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Dune by Frank Herbert wasn't a paperback original, but the copy I read was the mass market paperback edition
Our August pick, Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett, was a 2015 Philip K. Dick Award Special Citation selection.
An early S+L pick, published as a paperback original
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Won a Hugo, Nebula, two Locus awards, and the Philip K. Dick Award which is given to the best original paperback published each year in the US.
Yes, July 30, today, is Paperback Book Dayhttps://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/pa...
What's your favorite paperback?
There were reports of widespread internet outages in southern California, including Los Angeles, the evening this podcast was recorded. Must have affected Tom.https://www.businessinsider.com/spect...
Then earthquake this morning. Do we still have a Supreme Laser?
Do we need a gofundme to move Tom and Veronica to a less dangerous locale. Where should we move them?
Tamahome wrote: "Wait, John Taloni is George R. R. Martin?"No hat, no suspenders, no GRRM
US Space Force Horse of coursehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNC7b...
The first space horse?
Mister Ed S2 E2 - The Horsetronaut
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5r...
2020 World Fantasy Awards finalists announced...https://locusmag.com/2020/07/2020-wor...
Nominated for Best Novel are
Queen of the Conquered by Kacen Callender
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
Interesting article on the Legend of Korra by Jeannette NgThe Inescapable Whiteness of AVATAR: THE LEGEND OF KORRA, and its Uncomfortable Implications
https://medium.com/@nettlefish/the-in...
Pandemic resurgance of mass market paperbacks? Read Cory Doctorow's interesting tweet thread on bookselling past and present...https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1...
The NY Times article linked in the thread: How to Sell Books in 2020: Put Them Near the Toilet Paper
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/bo...
Losing Gravity is Kameron Hurley's next book, scheduled for publication in 2021.The pitch: Killing Eve meets Die Hard, in space!
The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes has been greenlit for an Apple television series.https://deadline.com/2020/07/elisabet...
The 2013 novel won a variety of horror/crime/thriller awards. The Deadline article just calls the novel a thriller. Don't be fooled. It's a science fiction thriller and a good one.
You've told us the backstory of Enterprise crew member Yeoman Leslie Thompson. Are there any other Star Trek tales you'd like to tell?
Jenny (Reading Envy) wrote: "I had to take a break after the danger slugs."Danger Slugs needs to be a comic or a movie!
The Tor.com ebook club selection this month is Silver in the Wood by Emily Teshhttps://ebookclub.tor.com/
Download before 11:59 PM ET, July 24th, 2020.
The cast of Warrior Nun is live-tweeting episodes every Wednesday. First episode was last week #WarriorNunWednesday 5pm ET/ 10pm GMT/ 2pm PST. Episode two this week, to be scheduled.
Tamahome wrote: "What's the deal with Greg Rucka's The Old Guard trade paperback? You can't just pick it up in a bookstore since the movie adaption?"It's available on Hoopla. Check your local public library.
Time to pre-order The Old Guard, Book Two: Force Multiplied coming Sep 2020
A free 100+ page sneak peek of The Living Dead by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus is available on Kindlehttps://www.amazon.com/Living-Dead-Sn...
The book will be published August 4.
More info at https://io9.gizmodo.com/george-romero...
