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 259: The Best of the Year with Paul Kincaid and Adam Roberts
Episode 258: Jim Minz and Baen Books
Episode 257: The end of the year approaches
Episode 256: Suzy McKee Charnas and Pamela Sargent
Episode 255: Eleanor Arnason, Linda Nagata and Women in Science Fiction
Episode 254: Meeting Infinity and Losing the Alien
Episode 253: SF Lectures, The Martian and more
Episode 252: Cecelia Holland and Dragon Heart
Episode 251: Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Women in Science Fiction
Stories by Waldrop, Klages and Shepard
Episode 250: Forthcoming books with Liza Trombi
Jonathan on Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown
Episode 249: Zen Cho and Sorcerer to the Crown
Jonathan on Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora
Limekiller by Avram Davidson
Episode 248: Spokane, Hugo Awards and the Future
Episode 247: Talking about inclusion and fandom
Episode 246: Aliette de Bodard and The House of Shattered Wings
Episode 245: Ian McDonald and Luna
Episode 244: Renay, Nina Allan & the Weight of Fannish History
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