S&L Podcast - #373 - Generation Sword & laser

We’ve got picks from librarians and the public domain! Plus we’re excited for Gideon the Ninth and we have our final thoughts on the January pick, In the Company of Others.

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QUICK BURNS

Trike:
Some SFF books entering the public domain this year:

The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany
The Land That Time Forgot and Tarzan and the Ant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Dream by H.G. Wells
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Doctor Dolittle's Circus by Hugh Lofting
The Dream Coach by Anne Parrish

Tamahome: Netflix making a Witcher anime film

From NotDara (aka Jan): At Sundance premiered (another) movie re-imagining Peter Pan - this time with Alice in Wonderland thrown in for good measure: Come Away

Directed by Brenda Chapman (The Prince of Egypt, Brave) Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo play the parents of siblings Alice, Peter and David who imagine grand adventures playing in the woods outside their country home in Victorian-esque England until...

A trailer can be found here

Reviews seem to be mixed so far but the people involved (including Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Michael Cain) make me interested despite the idea not being exactly new anymore.

Seth: The librarians made their 2019 genre book picks. Here's the full "Reading List:"

That list includes runners-up and read-alikes for the winners from all genres.

In sci-fi they picked: A Memory called Empire by Akady Martine
In fantasy they picked: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

BARE YOUR SWORD

Tamahome: .@swordandlaser "read all the hugo nom's" solution @readingenvy

Benedict says: Why oh why can’t we just have a weekly S&L? I can’t wait so long between each episode. Maybe it’s their voices... Hey Tom, set up a group chat once a week. Me, you and Belmont. We can just kick it? @swordandlaser :joy: #BooksYo

Hello to @alterjess, @LinzDreams, and @BookishRabbit0 for letting Cat Valente know you all found out about her books through Sword and Laser! So happy you're enjoying her work!


BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

February Pick
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Book briefing

FINAL THOUGHTS
In the Company of Others by Julie E. Czerneda