The end of the year may be fast approaching, but this episode isn’t quite our usual year-in-review discussion (which will come up later), or our books-we’re-looking-forward-to episode. Instead, we spend some time musing about books we maybe should be looking forward to, if we only knew about them.
This raises the question of forthcoming novels that contain substantial fantasy or speculative elements, but that are marketed almost entirely as general or “literary” fiction. The examples Gary cites are The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard and Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice. (Of course, some of our favorites like Kelly Link also get this “mainstream” treatment, as with The Book of Love.)
This is turn raises the question of how we find out about new novels from the margins of the field, how we choose what we read when discovering an exciting new writer may mean forgoing a new novel by a favorite, and how to find a balance.
Episode 303: John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly at ICFA
Episode 302: The State of Short Fiction
Episode 301: On Literary fiction and genre, the moon and more
Episode 300: Kij Johnson Exploring Old Worlds
REPOST: Coode Street Roundtable 4: Paul McAuley's Into Everywhere
REPOST: Coode Street Roundtable 3: Patricia A. McKillip's Kingfisher
REPOST: Episode 299: Liza Groen Trombi and the Locus Year in Review
Episode 299: Liza Groen Trombi and the Locus Year in Review
REPOST: Coode Street Roundtable 2: Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky
Episode 298: Lisa Yaszek, Kathleen Ann Goonan and Sisters of Tomorrow
Episode 297: Politics and science fiction
Episode 296: A Return to Normal Programming
Episode 295a: Ellen Klages reads from Passing Strange
Episode 295: Ellen Klages and Passing Strange
Episode 294: Just a Song Before We Go (on hiatus)
Episode 293: James Bradley, Ian Mond and Coode Street's Year in Review
Episode 292: Short fiction, defining fantasy and more
Episode 291: Radio Free America
Episode 290: David Levine and Fran Wilde
Episode 289: Baseball, Bob and more
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