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 203: Alisa Krasnostein, Sean Williams and the State of Australian SF
Episode 202: Nina Allan, Paul Kincaid and the State of British Science Fiction
Episode 201: Moving on...
Episode 200: Robinson, Silverberg, Walton and Loncon!
Episode 199: Loncon, Hugos and the future of SF
Episode 198: John Clute, science fiction and Loncon
Episode 197: Readercon, the World Fantasy Awards and more
Episode 196: Bill Shafer and Subterranean Press
Episode 195: Joe Monti and Saga Press
Episode 194: Daniel Keyes and Questions from the audience
Episode 193: Academic Exercises, genre and pants
Episode 192: Anne Leckie, gender and Ancillary Justice
Episode 191: Jeff VanderMeer and the Southern Reach
Episode 190: James Bradley, science fiction, awards and more
Episode 189: Joe Abercrombie, Half a King and dark fantasy
Episode 188: Mary Rickert and The Memory Garden
Episode 187: On the perception of SF today and some rambling
Episode 186: Hugo Awards 2014 with John DeNardo and Tansy Rayner Roberts repost
Episode 185: Heinlein, Awards and such
Episode 184: Nnedi Okorafor and Lagoon
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