S&L Podcast - #430 - What's Your Fantasy Flavor Profile

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What flavor of fantasy do you like? We discuss that and more in kicking off Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo. Also, nominations are open for our March tournament!

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WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?

Tom: Port

Veronica: Bev Gris


QUICK BURNS

March Madness nominations are open!

You can nominate books in our Goodreads thread until 8 PM eastern on Monday February 21st.

The complete guide is in the thread by our amazing moderator Rob but here's the top line

One nomination per person, Has to be sci-fi or fantasy that we haven't read and Tom and Veronica will choose 8 sci-fi and 8 fantasy. We will use the nominations as suggestions but have the final say on what goes in the tourney.

Then starting February 23rd there will be a series of polls pitting one book against another for you to vote on. The winner of each poll will advance to the next week where it will face a new book. The fourth and final week will start March 16th with the surviving fantasy book against the surviving sci-fi book. The winner of that last poll becomes the April book pick!"

Anne: The Recommended Reading List of Locus Mag for 2021 is up

Jan: According to Deadline newly formed Six Studios has acquired the rights to the first six books in Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts’ Riftwar Cycle which includes previous Sword & Laser pick "Magician".

Mark: We read The Rook by Daniel O'Malley back in 2016. O'Malley followed that up with Stiletto and coming October 2022, a third Chequay Files novel, Blitz.

Iain: An explanation as to why the Locked Tomb trilogy is now going to be four books (although reading the reason implies there may be a fifth).

Jan: If you want to lem something, you can check out "My Year of Reading Lemmishly", a way, WAY too long article about the works of Stanislav Lem over at the London Book Review. Is it any good? Probably, but I can't say, I didn't finish it...

Brian - Artist uses AI to perfectly fake 70s science fiction pulp covers – artwork and titles

Mark: The Walter Day Collection of Science Fiction Historical Trading Cards"

BARE YOUR SWORD

Chris on Facebook:
Hi guys! Just wanted to make a comment on your upcoming book Pandora star by Peter F Hamilton, this book is one of my most favourite books. Just wondered have you guys considered listening to it on audio generation is fantastic it’s narrated by John Lee who does an absolute fantastic job. Considering how many different characters they are in this he is very good at voices and makes each character very distinct also I was just wondering whether you are going to read the follow-up book Judas unchained don’t want to spoil anything but this book very much finishes in a cliffhanger. If you’re anything like me you immediately want to start the next book looking forward to your views on it when it in March."

"Hi,
Thanks again for reminding me about the TOR.com 2021 e-book collection, with everything going on, I almost forgot about it.
Also for introducing me to the Reading Glasses Podcast, I've really been enjoying their book lite review, very helpful.

Thanks

David"

BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION

CHECK IN

The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo. (thanks Seth!!!)

Book briefing

The Chosen and the Beautiful

The Cleric (some early chapter spoilers)

How far does SFF stretch

ADDENDUMS

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