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 621: Coode Street’s Books for Look Forward to in 2023
Episode 620: A Very Coode Street Advent Bonus: M. Rickert
Episode 619: And Happy Holidays to all!
Episode 618: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Elizabeth Hand
Episode 617: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: N K Jemisin
Episode 616: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Tochi Onyebuchi
Episode 615: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Nghi Vo
Episode 614: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: John Clute
Episode 613: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Naseem Jamnia
Episode 612: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: John Kessel
Episode 611: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Neon Yang
Episode 610: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Richard Butner
Episode 609: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Lavie Tidhar
Episode 608: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Sarah Tolmie
Episode 607: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Christopher Rowe
Episode 606: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: C S E Cooney
Episode 605: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Alix E. Harrow
Episode 604: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Charlie Jane Anders
Episode 603: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Stephanie Feldman
Episode 602: The Coode Street Advent Calendar: Kelly Robson
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