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The Sunday Morning Transport is a newsletter that will begin publishing weekly speculative short fiction in January 2022.https://thetransport.substack.com/about
Juian Yap, founder of Serial Box/Realm, is editor-in-chief, and Fran Wilde is managing editor. S&L read her novel Updraft a few years ago. Some of the authors who will writing for SMT are Max Gladstone, Karen Lord, Elwin Cotman, Kij Johnson, Kat Howard, Elsa Sjunnesson, Kathleen Jennings, Sarah Monette, Juan Martinez, E.C. Myers, Maureen McHugh, Tessa Gratton, Sarah Pinsker, Yoon Ha Lee, Michael Swanwick, Brian Slattery, Malka Older. Subscriptions will be 7 USD/month of 70 USD/year, but there is also a free subscription level. Free subscribers receive one story a month. Paid subscribers receive one story each week, fifty weeks a year.
Andrew Liptak wrote about SMT in his newsletter
https://transfer-orbit.ghost.io/fran-...
Trike wrote: "Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: Inspired by True Events is fan-tastic. It’s not sci-fi, but it is SF-adjacent, as Spiner uses ST:TNG as his jumping-off place."One of my favorite reads of 2021. I plan to gift myself the audiobook because so many people have been laughing as they listen.
Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "Veronica you mention Daryl Gregory in passing, was that in reference to another discussion? I searched the forums but couldn't find anything"V mentioned seeing The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory on several year-end book listicles. Descriptions of the novella are pretty interesting. Possible future S&L pick?
https://darylgregory.com/books/album-...
Ok, taking the redditreads thread over to Quick Burns discussions before the Roberator drops in and applies the hammerhttps://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
From the Quick Burns thread on redditreads, the subreddits for TV & Film are full of very focused and some broader lists of genre books. Take a look at these:https://www.redditreads.com/r/dune
https://www.redditreads.com/r/firefly
https://www.redditreads.com/r/gameoft...
https://www.redditreads.com/r/LV426
https://www.redditreads.com/r/scifi
https://www.redditreads.com/r/startrek
Moar book lists from counting reddit mentions!!reddit reads: Book mentions are found by checking every reddit comment for links to Amazon, Goodreads, Google Books, and O'Rielly Media. Non-link mentions are too tricky to parse in an unbiased way: books with short, simple titles like The Road get massively under- or over-counted.
https://www.redditreads.com/r/science...
https://www.redditreads.com/r/Fantasy
https://www.redditreads.com/r/audiobooks
https://www.redditreads.com/
Ruth wrote: "I’ve been reading some of the novellas Tor dot com kindly gave me last year. Just finished Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather which was an excellent science fiction adventure story about nuns in space who live on a giant slug. I’ve preordered the sequel which comes out next year."I got a kick out of the nuns in space. I've preordered the sequel too.
I looked back at what I spent to read along with S&L this year and realized I had five years worth of S&L expenses recorded.2017 $56.21
2018 $54.23
2019 $50.62
2020 $58.31
2021 $70.22
Most years, I get a few S&L picks from the library, a few I've purchased preemptively at Kindle sales, a few purchased used, and a few that I purchase new. The total for 2021 is higher than previous years because I splurged on an ARC from eBay for this month's pick. S&L picks only represent part of what I spend on books and comics. Reading this thread and lurking in the Discord, I wind up buying many more books that are discussed. If only I could read them all.
Edit: I also found an ARC of Pandora's Star on eBay and bought it. That will bump up my 2022 total.
Sheila Jean wrote: "Thanks for setting this up again!"Ditto
As of December 1 I'm atSword 19/30
Laser 17/30
Comics 30/24
Shorts 7/24
Goodreads 83/100
so I won't complete the challenge this year. Concentrating on reading has been difficult. For 2022, I'll lower my expectations and drop counting short stories. I was going to drop the short story challenge this year but I kept it when there was an early flurry of shorts that were cataloged in Goodreads. I still think the challenges are helpful even if I don't complete them.
Hope to finish out the year with this month's pick, plus Elysium Fire, Jade Legacy and Leviathan Falls.
Breaking news: The featured book on Tom's studio bookshelves changed from Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol by Mallory O'Meara to Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee
Jade Legacy, the 3rd and final novel in the Green Bone Saga just dropped!!See previous post for "running jumping flapping crazed shouting"
Tamahome wrote: "Maybe Tom and Veronica will sing the wheel of time song on the next episode."Which song? There seem to be many.
Rogue, Renegade And RebelRenegades, Rebels, and Rogues
Making Waves: Renegades, Rebels, & Rogues Box Set
Renegades, Rebels and Rogues Under the Tsars
Renegades, Rebels & Rogues
What about Renegade Reads?
