S&L Podcast - #414 - The Age of Aquarium Shoes

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Should Tom enter a book contest? Good Omens season 2 is a good idea. And our final thoughts on Piranesi, problematic and otherwise.

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WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

Tom: Milkis

Veronica: Bink Syrah

QUICK BURNS

Mark: 2021 Locus Awards Winners announced

Trike: NPR’S Science Friday has a list of new Science Fiction books to read.

Christos: Netflix released another Witcher Season 2 trailer. I am really excited about this, I really liked s1

Jan: Actor/Singer/Songwriter/Multitalent Janelle Monáe has sold the science fiction short fiction collection

Stephen: S&L BOM author Hugh Howey (Wool) is doing it for Science Fiction, SPSFC ( Self Published Science Fiction Contest) is now a thing .

Jan: The winners if the 2021 Kurd Lasswitz Prize for the best German science fiction works and translations have been announced.

Louie: Something Big Is Coming… Revealing John Scalzi’s The Kaiju Preservation Society

Tamahome: The new trailer for Foundation for Apple is out, and they've announced it's coming out September 24th

Mark: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch Season 2 ordered by Amazon

Mark: When you view the back of the Jade Legacy advance reader copy by Fonda Lee, with the Google Lens app on your phone, a video pops up.

BARE YOUR SWORD

Mark: The Sword & Laser wiki has a new page that could use some eyeballs.

Drake Tungsten @turtleismytotem. First two minutes of Episode 308 - @acedtect: ""Someone did bring their infant to the wedding I was at.""; @Veronica: ""Don't infants just scream incessantly and poop?"

Tamahome @tamahome02000 .@swordandlaser Good luck pronouncing ""Consider Phlebas"", Veronica"

Mark: In Lupin the name of the English Detective varies by publisher and edition. He is known as Herlock Sholmès in US translations, and Holmlock Shears in UK translations. However, there are a few editions of the book where he is known by his true name.

Tamahome: Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke) actually directed an animated Lupin movie years ago, The Castle of Cagliostro. I believe it's on HBO Max.

BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

Next book!

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

WRAP UP

Piranesi by Susannah Clarke

Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Imaginary Prisons

The Prophet ruined the book for me

Point of View

ADDENDUMS

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