Book Tour 19: Valerie Valdes - Fault Tolerance

This time around, I’m very pleased to welcome back one of my guests from this show’s very first season, Valerie Valdes (@valerievaldes), to talk about the conclusion of her Chilling Effect trilogy, Fault Tolerance, which just released this Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022! Val reads to us from the opening chapter, which leads us into a lively discussion of video game tropes, fanfic, screenwriting, and who Val mains in Super Smash Bros.

 

Things we mention in this episode:

 

Val’s first-season episode

Chilling Effect, by Valerie Valdes

Garrus

Mass Effect

Fix-it fic

Thane

Chekhov’s gun

Mario Kart

Mad Max: Fury Road

Portal

Super Smash Bros

Pokémon

Transformers

Assassin’s Orbit, by John Appel

The Memory War series, by Karen Osborne

Megan E. O’Keefe

K.B. Wagers

The NeoG series, by K.B. Wagers

Annihilation Aria, by Mike Underwood

Imperial Radch trilogy, by Ann Leckie

The Machineries of Empire, by Yoon Ha Lee

D.J. Older

Mike Chen

Rebecca Roanhorse

Doctor Aphra, by Alyssa Wong

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Rarepair

Austin Walker

Five plus one fic

Harold (improv)

Conrad Verner

Tekken 2

Marvel vs. Capcom 2

Jigglypuff

Link

Zelda/Sheik

Samus

Kirby

Shang Tsung

Tron Bonne

Servbot

Roll

Jill

Marth

Mr. Game & Watch

Horizon Zero Dawn

Hades

Val’s twitch

Guardians of the Galaxy (2021)

Girl by Moonlight

Blades in the Dark

Magical girl genre

Persona series

Serial Experiments Lain

Brandon O’Brien

Mike Underwood

Iori Kusano

Jeoi Gawain Lin

ArvanEleron on twitch

Arvan Eleron’s Youtube channel

Stone the Crows, by Grant Howitt

Friends at the Table Partizan

Beam Saber, by Austin Ramsay

Scum and Villainy

Ms Marvel

Our Flag Means Death

Moon Knight

Knights and Bikes

 

Join us again next time, when Rem Wigmore will be returning to the show!