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ASUNDER

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 72:32


What if the dude who is possessing you is actually a nice guy? And what if you're the kind of gremlin who can only be fixed by a live-in boyfriend, and by "live-in" I mean in your actual brain?

BONUS: FANGIRL

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 71:55


Masha du Toit joins us to discuss a book about going to college and writing fanficiton which turns out to be laser-targeted at one of our hosts. So what we end up with is a strange mixture of cultural history and personal pain, much like the book itself.

SHORT FICTION ROUNDUP # 6 - 2024 NEBULAS EDITION

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2025 63:57


It's this again! In this episode we discuss the following stories: The V*mpire by P.H. Lee   Katya Vasilevna and the Second Drowning of Baba Rechka by Christine Hanolsy  The Witch Trap by Jennifer Hudak Joanna's Bodies by Eugenia Triantafyllou

ZETA BASE

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2025 58:31


We could do nothing but weird small press lesbian novellas on this podcast and I'd be happy.  This one's about how we really need to blow up the sun but we're too busy having smoldering academic love triangles.

BONUS: SHELL GAME

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 54:54


Lianyu Tan joins us for another foray into literature that started life as Xena AU fanfiction (or Xena Uber, in the parlance of the time.)  This one starts out as a pirate romp featuring the world's brattiest sub/voluntary slave girl and ends up in some really dark places.

FEAST WHILE YOU CAN

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 64:37


This is the most Wizards vs Lesbians book we've covered in ages, and it's also really good. It's a familiar setup - there's a thing in a pit in a little tiny town and the locals have to keep it fed. The beauty's in the execution.

BONUS: THE EXPEDITION (A LOVE STORY)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 59:26


We adventure into the realm of non-fiction - mostly - for the first time, courtesy of Isaac Fellman, who has joined us to discuss a book about two disasters. The first is the Andree Expedition, a real-life polar quest which failed both disastrously and predictably; the second is an exercise for the reader. 

MOBY-DICK

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 115:10


Finally, the all-caps title is correct! During the 2023 Wizzly awards we all said we were going to read Moby Dick by the time the next Wizzlies rolled around, and most of us did. It turns out it's really good. Like, I'd call it the great American novel, at least for the days before women were invented. Has anybody else heard about this?

BONUS: STARS IN MY POCKET LIKE GRAINS OF SAND

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 70:58


We kick off a new series of author's choice episodes with Cameron Reed, who has brought us a novel you can chew on like the ragged edge of a thumbnail. 

THE GOLEM OF BROOKLYN

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 70:00


This book is about whether murdering antisemites is a good idea or not, morally and strategically, and as such it's about Israel without ever discussing Israel, which as a rhetorical gambit has its advantages and disadvantages. One disadvantage is that it's therefore a New York Novel and it comes with all the problems that implies.

BONUS: 4TH ANNUAL WIZZLY AWARDS

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 103:04


We persevere through technical issues to bring you this, our annual extravaganza of self-indulgence. Is it possible four years in that we're actually worse at this than when we started?

A DARK AND DROWNING TIDE

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 62:19


In fantasy Germany a fantasy Jewess and her fantasy Aryan forest princess must go up the river to save the cat, or something.  Not as much blood as you'd expect in this one but there's plenty of soil.

AN EDUCATION IN MALICE

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2025 61:09


We're dipping our toes into Dark Academia here. This book asks the question: what if your abusive academic advisor was literally a vampire? And the answer is it would be kinda cool. A classic example of horror elements blunting the actual horror, down to a 1960s setting that elides all the worst parts of the era.

THE LYREMOUTH CHRONICLES (BOOKS 1 & 2)

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 63:56


This one takes a while to get going - at first it seems like a genderswapped swords & sorcery novel, but it turns out that's only one part of a much larger world. Recommended for Steerswoman fans.

THE MINISTRY OF TIME with Vajra Chandrasekera

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2025 70:22


A book about empire, memory, historical trauma and the consequences of dating your blorbo. Huge thanks to Vajra for suggesting this one and for coming on to talk about it!

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BONUS: THE SUMMER PRINCE

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 29, 2024 64:37


Our esteemed pal P.H. Lee joins us for a rundown of this charming bit of YA. It's Brazilian! It's Really Brazilian!

THE SCORPION RULES

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2024 70:51


We return to the schools that resemble the prisons for a book that predates the Ninth House but has a couple of startling similarities, including a proto-John Gaius Gen-X godhead.

BONUS: Q & A 4 (100 EPISODES!)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 73:31


On the occasion of our 100th mainline episode we treat ourselves by answering your questions.

KILL LA KILL

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2024 67:33


In perhaps our most controversial take yet, we posit that this anime is good, actually. Your tolerance for breast collision physics will factor in whether you agree. 

THE SEEP

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2024 49:55


Helpful alien friends take over the world and make everyone immortal and kind of chill, man. It's a metaphor for something or other. Maybe AI, maybe legal weed. Maybe california in general. It doesn't amount to much.

BONUS: SCUM VILLAIN'S SELF-SAVING SYSTEM

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2024 79:46


We have fandom historian and BL expert Naked Bee on to discuss this extremely charming bit of gay metafiction.

AMMONITE

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2024 71:16


We return to Nicola Griffith to get a more measured take on the lesbian space colony genre, written if not in direct response to Daughters of a Coral Dawn then to books like it. (We know this because of a helpful author's note.)

BONUS: PALE FIRE

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2024 67:47


We get to do a literary classic - significantly, an extremely funny literary classic - in the company of the excellent Kat Weaver. A joy.

DAUGHTERS OF A CORAL DAWN

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2024 60:03


Vintage lesbian separatist science fiction from 1984. It's almost charming until the implications set in - since women can't commit sexual assault and men can't not, pederasty for the one and extermination for the other only makes sense.

DAUGHTERS OF CHAOS

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2024 65:34


A lazy, racist, sexist, ahistorical wankfest of a novel. At least we got a podcast out of it.

DAUGHTER OF MYSTERY

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 64:16


Come with us to fantasy Liechtenstein for some feel-good classic yuri. The society is high, the stakes are low and the names are terrible.

BONUS: THE SCHOLOMANCE TRILOGY

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2024 82:16


After Ann Leckie brought us Foreigner we decided to invite some other authors whose work we've enjoyed to bring us books to talk about. Jenna Moran has elected to bring us the Scholomance, which is highly entertaining, and silly, and incidentally a highly detailed study on the phenomenon of the tsundere.

SPIRITS ABROAD (JUST THE LESBIAN PARTS)

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2024 66:43


You already know we love Zen Cho, so we decided to do an easy breezy runthrough of the gayer stories in her ever-expanding short story collection. 

SHORT FICTION ROUNDUP #5

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2024 52:21


It's another short story roundup!  Featuring: Miss Bulletproof Comes Out of Retirement: https://podcastle.org/2022/03/08/podcastle-725-miss-bulletproof-comes-out-of-retirement/ (or https://giganotosaurus.org/2020/08/01/miss-bulletproof-comes-out-of-retirement/)    Selkie Stories are for Losers: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/selkie-stories-are-for-losers/ Nuca: http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/nuca/

THOSE BEYOND THE WALL

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 18, 2024 67:10


The Space Between Worlds got itself a darker, angrier sequel.  It has a really strong character study at its heart, but the further afield you go from that anchor point the fuzzier it gets.

BONUS: DISCO ELYSIUM

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2024 116:30


This one got away from us - with returning champion Leora in tow we spend a good two hours mostly gushing. You should play this game if you haven't.

SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 57:10


You are a horrible man-eating goo monster. You grew up alone, with nobody there to teach you right from wrong. But somewhere deep in your ooze there slumbers an entire tumblr-approved lexicon of therapy speak, consent theory and minute identity parsing which allows you to become the ethical human chaser.  This is thankfully funny on purpose - at least initially.

THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2024 57:38


It's witches versus gay boys this time around! It's a richly-textured epic journey through fantasy Southeast Asia and there's a whole metatextual second-person out of time narrative framework and it all adds up to less than the sum of its parts.

CARMILLA (CARMEN'S VERSION)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2024 66:26


A 150-year-old sexy vampire story, re-released and given a kinda-sorta makeover by Carmen Maria Machado. None of it feels particularly necessary, but the illustrations are cool!

THE BOOK OF LOVE

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2024 60:07


A debut novel from a short fiction specialist. How'd it go? The review writes itself, unfortunately.

ALL GOOD CHILDREN

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2024 67:31


So, the horrible vulture monsters have emerged from hiding deep within the earth, and they have read Nietszche, but good news: the US Government has figured out the most efficient way to appease them! It involves summer camp.

NIGHT IN THE WOODS

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2024 70:15


Kiana joins us to discuss one of Isaac's favorite games.  We talk about furries, murder and a decidedly pre-Trump vision of rural Pennsylvania.

CAMP DAMASCUS

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2024 61:25


It's Chuck Tingle's debut novel! It's not great!

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BONUS: FOREIGNER

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2024 68:22


We discuss a series which is arguably foundational to the wizards vs lesbians microgenre (despite a distinct lack of lesbianism) with special guest Ann Leckie. 

PLANETFALL

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2024 59:23


Bad news: you've gone to heaven, but it's a terrible English country village in space and your neighbors are not respecting your neurodivergence. Better climb the mountain that is God!

BONUS: Q & A 3

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2024 78:29


We answer questions about stuff we've read, and also stuff we haven't.  Is the author still dead? 

EX-WIVES OF DRACULA

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2024 56:41


Could small-town football hero Coach Bakula not be what he seems??  A campy clusterfuck, three teen movies at once, and very enjoyable. 

THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2024 78:55


A support group for failed messiahs, a device to torture grad students by making them look at a door, the world's funniest surface to air missile - all this and more in a first novel that has no business being this good.

THESE BURNING STARS

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2024 53:52


There's a good book in here! A real noir psychodrama in space. Unfortunately there's also a lot of stuff about space jews.

SANTA OLIVIA & SAINTS ASTRAY

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2024 61:22


Two books starring a sexy supersoldier and her hot girlfriend.  The first one is a melodrama with Politics, and the second is a teen movie that might actually achieve Minus Politics.

THE WITCH'S HEART

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 25, 2024 58:12


In which Angrboða and Loki get Extremely Divorced. Featuring the most canonically monstrous children of narcissistic parents yet - but despite all this, nobody gets monstered by the narrative, not even the world's most useless excuse for a husband. 

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BONUS: THIRD ANNUAL WIZZLY AWARDS

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2024 88:34


Our shameless self-celebration returns once again, with full panel of judges in tow. But there's a twist!

BONUS: TRAVEL LIGHT

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2024 68:03


P.H. Lee joins us to discuss another masterpiece.  Read it if you haven't, it's short.

THE VALKYRIE

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2024 51:41


We continue our three-part series on books inspired by Norse mythology with The Valkyrie. This one wonders what would happen in Fafnir teamed up with Attila the Hun but is mostly about what a schmuck Siegfried was.

BONUS: RELATIONSHIP ADVICE, HUGOS

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2024 56:56


I think we slipped some good advice in here amidst the silliness?

VALHALLA

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2024 48:16


A violent girl in a milquetoast world gets to go to Autism Heaven, where she can be torn apart as much as she wants. We love this book, despite everything.

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