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 223: Alisa Krasnostein, Sean Wright, Tehani Wessely and the Aurealis Awards
Episode 222: Forthcoming Books with Liza Trombi
Episode 221: Joe Abercrombie and Sean Williams at the Perth Writers Festival
Episode 220: William Gibson, Eileen Gunn, and Chris Brown
Episode 219: On Short Story Collections and such
Episode 218: Harlan Ellison, Bill Schafer and the Volcano
Episode 217: James Morrow, SF, Satire, Religion, and Other Matters
Episode 216: Guy Gavriel Kay and the Legend of the Lost Podcast
Episode 215: On Short Stories, the Possibility of Ruts and other matters
Episode 214: Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois Live in DC!
Episode 213: Helen Marshall and Robert Shearman
Episode 212: James Bradley and the Year in Review
Episode 211b: Kij Johnson and Reimagining Genre’s Past
Episode 210: Genevieve Valentine and all the things
Episode 209: The Beginning of the End of 2014
Episode 208: Caitlin R Kiernan, Peter Straub and the literary uses of fantasy
Episode 207: Kameron Hurley and The Mirror Empire
Episode 206: Peter Halasz, Robert J. Sawyer and Canadian SF
Episode 205: Ken Liu and Chinese Science Fiction
Episode 204: Books we're looking forward to, or the shopping list episode
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