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 144: On bookstores and lifetime achievement
Episode 143: A journey from new SF to politicised editing
Episode 142: After an unexpectedly long hiatus, a return!
Episode 141: Oh, no! Another awards discussion
Episode 140: Live with Nalo Hopkinson
Episode 139: Live with Kij Johnson
Episode 138: Live with Joe and Gay Haldeman
Episode 137: The rambling continues
Episode 136: On Benchmarks, Budrys and awards
Episode 135: Cecelia Holland on River of Stars
Episode 134: On digital texts
Episode 133: On Locus, recommended reading, Neptune's Brood and more
Episode 132: On context, books, and awards
Episode 131: Live with Nancy Kress!
Episode 130: Contemporary fantasy, lists and other things
Episode 129: In which the year ends....
Episode 128: Live with Gene Wolfe
Episode 127: Live with Maureen McHugh
Episode 126: In which rambling continues...
Episode 125: Of lists and rambling
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