S&L Podcast - #393 - Three-Body No Problem
/Dune! Dune looks so good! Yay Dune! Save us! Help us escape! Actually, we’re pretty good on that front as Ten Thousand Doors of January is helping us all escape. And we’re also pretty bulllish on the team putting together a TV adaptation of Three-Body problem for Netflix. EVERYTHING IS GREAT!
QUICK BURNS
Conal: The initial trailer for the new Dune movie was released.
Mark: Dragon Award winners announced.
Jan: Netflix has announced that they will adapt Liu Cixin’s Hugo-award winning novel and Sword and Laser pick The Three-Body Problem as a tv series
Richard: Nos4a2 canceled. Altered Carbon canceled
Jenny: Kate Hope Day revealed the cover and description of her next novel coming March 2021 from Random House.
Sheila Jean: Michael J Sullivan is looking for potential beta readers WHO HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY READ HIS WORK.
BARE YOUR SWORD
Joseph
Forgive me if this has already been mentioned elsewhere, but another reason Enola Holmes falls into your remit: It's based on a series of books (The Case of the Missing Marquess being the first) by SFF author Nancy Springer, although I haven't seen her name mentioned more than once or twice in connection with the series
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Harold Combs @DevHarryC
@swordandlaser @AlixEHarrow
Tom: Berea, Kentucky.
it’s Buh-REE’-uh. :)
But it’s okay. It’s the most laid back little town, full of artists and writers. You’d like it.
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Hi,
Saw that the Folio Society has released the Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobbs in nice box set with slip case, just in time for its 25th anniversary. If memory services Veronica is a big Robin Hobbs fan, here is the link!
Best,
David
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION
Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Escapism at it's finest
Locke is such a good character
Precisely how I feel about a new (physical) book
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