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 183: On nominating for the Hugos and Lucius Shepard
Episode 182: Steven Erikson and Ian McDonald
Episode 181: Eileen Gunn, questionable practices and the purposes of science fiction
Episode 180: Kelley Eskridge, Nicola Griffith, Hild, historicity and genre...
Episode 179: James Bradley, Garth Nix, Sean Williams and Australian SF
Episode 178: On importance and important science fiction
Episode 177: Kij Johnson, science fiction and the Booker Prize
Episode 176: Liza Groen Trombi and the Locus Recommended Reading List.
Episode 175: We return and talk about new books in 2014
Episode 174: Rachel Swirsky Redux
Episode 173: Ellen Datlow Redux
Episode 172: Robert Shearman and Howard Waldrop Redux
Episode 171: Graham Joyce redux
Episode 170: Live with Neil Gaiman
Episode 169: Live with Paul McAuley
Episode 168: Terminology, hard SF and other inexactiudes
Episode 167: On Hild, History, Genre and WFC
Episode 166: From the far side of jet lag (REUPLOAD)
Episode 166: From the far side of jet lag
Episode 165: Questions from the audience
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