S&L Podcast - #383 - TerpTalk
/Congrats to the Locus Nominees and Nebula winners! We’ve read a bunch of those but there are some great new picks to be discovered too. Everybody wins! Plus long-time Sword and Laser listener TerpKristin joins us to wrap up Magician: Apprentice.
QUICK BURNS
Geoff: 2019 Nebula winners announced! Here’s the official post.
A Song for a New Day wins for best novel, which surprises me based on "buzz", but I haven't read it yet so I'll take it on faith that it is worthy. Looking forward to reading it!
S&L pick This Is How You Lose the Time War wins for Novella.
Mark:
2020 Locus Award finalists announced
Stephen: New Virtual Con, this time put on by Tor.com and Den of Geek
Info and dates here
Christopher Paolini & Brandon Sanderson June 11th
Neil Gaiman & V.E. Schwab June 12th
June 13 and June 14 all sorts of stuff
You need to register to get an invite to the event.
BARE YOUR SWORD
Thanks to Dave Packard the OC S&L we had a lockdown version of the monthly meetup via Zoom, attended by Dave, Stephen Richter, Andrew Cator, Christina and myself.
We spent about 10 minutes discussing Magician: Apprentice then over an hour talking about Star Trek, Star Wars, various books and comics we're reading, TV shows we're watching and I forget what else.
A good time was had by all.
Gary Fisher
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Beth Mitcham @MitchamBeth
MAGICIAN: APPRENTICE, Raymond E. Feist. A great time-travel book. I mean, there's no time-travel in it, but while reading it I am magically a kid again, reading fat fantasy books by the bucketful. Hindsight makes it pleasantly predictable.
Kelly Sedinger @Jaquandor
Listening to a @swordandlaser discussion on the DUNE books and which ones to read and which to skip, I'm reminded of a wonderful turn of phrase by @BluejoWalton, who referred to the later novels as "homeopathically good".
Kenley Neufeld @kenleyneufeld
A gentle tale of humans, elves, dwarves, and even a dragon. Fun and light w/out the dark heaviness that pervades fantasy. More than one boys journey into manhood caused by war. Surprised to not hear from our protagonist in the last 85-pgs. Magician: Apprentice for @swordandlaser
Amy @SuthinBelle
@swordandlaser I posted on Goodreads but wanted to let you know about the new data viz on book picks I made
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION
JUNE PICK
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Full wrap up with Terpkristin joining us! Yay!
Magician: Apprentice by Raymond E. Feist
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