Podcasts about ninefox gambit

Suit up and get ready to dive into the immersive, melodramatic, character-driven world of space opera! Books mentioned on this episode: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers, Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell, Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott, Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, and An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/keepitfictional/message

Tonight on the GeekNights Book Club, we review and discuss Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit. Far future calendar-fueled space battles abound, and we had a good time with it. It's book one of the Machineries of Empire series, and Rym is already well into the rest of it. We also announce that the next book club book will be Nnedi Okorafor's Binti.

Prophecy Radio episode #38 sees Karen and Kristen talking about about hellhounds, both in Greek mythology and the Rick Riordan universe. In addition, the hosts once again tackle all the latest news, including the recent casting of Luke, Clarisse, and Nancy Bobofit for Percy Jackson and the Olympians, as well their Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth review with chapters 9 and 10. New episodes of Prophecy Radio air weekly, and all ages are welcome to tune in. News and Updates (00:01:33) Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit is getting the ttrpg treatment. Read Riordan also introduces us to the Haetae, as well as Namjoon. If you have any ARMY friends, you've probably heard what a splash that last article made. Tehlor Kay Mejia, author of the Paola Santiago series, announced a new book in the works! We also discuss Rick Riordan's June 21 blog post. Olivea Morton has been cast as Nancy Bobofit, and while we can also see her as a Rachel Elizabeth Dare, we think she's gonna do a fantastic job. Next up is Dior Goodjohn as Clarisse! We really wanted some body diversity for this character, BUT Dior is going to be fantastic and the whole fandom is already in love with her. We're already thinking about spin-off shows. Lastly, we have Charlie Bushnell as Luke Castellan, and Kristen thinks he gives good brow! Rick is happy. We're happy. Everyone is happy. Monster Guide: Hellhounds (00:28:06) Karen learned a lot about hellhounds for this episode, and she's excited to share it with everyone. Hellhounds share a lot of similarities, but there are many different versions of them across various types of mythology. If you spot these characteristics in the wild, you might be looking at a hellhound. Some of them are really different, and that's super cool! Not all hellhounds are bad, and in fact, some of them are downright helpful. There are also many different types of hellhounds found in various pieces of media and throughout pop culture. In Greek mythology, there aren't a lot of stories about general hellhounds. But there is one very famous hound of Hades—Cerberus! He looks a bit different from other hounds, but fulfills the same purpose. Kristen finally realizes the connection between Cerberus and Fluffy. Hercules is the talk of the town lately because he's also had a run-in with Cerberus. And by run-in, we mean Hades let Hercules takes Cerberus for a walk. But what about in Percy Jackson? We get a pretty clear description of hellhounds from the Ultimate Guide, and there's nothing too surprising in there. Why do you think hellhounds are afraid of heights? When do hellhounds/Mrs. O'Leary show up in the original series? We also talk about which Rick Riordan Presents books have hellhounds! Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth chapter reviews (00:43:22) Let's start with the poop in Battle of the Labyrinth chapter 9. Percy is SUCH a great main character, and we're so proud of him. Is Percy Jackson overpowered? Did Geryon get the better end of the deal here?? WHO IS ‘THEY'? We knew we liked Eurytion for a reason. There's definitely a parallel here between Percy and Eurytion when it comes to immortality. We were totally shocked to find out who was sending Percy the Iris messages. Watch your ears because Karen has an epiphany. Ready for Battle of the Labyrinth chapter 10? How did we feel about the meeting with Bianca? Why did she have dominion over the other spirits? We learn the fatal flaw of Hades' children. Prophecy Count #20! Does Luke already have Ariadne's String? Old Daedalus is a scary Daedalus. Why does Eurytion act like other children of Ares? Why couldn't it be “Follow the butterflies”!? The teacher really came out of Rick here. It's a good thing Annabeth listened to Percy here and didn't give into her fatal flaw. Thanks for listening, and tune in next time for episode 39, where we rewatch Karen's favorite Disney movie—Hercules! This episode's hosts are: Karen Rought and Kristen Kranz. Each episode, our Prophecy Radio hosts and their guests will keep you up to date on the latest information coming out of Camp Half-Blood, including upcoming books and adaptation news, discuss a topic of choice, and do a chapter by chapter reread of the Percy Jackson series. Follow Us: Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // Tumblr Listen and Subscribe: Audioboom // Apple // Spotify Feel free to leave us your questions or comments through any of these mediums! You can also email us at prophecyradiopodcast@gmail.com or visit our homepage for archives and more information about our show. Prophecy Radio is a Subjectify Media podcast production. Visit Subjectify Media for more shows, including Not Another Teen Wolf Podcast, ReWatchable, and Not About The Weather, and for all our latest articles about the stories we're passionate about.

Many people who were getting their work rejected starting as a kid would get discouraged. Doubt would start to creep into their mind and they'd wonder if they'll ever be good enough. Add in moving several times and not being sure where you fit in, having a full time job, and general life complications and it's easy to give up. But Yoon Ha Lee overcome all of those things to become a successful writer and create worlds that bring in readers of all ages. Adam and Naresh talk about these things with Yoon Ha Lee, New York Times bestselling author of the Machineries of Empire space opera novels, including Dragon Pearl and Ninefox Gambit and the new book Tiger Honor. Website: www.YoonHaLee.com www.Patreon.com/WorkFromHomeShow www.WorkFromHomeShow.com

Hello and welcome to Episode Forty of Page Turn: the Largo Public Library Podcast. I'm your host, Hannah! If you enjoy the podcast subscribe, tell a friend, or write us a review! The English Language Transcript can be found below But as always we start with Reader's Advisory! The Reader's Advisory for Episode Forty is Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee. If you like Ninefox Gambit you should also check out: Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson, and The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis. My personal favorite Goodreads list Ninefox Gambit is on is Space Operas About Rebelling Against Imperial Powers That Involve Body Snatching and Are Gay. Happy Reading Everyone Today's Library Tidbit is on technology anxiety! You may have noticed that we do a lot of programs at the library geared toward learning a new device, gadget, database, or software. The reason we do this is to provide a relaxed, small group environment with a knowledgeable staff member who is able to give some closer attention and answer questions as they come up. We think this is important because many many people today have technology anxiety. There are actually two different types of technology anxiety. There is the anxiety that is an effect of both what we are seeing on our screens combined with a need to constantly be checking our screens, and there is the anxiety someone feels when they attempt to use technology they are unfamiliar with. Today's tidbit is on the second type of technology anxiety. We may discuss how technology can add anxiety and stress to our lives at a future date. Technology anxiety is not a new concept. Back in 1987, Larry Rosen, Deborah Sears, and Michelle Weil wrote a paper titled Computerphobia in the journal Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, that looked into the, then just called, computer anxiety of university students. Now that we have more technology than just computers available for personal use the term has evolved, but the general concept has stayed the same. I feel like most people are familiar with what anxiety is and feels like. However, just to make sure that we all understand what the type of anxiety I am talking about in this tidbit. Anxiety is intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear. Technology anxiety is when a person has intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about technology. This can manifest itself in different ways, but the most common ways this anxiety presents is with a raised heart rate, change in body temperature, chest pain, dizziness, difficulty concentrating, difficulty thinking and forming thoughts, difficulty in making short term memories. Some people will have more of the physical symptoms and some people will have more of the cognitive symptoms. Either way as you can guess the effects of technology anxiety do not help people learn how to use technology, which is one of the way people can lessen their technology anxiety. If you have ever been handed a new device or logged into a computer and not recognized what was on the screen and gotten immediately worried and afraid? You've experienced technology anxiety. Everyone has this to some degree, but if the anxiety is so large that you cannot learn new technology on your own you should come in and take one of our classes! There's no reason to feel ashamed if you experience technology anxiety. It's extremely common and you are probably doing better with technology than you think you are. If you experience technology anxiety when you need to sit down to do something with technology that makes you anxious take a few deep centering breaths first. Deep breathing is proven to lower your heart rate, which helps lower anxiety. Some technology topics the library has classes on in August include, iPads, Apple watches, ebooks, Android tablets, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and Library databases.

We chat with award-winning science fiction author Becky Chambers! We define space opera, talk about building big worlds without confusing your audience, and creating “cozy science fiction”.   Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of colonialism, imperialism, military, environmental disaster, climate change, and ableism.     Guest Becky Chambers is a science fiction author based in Northern California. She is best known for her Hugo Award-winning Wayfarers series. Her books have also been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Locus Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others. She has two new works coming out in 2021: The Galaxy, and The Ground Within (the fourth and final Wayfarers novel), and A Psalm for the Wild-Built (the first of her Monk and Robot novellas).   Housekeeping - Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee.  - Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests' books, and more at spiritspodcast.com/books - Call to Action: Check out HORSE: A podcast about ridiculous stories, internet drama, and some of the biggest and baddest personalities out there today—all from the world of basketball.   Sponsors - Brooklinen delivers luxury bed sheets, pillows, comforters, & blankets straight to your door. Go to Brooklinen.com right now and use promo code “spirits” to get $25 off when you spend $100 or more, PLUS free shipping. - Doordash is a fast, convenient food delivery app. Get 25% off and zero delivery fees on your first order of $15 or more when you download the DoorDash app and enter code creepycool.  - She's Birdie is a personal safety alarm. Get 15% off your first purchase at shesbirdie.com/spirits   Find Us Online If you like Spirits, help us grow by spreading the word! Follow us @SpiritsPodcast on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Goodreads. You can support us on Patreon (http://patreon.com/spiritspodcast) to unlock bonus Your Urban Legends episodes, director's commentaries, custom recipe cards, and so much more. We also have lists of our book recommendations and previous guests' books at http://spiritspodcast.com/books. Transcripts are available at http://spiritspodcast.com/episodes. To buy merch, hear us on other podcasts, contact us, find our mailing address, or download our press kit, head on over to http://spiritspodcast.com.   About Us Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, an independent podcast collective and production studio. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.

American Greed Factory-Episode 425: Math becomes Magic Trillions, Grab that Loot, Incredulous food situation, Lunchbox, F1 update, Ninefox Gambit by Yoon ha Lee, Loki, Korean War. 

In this episode we discuss Ninefox Gambit, a book about calendars, empire, and war, and the first in a number of books we'll discuss wherein the wizard lives inside the lesbian's head, rent-free, and literally.

Episode 19: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Recommended: Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey Next time: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir   Facebook: Backlog Books Podcast Contact: backlogbookspod@gmail.com Music: josephmcdade.com

Episode 18: Uprooted by Naomi NovikRecommended:Spinning Silver by Naomi NovikThe Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Next time: Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Facebook: Backlog Books PodcastContact: backlogbookspod@gmail.comMusic from josephmcdade.com

Travis interviews author Yoon Ha Lee about Phoenix Extravagant, his latest novel from Solaris Books. This standalone story follows a nonbinary painter as they team up with a pacifist mecha dragon against an evil empire, and it takes place in a magical version of Korea during the Japanese occupation. Yoon and Travis discuss Yoon's experience with watercolor and animation, the important role of art in culture, and how colonization seeks to undermine and destroy that role. About Yoon Ha Lee: A Korean-American sf/f writer who received a B.A. in math from Cornell University and an M.A. in math education from Stanford University, Yoon finds it a source of continual delight that math can be mined for story ideas. Yoon's novel Ninefox Gambit won the Locus Award for best first novel, and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards; its sequels, Raven Stratagem and Revenant Gun, were also Hugo finalists. His middle grade space opera Dragon Pearl won the Locus Award for best YA novel and was a New York Times bestseller. Yoon's short fiction has appeared in publications such as F&SF, Tor.com, and Clarkesworld Magazine, as well as several year's best anthologies. You can find Yoon on Dreamwidth, on Twitter as @deuceofgears, and on Instagram as @deuceofgears. You can find his art at deuceofgears.com and his music at soundcloud.com/deuceofgears. Find Us Online: Blog Discord Twitter Instagram Support Us: Become a Patron Buy Us a Coffee Music: Intro: "Beyond the Wide World" courtesy of Yoon Ha Lee Outro: "Shadow's End" courtesy of Yoon Ha Lee The blog post accompanying this episode can be found at https://thefantasyinn.com, along with fantasy book reviews, author interviews, and more fantasy content.

Da Jens hørte at månedens bog var i stil med Ancillary Justice og Ninefox Gambit var det let, at vælge den endnu nykårede Hugo Award vinder til SCIFI SNAK. Indlægget Ep. 75: Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire blev først udgivet på SCIFI SNAK.

Amanda and Jenn discuss coming-of-age literary fiction, M/M sci-fi, novellas, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Flatiron Books, publisher of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby, and Ecco. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. Feedback Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen (rec’d by Laura) Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong and The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (rec’d by Elizabeth) The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (rec’d by Maria) Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc Questions 1. I need a book for my book club, preferably fiction. We made the terrible decision of reading both of Sally Rooney’s novels back-to-back and now nothing seems nearly as good as her complex characters and the painfully relatable interactions between them. We are all in our early/mid twenties and enjoy reading books that relate to the painful growing pains of figuring out adulthood and who we are as adults. We love Sally Rooney’s engrossing dialogue, straightforward writing style and her well developed coming-of-age intellectuals. In the past we’ve enjoyed books by Celeste Ng, Anne Patchett and Lydia Davis. Excited to hear your thoughts! -Emily 2. Best underrated Tor novellas?  Thanks!  -Shontelle 3. Looking for fiction/nonfiction about non-cis/non-trans people/characters. I’m interested in people or characters who don’t feel they fit in the gender binary.  -Shaina 4. Hi! First off, I just want to say that I love your podcast. I’ve been listening since the first episode, and it’s been one of my favorite podcasts ever since. I’ve never sent in a recommendation request before, but I figured during quarantine, when I have all the time in the world basically, now would be a good time.  I’m in a strange place in that I consider myself a sci-fi fan because I watch a lot of sci-fi, but I realized recently I haven’t actually read much of it. I’ve read some classic sci-fi, like Dune (which I love), and Foundation (which I didn’t really like), but not much else aside from a lot of Star War novelizations, and Star Trek fanfiction. A few sci-fi books on my radar are Ninefox Gambit, Ancillary Justice, A Memory Called Empire, and The Traitor Baru Cormorant. I think I’m more interested in space opera, or at least sci-fi that isn’t too scientific or mathy, but I’m not really sure. I also would like it if you could recommend to me some gay m/m sci-fi. I’ve found a lot of queer women sci-fi which is awesome, but haven’t been able to find any sci-fi dealing with queer men, which I find a little strange. The only one I have found was Bond of Brass which I picked up because people were saying it was basically finnpoe fanfiction, but I’m not sure why they are saying that since it’s so different in concept as well as the characters. I also found the love interest insufferable, and I’m not sure how much I actually enjoyed the moral question of whether or not the main character should literally fight for the colonists who destroyed his world. I think it could have been an interesting premise, but I didn’t like how it was handled, and the bad love interest on top of it just made it worse for me. I ended up not being able to finish it.  Please no comics or graphic novels please. I’m not sure about YA recs unless you know of a YA that is particularly good, and more on the mature side of things. I don’t usually get on well with YA except for a few exceptions. Thank you again for your amazing podcast!  -Anonymous 5. Hi! I’m looking for a good LGBT read but not a coming out story. I’ve been through the years of figuring out who I am and coming out to people. While that is an important part of my past, it’s not part of my every day. I’m happily married and my wife is pregnant with our first baby. I’m looking for a read where the main character just is gay. I read starless sea and loved it. Any type of fiction is fine except short story or graphic novel.  Thanks! -Jessica 6. I love podcasts and recently listened to Noble Blood about Queen Ranavalona I. And I was fascinated. I love historical regency fiction. Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, Diana Gabaldon… But I could not find anything on this queen from Madagascar. I would love the help to find something if not on her exactly on any lesser known queens from elsewhere; Elizabeth Bathory, Empress Wu Zetian… I’m up for it all. -Ryeannuh 7. My wife and I have an awesome 8yo daughter. We have a number of picture books that reflect her Two Mom family, but she’s getting older and I would love to find some chapter books that for elementary age kids that feature a character with two moms. Do you have any you can recommend? -Carrie Books Discussed Five Little Indians by Michelle Good (tw: rape, child abuse, racism) Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather The Ghurka and the Lord of Tuesday by Saad Z. Hussein Burning Roses by SL Huang (lots of triggers incl. child abuse and violence against animals) (September 2020) I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver (tw: enbyphobia) Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller (cw: flayings and PTSD) We Are the Ants by Shuan David Hutchinson (tw: homophobia, suicide) Chaos Station by Jenn Burke and Kelly Jensen (cw: PTSD) Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (tw: slavery) The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal  The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue The Phantom Unicorn by Zetta Elliott

#80 Rymdskepp och halstabletter för själen Rymdskepp! Vad finns det för rymdskepp och hur har deras litteraturhistoriska utveckling skildrats i SF-litteraturen? Vad är skillnaden mellan farkoster som generationsskepp, rymdraketer och traktorskepp? Och vad är grejen med AI:s på skeppen? Detta är lite av vad Maths, Gabriella och Jenny diskuterar i första halvan av poddavsnittet. I andra halvan av avsnittet pratar Jenny och Gabriella om vad som kan ge lisa (eller för den delen en halstablett) för själen, något som kan behövas i den rådande tiden. Vad som ger själasvalka är självklart väldigt individuellt, men några exempel som tas upp är mysig iyashikei-manga och att sortera om i bokhyllan. Tyvärr kommer podden att ta en mindre paus nu i maj, men vi kommer tillbaka i juni med bland annat rafflande tips om sommarläsning! Tidsmarkörer 00:00 Intro 03:20 Om rymdskepp! 33:45 Lisa för själen del 1: Iyashikei 46:30 Lisa för själen del 2: boksortering Nya böcker om rymdskepp! Maths tipsar om Providence av Max Barry. https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/providence-203058 Gabriella tipsar om Machineries of Empire av Yoon Ha Lee, vars första del är Ninefox Gambit, samt den nya Bonds of Brass av Emily Skrutskie. https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/ninefox-gambit-153426 https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/bonds-of-brass-201438 Fantikvariatet, för antikvariska fantastikböcker: http://fandom.se/bok Annat som nämns i podden: Jules Verne – From the Earth to the Moon https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-199471 Arthur C Clarke – 2001 A Space Odyssey https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/2001-a-space-odyssey-7153 John D Clark – Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/ignition-an-informal-history-of-liquid-rocket-propellants-197446 Harry Martinson – Aniara https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/aniara-48037 Cameron Hurley - The Stars Are Legion https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/the-stars-are-legion-164783 Kim Stanley Robinson – Aurora https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/aurora-151163 Kim Stanley Robinson – 2312 https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/2312-122074 Ann Leckies – Imperial Radch-trilogi, del 1: Ancillary Justice https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/ancillary-justice-119600 Beckie Chambers – The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet-145448 Iain Banks – Culture serien, första boken: Consider Phlebas https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/consider-phlebas-3189 James S A Corey – The Expanse serien, del 1: Leviathan Wakes https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/leviathan-wakes-112099 Ian McDonald – Luna-serien, del 1: Luna: New Moon https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/luna-new-moon-153868 Barakamon https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/barakamon-vol-1-137592 A Man and His Cat https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/a-man-and-his-cat-1-203652 Natsume's Book of Friends https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/natsumes-book-of-friends-vol-1-36066 Skull-Face Bookseller Honda San https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/skull-face-bookseller-honda-san-vol-1-197683

#80 Rymdskepp och halstabletter för själen Rymdskepp! Vad finns det för rymdskepp och hur har deras litteraturhistoriska utveckling skildrats i SF-litteraturen? Vad är skillnaden mellan farkoster som generationsskepp, rymdraketer och traktorskepp? Och vad är grejen med AI:s på skeppen? Detta är lite av vad Maths, Gabriella och Jenny diskuterar i första halvan av poddavsnittet. I andra halvan av avsnittet pratar Jenny och Gabriella om vad som kan ge lisa (eller för den delen en halstablett) för själen, något som kan behövas i den rådande tiden. Vad som ger själasvalka är självklart väldigt individuellt, men några exempel som tas upp är mysig iyashikei-manga och att sortera om i bokhyllan. Tyvärr kommer podden att ta en mindre paus nu i maj, men vi kommer tillbaka i juni med bland annat rafflande tips om sommarläsning! Tidsmarkörer 00:00 Intro 03:20 Om rymdskepp! 33:45 Lisa för själen del 1: Iyashikei 46:30 Lisa för själen del 2: boksortering Nya böcker om rymdskepp! Maths tipsar om Providence av Max Barry. https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/providence-203058 Gabriella tipsar om Machineries of Empire av Yoon Ha Lee, vars första del är Ninefox Gambit, samt den nya Bonds of Brass av Emily Skrutskie. https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/ninefox-gambit-153426 https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/bonds-of-brass-201438 Fantikvariatet, för antikvariska fantastikböcker: http://fandom.se/bok Annat som nämns i podden: Jules Verne – From the Earth to the Moon https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/from-the-earth-to-the-moon-199471 Arthur C Clarke – 2001 A Space Odyssey https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/2001-a-space-odyssey-7153 John D Clark – Ignition: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/ignition-an-informal-history-of-liquid-rocket-propellants-197446 Harry Martinson – Aniara https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/aniara-48037 Cameron Hurley - The Stars Are Legion https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/the-stars-are-legion-164783 Kim Stanley Robinson – Aurora https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/aurora-151163 Kim Stanley Robinson – 2312 https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/2312-122074 Ann Leckies – Imperial Radch-trilogi, del 1: Ancillary Justice https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/ancillary-justice-119600 Beckie Chambers – The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/the-long-way-to-a-small-angry-planet-145448 Iain Banks – Culture serien, första boken: Consider Phlebas https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/consider-phlebas-3189 James S A Corey – The Expanse serien, del 1: Leviathan Wakes https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/leviathan-wakes-112099 Ian McDonald – Luna-serien, del 1: Luna: New Moon https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/luna-new-moon-153868 Barakamon https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/barakamon-vol-1-137592 A Man and His Cat https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/a-man-and-his-cat-1-203652 Natsume's Book of Friends https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/natsumes-book-of-friends-vol-1-36066 Skull-Face Bookseller Honda San https://www.sfbok.se/produkt/skull-face-bookseller-honda-san-vol-1-197683

I finished reading Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee. I THINK I liked it...

Tuesday is named after an old, old god. He was once the Sky Father. Now he is a multitude. Also, so far, Ninefox Gambit is a good book. We shall see if it continues to be.

Amanda and Jenn discuss heroines in high fantasy, nonbinary reads, Swedish fiction, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Novel Gazing, Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast, Scout Press, an imprint of Gallery Books, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. FEEDBACK Survived by Her Longtime Companion by Chris Paynter (rec’d by Wynnde) Montmorency series by Eleanor Updale, Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone and The Woman in White, In the Woods by Tana French (rec’d by Miranda) The Living by Annie Dillard (rec’d by Katie) QUESTIONS 1. I cannot even imagine you all can do this one. So… no hard feelings if you all just toss this request. I have a 14 year old daughter (whom I like very much or else I would not be doing this) who would like to start reading more books, but she hasn’t found anything she likes since reading through The Warriors series. She has tried all of the “Animal Saga” books as well — pretty much ALL of the authors who make up “Erin Hunter” (Victoria Holmes, Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Gillian Philip, Inbali Iserles, Tui T. Sutherland, Kasey Widhalm and Rosie Best). She liked the Dragon series ok, but pretty much was not interested in anything but the Cats. (Bears, Dogs, Lions, etc… not interested). She wasn’t into the Redwall series. And she may be a little tired of animals. She wants a big Saga that is NOT about romance and is interested in relationships between/among people… and prefers stories where multiple species/types interact. Right now I have her sitting up in her room trying out the Becky Chambers “Long Way to a…” series. We’ll see how that goes. She has not shown ANY interest at ALL in the Murderbot Diaries. I have just read Ninefox Gambit, but that seems like it would be too hard sci-fi for her, although I will try that. She doesn’t like Mysteries, supposedly. I had hoped that maybe _The Rook_ would pique her curiosity, but no. I mean, seriously. She’s a very easy-to-please kid about most things… but she gets very persnickety around music and books. She did enjoy reading _Of Mice and Men_ at school and discussing it within the classroom environment. She didn’t like Harry Potter at all. She read the first couple of books to humor her mother. She has shown no interest in _Divergent_, _Hunger Games_, _Maze Runner_, and she won’t read graphic novels (so Lumberjanes was a no-go). I have so many fails at this point that I am desperate. If you are able to come up with a book she might actually enjoy, that would be amazing. If this is too much “picky reader” I completely understand!

Well, we've finally found a book we disagree on! While Matt loved A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (https://amzn.to/2GrJJzC), Adrian was more cool on it. In this episode we discuss our disagreements, which largely come down to matters of taste in the aesthetics of stories we enjoy. We also get at some of the tough questions about empire & cultural hegemony posed by the book, and discuss wether we think the book fully explored these issues. We also talk plenty about the historical worldbuilding & other elements that we both enjoyed. It's a different episode than most, in that we disagreed, it's actually the second time we recorded the post-read (we weren't happy with the way the first session came out), and we recored in person together in Adrian's NYC apartment.  There's a long list of other books / media we talk about at the end of the episode and I've tried to capture them all here. As always, links at spectology.com if they don't show up in your podcatcher, and any Amazon links are affiliates. * East Goes West by Kang Younghill * 1587: A Year of No Significance by Ray Huang * Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay * Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner * Foreigner by CJ Cherryh * Treason by the Book by Jonathan Spence * Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott * An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (episodes 20.1 & 20.2) * Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (episodes 6.1 & 6.2) * Byzantophilia in the Letters of Grigor Magistros? by AnnaLinden Weller  --- As always, we'd love to hear from you! Chat with us on twitter at @spectologypod, send us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submit the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

It’s our Best of 2019 episode! Of course, these are not necessarily the best things published in 2019, but instead the best things we read for the podcast (including everything from Bizarro Fiction to True Crime) and the best of everything else we read. Join us! You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system. In this episode Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards Favourite Non-Fiction read in 2019: For the podcast:  Anna:  Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic by Emma Episode 084 - Political Non-Fiction Matthew:  The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements by Gord Hill The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill RJ:  I’ll Be Gone In the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara Episode 080 - True Crime Meghan:  The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Not for the podcast:  Matthew:  You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane AI Weirdness blog Twitter thread including neural net generated smut titles - Featuring “Sex Tongs” and “The Nutwoble Resort” RJ:  Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob Meghan:  How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell Anna: They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib Thick and Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom Favourite Fiction read in 2019: For the podcast RJ: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson  Episode 086 - American Gothic Meghan:  Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes Episode 078 - Supernatural Thrillers Anna:  Gutshot by Amelia Gray Episode 074 - Short Story Collections Matthew: Robots vs. Fairies edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe Not for the podcast Meghan:  All Systems Red by Martha Wells Anna:  Abara: Complete Deluxe Edition by Tsutomu Nihei Matthew:  Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee RJ:  Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson Favourite other stuff from 2019: Meghan:  Au-dela des limites: L'histoire des sports en fauteuil roulant by Judith Lussier and Donald Royer Les petits garcons by Sophie Bédard Matthew: Grease Bats by Archie Bongiovanni Lego Rewind Lego Rewind Ep.20- Halloween Special RJ:  A Tour of My Plants by Jenna Marbles Anna:  SciShow Safiya Nigard Jungle Chvrches Billie Eilish Lizzo Flume Sofi Tukker King Princess The Dø Like a Version (triple j) CHVRCHES cover Arctic Monkeys 'Do I Wanna Know?' for Like A Version CHVRCHES cover Kendrick Lamar 'LOVE.' for Like A Version Runner ups (not necessarily mentioned in the podcast): Meghan: The Black God's Drums by P. Djèlí Clark The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus  The Breakaway by Nicole Cooke Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch Anna:  The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s Time for Radical Change by Raewyn Connell For Her Own Good: Two Centuries of the Experts' Advice to Women by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisely Beneath the Dead Oak Tree by Emily Carroll Matthew:  Fiction Clade by James Bradley A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White Our Lady of the Ice by Cassandra Rose Clarke Non-Fiction Thrill-Power Overload: The First Forty Years by David Bishop and Karl Stock Academia Obscura by Glen Wright 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph Comics Hex Vet, vol. 1: Witches in Training by Sam Davies Stonebreaker by Peter Wartman My Brother's Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame Sugar & Spike: Metahuman Investigations by Keith Giffen and Bilquis Evely Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer by Sylvie Rancourt (the first Canadian autobio comic) SP4RX by Wren McDonald (Cyberpunk!) 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Join us as we reflect on a few of the novels we've read for the podcast so far, and imagine what they might look like as on-screen adaptations. Matt & Adrian play executive producers, coming up with concepts for the adaptations & directors, writers, and actors who might work on them.  Time stamps for each: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Matt): 2m33s The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (Adrian): 13m05s Player of Games (a Culture novel) by Iain M. Banks (Matt): 25m26s Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (Adrian): 31m19s This was a fun & somewhat silly episode, we hope you enjoy! If you have your own fancasting for these or any other books we've read, let us know by tweeting @spectologypod or emailing us at spectologypod@gmail.com, we'd love to hear them.   --- If you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Through journeys and struggles, with the power of friendship, we did it! We recorded another episode, this time talking about Max Gladstone's latest solo novel, Empress of Forever (https://amzn.to/2ykpSOU).  We both really enjoyed this book, and were really happy to get to read a novel by a previous guest. We start the episode off with Matt explaining the ways in which the book is & is not a science fictional adaptation of the Chinese epic novel Journey to the West, and then spend a lot of time discussing redemption and forgiveness and how those two things work in this novel, and how they should work in an ideal world. Also, Orn! This was a fun book to read & fun episode to record (even if Adrian was a little loopy & feverish), so we hope you enjoy it. Some of the works mentioned in the episode (links at spectology.com if they don't show up here): * Monkey: Folk Novel of China trans. by Arthur Whaley (Matt's recommended translation of Journey to the West) * Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny * Contact by Carl Sagan * Our previous episodes on Ten Billion Days & 100 Billion Nights, Semiosis, Brown Girl in the Ring, Ninefox Gambit, Binti, & "The Star"  --- We'd love to hear from you, either by chatting with us on twitter at @spectologypod, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Isaiah, Mason, and Steven discuss Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee [Machineries of Empire, Book 1] Like what we’re doing? Have something you want to say? Need guidance from tactical? You can follow us at : Our website : thestory.network Instagram : thestory.network Twitter : @thestorynet_pod Email : stroynetworkinfo@gmail.com Next week’s book : The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Steve, Isaiah, and Ben discuss Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick. Like what we’re doing? Have something you want to say? Need to escape the kipple? You can follow us at : Our website : thestory.network Instagram : thestory.network Twitter : @thestorynet_pod Email : stroynetworkinfo@gmail.com Next week’s book : Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

The Demographically Similar Jenny's join us again for our post-read discussion of Ann Leckie's The Raven Tower (https://amzn.to/2EGiFvV). We liked it! We're talking about it! We loved having them on so much, go listen to their podcast (https://readingtheend.com/thepodcast/) for more great book content. (#Content for the #Content #Gods!) Other books mentioned on this podcast:  - The Broken Earth series by NK Jemisin (2nd person) - The Inheritance Trilogy by NK Jemisin (gods as narrators) - The Steerswoman series by Rosmary Kirstein - Mission Child by Maureen F. McHugh (non-binary main character)- Ninefox Gambit & follow-ups by Yoon Ha Lee (non-binary characters by a trans masc author) (As always, links are at spectology.com if they don't show up in your podcatcher. And if I missed something mentioned in the episode, tweet at @spectologypod or @readingtheend and we'll find it for you.) --- We'd love to hear from you, either by chatting with us on twitter at @spectologypod, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

We're very pleased that the Hugo Nominations are open and we'll keep reminding you. Also we're pleased to discuss pairing beer with novels and pleased to look over the new Philip K. Dick award nominees. We're pleased to be reading Ninefox Gambit too, even if it makes our brain hurt.

PATREON SUPPORT NOW STANDING AT 437 – LAST WEEK 434 HELP US GET TO 500 PATREON SUPPORTERS. Main Fiction: "The Chameleon's Gloves" by Yoon Ha LeeYoon Ha Lee's debut novel, Ninefox Gambit, won the Locus Award for best first novel and was a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Clarke awards. Its sequel, Raven Stratagem, was also a Hugo finalist. His middle-grade space opera, Dragon Pearl, is forthcoming from Disney-Hyperion in January 2019. He lives in Louisiana with his family and an extremely lazy cat, and has not yet been eaten by gators.Narrated by: Mary MurphyMary Murphy is an actor/voice-over artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She loves the world of audio fiction and is excited to be part of StarShipSofa. She can be heard voicing the role of Dashi on Disney Junior’s Octonauts, and voicing multiple characters for PBS Kid’s Past/Present, Leap Frog, & Muzzy. She can also be heard on Fireside Mystery Theatre’s audio drama podcast, Midnight Shorts Program, and narrating the audiobook Love and Smoke. Other credits include Boardwalk Empire, Man With A Gun, DNA, I Hope You Live Forever, Clutter, and Room 333. Recently she appeared in the play Near Nellie Bly for the Workshop Theater Series, and will be performing a series of Norwin Corwin & O Henry adaptations with QuickSilver. You can often find her roaming the streets of Brooklyn with her 13-pound Dachshund Penny, Gotham’s real Dark Knight. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

At long last, our follow-up episode to Yoon Ha Lee's wonderful Ninefox Gambit has arrived! And Ellie is back to talk about her job & the book with us. Unlike most post-read episodes, we start off with a longer, non-spoiler discussion with Ellie about what she does & how the US Government uses startegy war games in both education & decision-making. It's a fascinating half hour conversation, and worth listening to even if you haven't read the book.  Then of course we get into the meat of it! This episode, we talk about the details & themes of the book, and how they apply to the real world. Want to know more? You'll have to listen. Our list of resources this time around (if the links don't show up, find them on spectology.com or our twitter, @spectologypod): - Raven Strategem and Revenant Gun, the next two books in the series- Yoon Ha Lee's own cheat sheet for the factions in the Hexarchate- Five genre books about games recommended by Yoon Ha Lee- The twitter thread about writing SF from different bodies- Harpoon, a military strategy game available to the public- WaPo profile of Volko Runhke, a CIA game designer- Brian Train's Board Game Geek profile- The Art of Wargaming (link to the Kindle edition, other editions availalbe on amazon with a search)- A discussion of useful SF to read for military commanders - Bombshell, a great national security podcast (they sometimes talk about books!) --- We'd love to hear from you, either by chatting with us on twitter at @spectologypod, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Welcome back friends, it's been a while! Adrian & Matt are back from our break, happy to bring you our hottest takes on what we've been enjoying recently. And next week we'll have our post-read Episode for Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, so you should read that & listen to our last episode if you haven't yet.  This week we cover: - MeasuredPolitics.org, Adrian's Political Action Committee- Mike Boyd's YouTube channel, where he documents his process learning random skills- Bojack Horseman, a show about a depressed actor / horse on Netflix- The Cheese & the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg- America City by Chris Beckett- Jack Ryan, a TV show on Amazon We'd love to hear from you, either by chatting with us on twitter at @spectologypod, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

Noted science fiction writer, Yoon Ha Lee, author of Revenant Gun and other works, delivers an interesting analysis of the science fiction world in which he thrives. Yoon Ha received a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University as well as an M.A. in math education from Stanford University. His work in fiction has appeared in publications such as The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction; the popular online sci-fi magazine, Tor.com; and Clarkesworld Magazine, as well as many anthologies. Yoon Ha was inspired to become a writer by his very passionate 3rd grade teacher who challenged students to be creative. Learning about the craft of writing at such an early age pushed Yoon Ha to try his hand at it, and by the end of middle school he had completed his first novel. And while Yoon Ha recounts that this first effort was not very good, he continued to work at his craft and wrote several more through his high school years. Yoon Ha discusses his work and the technical merits of writing that he sought to improve as he was cutting his teeth in those early years as a burgeoning young writer. From improving his prose to world building, Yoon Ha sought to enhance his work in every way possible. He details how characterization is an important aspect of novel writing, as readers like to relate to the characters personally, through the characters' eyes. And he explains that while world building is important, perhaps the building of characters is the most important task of writing novels. Yoon Ha discusses his first successful novel, Ninefox Gambit, and the reasons he feels the novel worked, and why it was commercially successful. Yoon Ha describes the unusual world that he built in that novel and the physics elements, as well as the cat and mouse dynamic, all of which he felt contributed to the popular interest in the book. The sci-fi author outlines his road to commercial success in the publishing world and he acknowledges that the many years he spent improving his craft helped get him there. As he built a significant following for his creative short stories through the years, his publisher sought to take his work to the obvious next level—marketable books. Yoon Ha speaks about his own personal reading lists and how the reading and study of a broad range of disparate topics helps to expand his own mind and ultimately expand his creativity. From military to math, Yoon Ha found that literally any subject matter could help to broaden his mind as a reader, which of course helped to improve his craft. He talks about some notable authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Lloyd Alexander, David Eddings and others, and recounts how their work impacted him as a young reader, and how his experience growing up as a Korean-American affected his perception and connection to some works. And as the work he was devouring as a young reader was largely from a western perspective, Yoon Ha thought to bring an East Asian influence to the sci-fi genre. As the publishing field expands, Yoon Ha states that diversity is increasing, which allows more types of stories to be told, which in turn allows a larger audience to see themselves represented. The popular author describes some of the relative differences he sees between Korean culture and classically typical American culture, and the symbolic elements of both. Wrapping up, Yoon Ha provides an overview of the elements of his latest work, the novel, Revenant Gun. And he talks about his website (yoonhalee.com) and the many samples that interested readers can browse there for free.

Amanda and Jenn discuss romantic comedies, books about strong women, non-murdery true crime, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Sadie by Courtney Summers, Mirage by Somaiya Daud, and Chica Chocolate.   Feedback For Bess who wants full cast audiobooks: Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo both have great full cast recordings and I think they would work well for someone who liked His Dark Materials. --Insider Sibyl For the same person, anything by Tamora Pierce. At least one of her books was specifically written for audio and at least some were done by the company Full Cast Audio, who frankly has a lot of good middle grade fantasy stuff. --Insider Alanna   Questions   1. Hello! I’m a huge fan of your podcast! I was hoping you could help me find some books to get me through a sort of stressful time. For the next two months I’m going to be working three jobs in two states - with 7 hours of travel each way when I switch states every week! I’m hoping to find some lighthearted yet well-written romantic comedies to help me de-stress during the long bus rides. I am open to almost any genre, as long as it’s smartly written. I love Jane Austen (though not Austen retellings unless they involve zombies), Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Eleanor Oliphant, and This is Where I Leave You. Stardust is my favorite Neil Gaiman novel. I was less keen on Attachments and Eligible because they felt a bit heavy handed/cheesy. It’s been tough to find the right balance of lighthearted without being too sugary, so I would love any suggestions! Thanks! --Andrea   2. Hello, ladies! I'm looking for a book about strong women that has a specific flavor to it. I can't describe it exactly, but books that have that feeling that I've read are The Help and Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe. I love books that focus on women's relationships with each other, bonus points if it's historical fiction. Thanks in advance! --Therese   3. Hi, My mother retired a couple of years ago, and has been using some of her newfound free time to read a lot more. I am one of her main sources of reading recommendations, and am wondering if there is some stuff out there that I am missing that she might love. My recommendations tend to mostly be SFF, historical fiction, and non-fiction, with some YA that usually overlaps with SFF or historical. She also reads mysteries, but I am not looking for recommendations in that genre at this time. One of my main goals in my recommendations has been writer and character diversity: there are enough recommendation lists out there of books by straight white guys. We are also both white women, so I feel that it is important for us to educate ourselves on the stories and perspectives of people different from ourselves. Now, I am going to give a lot of examples of books she has read, because I worry about getting a recommendation back of something she has read. Of the books I have recommended, she has loved The Night Circus, A Tale for the Time Being, The Queen of the Night, Bad Feminist/ Difficult Women, The Signature of All Things, Tears We Cannot Stop, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and Homegoing. She has also really liked books by Nnedi Okorafor, Connie Willis, Donna Tartt, Ruta Sepetys, Elizabeth Wein, Kate Atkinson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Junot Diaz, Stacey Lee, Carlos Ruiz Zafron, and Ursula Le Guin, as well as You Can’t Touch My Hair, The Library at Mount Char, Never Let Me Go, Swing Time, Greenglass House, We Need New Names, Americanah, Lab Girl, Another Brooklyn, Garden of Evening Mists, and Kindred. Books she just liked: Station Eleven, An Unnecessary Woman, Rise of the Rocket Girls, Everything Leads to You, Ninefox Gambit, Bone Witch, and Boy, Snow, Bird. Books already on my suggestion list: Shrill, Radium Girls, I contain Multitudes, Behold The Dreamers, Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, The New Jim Crow, Men Explain things to me, Pachinko, Inferior: How Science got Women Wrong, The Cooking Gene, the Winged Histories, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, The Hate U Give, Infomocracy, Citizen by Claudia Rankine, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America, Uprooted, Speak by Louisa Hall, The Fifth Season, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, George by Alex Gino, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Too Like the Lightning, Electric Arches, Labyrinth Lost, N.K. Jemisin, Zen Cho, and Jesmyn Ward. I would prefer backlist recommendations I may have missed, as I am pretty good at keeping up with new releases and determining if they seem interesting to either one or both of us. Thanks! --Mary   4. Hi! I'm wanting to read more fantasy and sci fi books as they're two of my favorite genres even though I haven't read a ton of books from either. I grew up reading Harry Potter. I've recently read The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss and Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb, and mostly enjoyed them but I was very disappointed in the lack of female characters. I would love to read a fantasy or scifi book where several of the main characters are women, and that isn't graphically violent and doesn't include explicit sex scenes. I've read and enjoyed the first two books in the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer (reading 3 now) and Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series. Thanks!! --Valerie   5. Hi, I'm looking for an audiobook for the Dr. I work for. He and his family with children aging from 18 to 6 years of age travel by car often. I'm looking for an adventure even a true life adventure, that would capture the attention of the children as well as the adults without a lot of swearing as they are a religious family. I know it's last minute. Your help is much appreciated --Tiffany   6. I need a recommendation to fulfill the Read Harder Challenge #2, a book of true crime. So far a lot of what I'm finding is things about serial killers or school shootings and for various reasons, books about murders, shootings, extreme violence etc are too triggering for me to get into a this point in life. But surely there must be true crime books about other topics? If it were a movie, I'd think something like Oceans 11 or Catch Me if You Can. Books about abductions or kidnapping are okay as long as they aren't too grisly or graphic. Thanks in advance for your help! --Jessica   7. Greetings, Jenn and Amanda! This is perhaps oddly specific, but I have recently realized that a premise I always love, whether in movie, TV, or books, is “unlikely group stranded together somewhere due to inclement weather.” I have always loved huge snowstorms and the resulting inability to go anywhere or do anything but hang out at home and read. I love seeing or reading about characters in a similar situation. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a snowstorm that’s keeping the characters stranded, but that’s my favorite. I am open to any genre, but prefer romantic or other interesting interpersonal plot points to scary ones (i.e. group of people stranded by snowstorm deals with deranged killer on the loose). I love your show and I thank you! --Darcy   Books Discussed   For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig (out Sept 25) Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang Heroine Complex by Sarah Kuhn The Color Purple by Alice Walker Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart The Kindness of Enemies by Leila Aboulela Bone & Bread by Saleema Nawaz (TW: eating disorder) The Five Daughters of the Moon by Leena Likitalo Bannerless by Carrie Vaughn The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis (rec’d by Jess) The Big Bang Symphony by Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Late episode this week... but early episode this month! It's the Labor Day holiday weekend, so we wanted to post a longer episode to keep people company during all the BBQs and road trips.  This month, the book we're reading is the Locus-award winning Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee. We also have a wonderful guest. Ellie Bartels is a strategy & war game designer, and has long been book club pals with Adrian & Matt.  In this episode we discuss military science fiction, how science fiction and fantasy interact with each other, education game design, math, gender politics in the miliary & science fiction, and inter-departmental bureaucratic conflict. It is a really fun episode, and we have to leave some of the best parts for the spoiler discussion in a few weeks.  --- Some of the works we mention & discuss include: - The Ancillary Series by Anne Lieckie - Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey - CJ Cherryh - Shards of Honor and Barrayar (collectively refered to as Cordelia's Honor) by Lois McMaster Bujold - Honor Harrington by David Weber et al. - Blindsight by Peter Watts- Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolf- Unavoidably, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - And last but not least, "Instruments of Destruction", the short Star Wars fanfiction about project managing the Death Star  --- We'd love to hear from you, either by chatting with us on twitter at @spectologypod, sending us an email at spectologypod@gmail.com, or submitting the episode to r/printSF on reddit. We'll reply, and shout you out in the next podcast when we talk about your comment. And if you like the episode, subscribe at spectology.com or whever you listen to podcasts, and share it with your friends! Many thanks to Dubby J and Noah Bradley for doing our music and art.

I Hexarkatet styres alting efter den gældende seksdages imperie-kalender. Og hvis du synes at din outlook-kalender vender op og ned på dit liv, så er det ingenting mod, hvad man i Hexarkatet formår med kalendrisk matematik. Kalendrisk matematik er en slags ufattelig eksotisk og magisk kraft, som danner basis for al teknologi i Hexarkatet. Og […] Indlægget Ep. 53: Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit blev først udgivet på SCIFI SNAK.

Molly And Alice talk some queer rep in books and tv shows. Harry Potter (Dumbledoor DOESN'T COUNT), Thor: Ragnarok, Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Luna, Steven Universe (duh), Modern Family, Sense8, Will And Grace, Glee (we know, we know), Brooklyn 99, Broken Earth Trilogy, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Ancillary Justice, Provenance, Ninefox Gambit

Noyan is away, so Eden hosts fellow blog editor, Nick Cusworth! This gives the two opportunity to talk about stuff that usually doesn't come up on the cast which they use to shine a light on Jim Grey from Caligula's Horse releasing a video for the A Capela segment on their latest album, Plini releasing a new track, and a deep dive on the changes undergoing the post rock scene, recommended bands that make post rock or metal and the close knit networks that make these scenes happen! Along the way, they mention bands like Man Mountain, This Patch of Sky, Town Portal, VASA, Rumour Cubes, The Physics House Band, Alpha Male Tea Party, Mountain, Below a Silent Sky, Flora, Soldat Hans and more! Then, it's time for the bad news. They start off with surprising opinions revolving around gun control, first from Run the Jewels' Killer Mike and then from Taylor Swift. They then move on to the click-bait article published on The Washington Post which claims that physical sales exceeded digital ones in 2017. While that's technically true, the two analyze why that happened and get pretty personal on vinyl and CDs! Lastly, there's a trio of terrible politics from the metal community. The first is the ridicule in the wake of The Faceless breaking up again, and what that says about the community's terrible perspectives on addiction. Then, there's another statement from Decapitated who totally by accident (allegedly) misinterpret and represent the facts of their trial again. Finally, there's the awful news of Inquisition's Dagon involvement with child pornography and, surprise, the community's desire to protect him. Cool people time includes The Witcher 3, CW's Black Lightning and Ninefox Gambit!

Ed, Ross, Producer AL and Del present Brave New Words. Ed attempts to review A Man of Shadows by Jeff Noon. His friends 'help'. Along the way we discuss Greggs, Worldcon, and a number of other novels including Becky Chambers book A Closed and Common Orbit , Yoon Ha Lee's Ninefox Gambit, Emma Newman's After Atlas, Tricia Sullivan's Occupy Me, Central Station by Lavie Tidhar and Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad. The interview is Richard K Morgan, who discusses the new TV show based on his book, Altered Carbon. All recordings are issued under official license from Fab Radio International. The Bookworm is a Truly Outrageous Production.

Sharifah and Jenn discuss the She-ra reboot, a new Harry Potter game, Annihilation movie news, and their favorite world-building. This episode is sponsored by The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo and Book Riot's Top 20 Giveaway. News Discussed: She-ra Is Coming BACCCCKKK OMG ANOTHER new Harry Potter game in development Weird stuff is going on with the Annihilation release Plus a comment on the whitewashing from Alex Garland New Buffy middle-grade novels NOTE: Apparently Buffy & Harry Potter started THE SAME YEAR, Jenn apologizes for her error and her mind is blown.   Books Discussed: The Kate Daniels books by Ilona Andrews (Magic Bites) The Machineries of Empire series by Yoon Ha Lee (Ninefox Gambit and Raven Stratagem) The Grishaverse of Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone / Six of Crows / Language of Thorns) The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (Broken Earth trilogy)

This week, Liberty discusses great older books, including Mister Pip, Ninefox Gambit, and The Wedding Date. Today's episode was sponsored by A Duke in Shining Armor by Loretta Chase. Find a list of the titles discussed on this episode in the shownotes.

Calendrical rot! We review and discuss "Ninefox Gambit" by Yoon Ha Lee.

Sharifah and Jenn discuss news including the 2017 Bailey's Prize winner and The Passage casting, and talk favorite villains. This episode is sponsored by Libby and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via iTunes here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here.   News The 2017 Bailey’s Winner is a science fiction novel A critique of the book from a BR writer The Hunger Games inspires a real life hero The Passage TV series casting: Zack Morris is Brad Wolgast  Racebent casting of The Girl With All the Gifts   Books Discussed: Favorite Villains Shuos Jedao from Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Lek from the Graceling series by Kristin Cashore The Beast from The Magicians by Lev Grossman Sydney from The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden Nimona from Nimona by Noelle Stevenson Commandant/Keris Veturia and The Nightbringer from the Ember in the Ashes series by Sabaa Tahir The Darkling from the Grisha trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

In which we Continuum all the Continuum! Our live podcast, recorded on the afternoon of June 11 2016, with us still buzzing, inspired and surrounded by cake. Alex has a travel announcement. Alisa is knitting. Continuum 13! We were there! Seanan McGuire's Guest of Honour Hour Likhain's GOH speech on YouTube & written version. (we hadn't seen this when we recorded so don't mention it in the episode but PLEASE read/watch it. Rivqa Rafael's Continuum tweets Storified. Mother of Invention: our campaign is past $11,000 and still going! CULTURE CONSUMED: Alisa: Hidden Figures; The Happy Place; Disney on Ice: Frozen Tansy: Heathers: The Musical/Heathers, Wonder Woman Alex: Wonder Woman; Hugo reading: Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee; All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders; That Game We Played During the War, Carrie Vaughn; Q&A: we answer your questions & take on your conversation topics. Thanks SO MUCH to our darling audience, who filled our seats, howled when we needed you to, came up with questions, and stayed blissfully quiet the rest of the time. If you hear a moment of odd, no-context-provided hilarity, just assume something funny has happened involving one of the Galactic Suburbia Gentleman's Auxilary, or that someone is gesturing with cake. Please send feedback to us at galacticsuburbia@gmail.com, follow us on Twitter at @galacticsuburbs, check out Galactic Suburbia Podcast on Facebook, support us at Patreon - which now includes access to the ever so exclusive GS Slack - and don't forget to leave a review on iTunes if you love us!

Our triumphant return! We talk about the books coming out during our ~summer nonvacation~, talk about how the WORLD IS FUCKED, and then discuss Empress of a Thousand Skies. 🐝 You can read a transcript of this episode. 🐝 2017 Summer Books; 01:41 Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee […] The post Fangirl Happy Hour, Episode #84 – “Back to the Same Old Tricks” appeared first on Fangirl Happy Hour.

Juliane talks about how her struggle with Ninefox Gambit was worth it, and Luke expounds on how he likes to have his brain modified by an author as clever as Yoon Ha Lee. Massive spoilers in this episode! For a non-spoiler review check out SFBRP episode #320. Get this audiobook for free, or any of […]

 Download This episode is all about books (and a little bit about games)! We talk some sci-fi, some literary fiction, Titanfall 2, Hyper Light Drifter, and round it all out with our main topic of the Sheri S. Tepper novel, Grass.   Games:  Titanfall 2 Hyper Light Drifter Party Hard Monaco Books:  Ninefox Gambit – […]

Luke rants about bad reviews on Goodreads and then says why Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee is his favourite book of 2016. Get this audiobook for free, or any of 100,000 other titles, as part of a free trial by visiting this link: http://www.audibletrial.com/sfbrp. Buy this book at Amazon, or discuss this book at […]

Ana and Renay team up to discuss Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, Ghostbusters (the 1984 version), and Young Avengers Presents. Plus, recs! Discussion References What We’re Reading; 01:02 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi Bad […] The post Fangirl Happy Hour, Episode #49 – “Nostalgia Fail” appeared first on Fangirl Happy Hour.

Ed Fortune, Rebecca Derrick, and Ross O'Brien dive into all things Space Opera, starting with Ninefox Gambit, by Yoon Ha Lee and then ending up drooling over the Folio Society's reissue of Dune. Spoilers for the 1977 Star Wars movie (Though not really). All recordings are issued under official license from Fab Radio International. The Bookworm is a Truly Outrageous Production.