeat Tales Tall Tale TV / [Episode 23] StarShipSofa Apex Magazine Strange Horizons Glittership Available Audio for 2023 Hugo Best Short Story & Best Novelette Finalists: ”D.I.Y.” [PodCastle 800] ”Rabbit Test” [Uncanny Magazine Podcast 49A] ”The Difference Between Love and Time”: Someone in Time [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] ”A Dream of Electric Mothers”: Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] ”If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” [Uncanny Magazine Podcast 47B] ”Murder By Pixel: Crime and Responsibility in the Digital Darkness

This week, we continued our 2023 awards discussion with the finalists for the 2023 Lodestar Award. Discussion with Lisa and Scott. 2023 Lodestar Finalists: Akata Woman [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Golden Enclaves [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 174] Bloodmarked [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] In the Serpents Wake [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 149] 2023 Hugo Episodes: 213: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novella 217: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel 219: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Series Narrated on Bluesky: Lisa: @lisajune.bsky.social Scott: @sullery.bsky.social Shachi:@sundrybookclub.bsky.social Mark: @marksiegal.bsky.social  

This week we discussed Silver Nitrate, written by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and narrated by Gisela Chípe. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Penguin Random House Audio for providing an audio review copy of Silver Nitrate for today’s episode. Silver Nitrate [Libro.fm] The Daughter of Doctor Moreau [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Episode 217: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel Ring Shout [Overdrive/Libby] / [Libro.fm] / [Audible] Siren Queen [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 153] Prime Meridian (ebook) [Overdrive/Libby]

This week, we continued our look at the 2023 Hugo Finalists with the Best Series category. Lisa on Bluesky: @lisajune.bsky.social 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Series: Children of Time (Series): Children of Time [Audible] The Founders Trilogy (Series): Foundryside [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] October Daye (Series): Rosemary and Rue [Libro.fm] / [Audible] The Locked Tomb (Series): Gideon the Ninth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Rivers of London (Series): Midnight Riot [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Scholomance (Series): A Deadly Education [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]  / [Audible] 2023 Hugo Episodes: 213: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novella 217: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel 219: 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Series  

This week we discussed More Perfect, written by Temi Oh  and narrated by Nneka Okoye and Adam Courting. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. More Perfect [Overdrive/Libby] We are Satellites [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 120] Do You Dream of Terra-Two? [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]  Discipline and Punish [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible Plus]  Machinehood [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 120]  Minority Report (2002) [IMDb] Inception (2010) [IMDb]  

This week, we had a great time discussing the 2023 Hugo Finalists for Best Novel with three special guests. Hugo, Girl! Podcast [Website] / [Twitter] / [Mastadon] / [Instagram] / [Facebook] Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog [Blog] / [Mastadon] Hugos There Podcast [Website] / [Twitter] 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novel: The Daughter of Doctor Moreau [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Kaiju Preservation Society [Audible] / [Episode 144] Legends & Lattes [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 150] Nona the Ninth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 171] Nettle & Bone [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Spare Man [Audible] / [Episode 176]  Other Referenced Works: The Island of Doctor Moreau [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Mexican Gothic [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Winter Tide [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]   Lock In (series) [Audible] Gideon the Ninth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]   Harrow the Nint

This time we discussed Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw, a memoir written and narrated by Eddie Ndopu. Review & discussion with Lisa and Shachi. Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Hachette Audio for providing an audio review copy of Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw for today’s episode. Sipping Dom Pérignon Through a Straw [Libro.fm] Sitting pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body [Libro.fm] Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century [Libro.fm] Disability Visibility (Adapted for Young Adults): First-Person Stories for Today [Libro.fm] A Mind Unraveled [Libro.fm] Babel [Libro.fm] / [Episode 169] Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space [Libro.fm]  

More discussions from Readercon 32. Readercon John Wiswell: [Newsletter] / [Patreon] / [Linktree] Someone You Can Build a Nest In (April 2, 2024) [Penguin Random House]  ”Bad Doors” [Uncanny]  ”The Coward Who Stole God’s Name” [Uncanny] / [Psuedopod] ”Under the Rubble” [Psuedopod]  ”The Lie Misses You” [Cast of Wonders]  ”Open House on Haunted Hill” [LeVar Burton Reads]  All the Seas of the World (written by: Guy Gavriel Kay and narrated by: Simon Vance) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Golem and the Jinni (written by: Helene Wecker and narrated by: George Guidall) [Libro.fm] / [Audible] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Episode 14]   The Echo Wife (written by: Sarah Gailey, narrated by: Xe Sands) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Moby Dick (written by: Herman Melville, narrated by: Frank Mullerv) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Noah Beit-Aharon (N.S. Dolkart): [Website] / [Angry Robot] Silent Hall [Audible] Wings of Fire (Series): The Dragonet Prophecy  (written by: Tui T. Sutherl

Sharing our discussions with authors at Readercon 32. Readercon Vajra Chandrasekere: [Website] The Saint of Bright Doors [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible]   Short Stories: [Clarkesworld ] /[“Ulde” - Glittership] Strange Horizons Podcast Nightmare Magazine Glittership Cameron Roberson (Rob Cameron): [Website] / [Tor.com] / [The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction] / [Foreign Policy Magazine] Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers Daydreamer (Forthcoming in Summer 2024) The Silk Roads [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Bloodmarked [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Monsters We Defy [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Saint Death’s Daughter [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Hidden Palace [Libro.fm] / [Audible] / [Overdrive/Libby]   A Master of Djinn [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] LJ Cohen: [Website] / [IndieBound] / [Amazon] Derelict [Overdrive - eBook ] / [Audible] Ithaka Rising [Overdrive - eBook ] / [Audible] For Flux Sake Podcast Clarkeswo

Lisa and Scott discuss the 2023 Hugo Award Finalists for Best Novella. 2023 Hugo Finalists - Best Novella: Into the Riverlands [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] What Moves the Dead [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Even Though I Knew the End [Libro.fm] / [Episode 180] A Mirror Mended [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 157] Ogres  [Audible]  / [Episode 170] Where the Drowned Girls Go [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 135]  

This time on Narrated, we embrace the warmer weather and discuss some of our favorite summer audiobook listens. Round 1: Shachi: The Museum of Ordinary People [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Lisa: Binti [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Scott: The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 199] Round 2: Shachi: VenCo [Libro.fm] / [Episode 195]  Lisa: Space Opera [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Scott: The Kaiju Preservation Society [Audible] / [Episode 144] Round 3: Shachi: A Deadly Inside Scoop [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Lisa: Black Water Sister [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Scott: The Lego Story: How a Little Toy Sparked the World’s Imagination [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Additional Picks: Shachi: Ice Cream Parlor Mystery (series), Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club, Sea Change, The Shamshine Blind, Yellowface Lisa: Lady Astronaut (series), Murderbot Diaries (series), A Fire Upon The Deep, The

This time we discussed The Little Book of Exoplanets, an upcoming look at the latest science on the search and investigation of exoplanets, written and narrated by Joshua N. Winn. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. Thank you to Libro.fm ALC Program and Princeton University Press for providing an audio review copy of The Little Book of Exoplanets for today’s episode. The Little Book of Exoplanets [Libro.fm] Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life Extraterrestrial:The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] First Contact [Episode 177] How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] The Great Courses [Episode 65]  

This time we discussed Translation State, written by Ann Leckie and narrated by Adjoa Andoh. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott. Translation State [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Ancillary Justice [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby]/ [Audible] Food & Drink Audiobook Draft [Episode 72] The Raven Tower [Libro.fm] / [OverDrive/Libby] / [Audible] Remote Control [Libro.fm]   Good Omens (Full Cast Production) [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] Wayfarers (Series):  The Galaxy, and the Ground Within: [Libro.fm] / [Overdrive/Libby] / [Audible] / [Episode 97]  

This time we discussed Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy, the newest middle grade fantasy novel written by Angie Thomas and narrated by Joniece Abbott-Pratt. Review & discussion with Lisa and Scott with special guest Colin (Note: Includes some minor character spoilers). Thank you to Libro.fm ALC program and Balzer + Bray for providing an audio review copy of Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy for the episode. Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy [Libro.fm] The Hate U Give [Libro.fm] / [Episode 71] Concrete Rose [Libro.fm] / [Episode 98] Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods [Libro.fm] / [Episode 149] Amari and the Night Brothers [Libro.fm]