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.
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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
Episode 164: Notes from just beneath the debt ceiling
Episode 163: On overlooked books of 2013...
Episode 162: Live with Rachel Swirsky
Episode 161: On the toxicity of literary canon
Episode 160: Live with Paolo Bacigalupi
Episode 159: Live with Kij Johnson and John Kessel
Episode 158: Live with Malcolm Edwards and David G. Hartwell
Episode 157: Live with Ellen Datlow
Episode 156: Live with Sofia Samatar
Episode 155: Live with Andy Duncan and Ellen Klages
Episode 154: Live with James Bradley
Episode 153: On Sharknado, politics, and international SF
Episode 152: The discussion continues
Episode 151: Live with Robert Shearman and Howard Waldrop
Episode 150: Live with John Crowley and Peter Straub!
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