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For October, we could scratch the spoopy itch and the Mieville effect in one swell foop with Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire).
Trike wrote: "A couple days ago I watched Kpop Demon Hunters and it really made me feel old, in the sense that I do not get the appeal at all."For the next podcast, we need Tom to provide some remedial K-Pop instruction.
The Hugo stats were published yesterday, but they didn't include nomination stats. I guess those will come later. That means we don't know if the Sword and Laser podcast was nominated. WorldCon 2025 is in Anaheim next year, Tom's back yard. Maybe we should try another push to get the podcast nominated.
Iain wrote: "The Hugo’s have been announced "We read City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett...
We read Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse.
We read The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo.
The Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book was awarded to Darcie Little Badger for Sheine Lende, a prequel to a book we read, Elatsoe.
Iain wrote: "The Hugo’s have been announced "Wait! You left out the most astounding Hugo, the one for best graphic novel by Ryan North and Chris Fenoglio...
LOWER DECKS! LOWER DECKS! LOWER DECKS!
Maybe Mr. Collins was using an x-ray camera.
Tamahome wrote: "Abercrombie at V's house!"
I live in New Mexico, land of no major league professional sports teams. When I went to college in the Boston area, I went to my first first major league baseball game at Fenway Park. Bleacher seats at Fenway were $5 in those days, the only pro sports ticket that cheap, and of course, there was beer. For that reason I became a Red Sox fan. Watching on tv isn't the same, but there is still beer.
Mr. Chu: you wrote Typhoon, an entertaining tale in the Walking Dead universe, back in 2019. Are there other science fiction, fantasy, and/or horror franchises that you would like to visit and chronicle?
Trike wrote: "Mon dieu, mon capitan! Je n'aurais pas dû porter une chemise rouge!"Spock: Mon pantalon est rouge aussi!
Star Trek in French?
John (Taloni) wrote: "^^ Random free association, after seeing Kolchak the Night Stalker as a kid (whatever was on broadcast), I finally got around to seeing the entire series including the original two-day TV movie tha..."Where is the original Kolchak tv movie streaming?
Tassie Dave wrote: ""What happened to your feet?
Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Humble Bundle17 books for $18 with a donation to the ACLU
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/ro...
TechCrunch interviewed China Miéville. He has a new book coming out next year and social media is one of the worst things to happen to humanity for a long time.https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/30/aut...
SFWA Names Nicola Griffith as the 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Masterhttps://nebulas.sfwa.org/41st-grand-m...
My local library has the first three DCC books in print, but no ebook or audiobook editions, which is unusual for recent releases. No matter though, I bought a copy of DCC months ago and I've been buying the later volumes too. I've had moderate success requesting purchase of new books from my library, but lately, a couple of books I've requested are in some kind of "in process" holding pattern that never ends. Maybe it's budget issues.
This is old news, but relevant to our April pick...https://deadline.com/2024/08/dungeon-...
There doesn't seem to be any recent news about DCC in development, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see if anything happens.
In the tv adaptation, the writers tried to give Borlu a more interesting backstory, but I don't think they succeeded. I think it just made more of a tv policeman.
