The hope of science fiction spurred by a science museum, Dracula by email, why it's called a tetralogy and our non-spoilery thoughts on Machinehood, and our goodbyes to friend of the show, Jenny Colvin.
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Many of you know, but some of you may not that Jenny Colvin, host of Reading Envy, member of Sword and LAser's community and so much more passed away unexpectedly last week. We'll be posting some of your memories of her on our website in the show notes for this episode and stick around after the music ends for this episode to hear us share our memories.
So who needs a drink?
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: Terra
Veronica: The rooster rosé
QUICK BURNS
Mark: 2022 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists announced.
Seth: The British Science Museum is opening a cool-looking exhibit called Science Fiction:
And as part of the exhibit's opening in October, they're sponsoring a sci-fi writing competition
Ruth: The Dracula Daily newsletter
Oaken: C.J. Cherryh is on the mend
terpkristin: Chicon 8, the next Worldcon, is hosting, with some bookstores, local events to talk about books.
Ruth: Tor dot com publishing have released a free sampler of their 2022 debuts, you can download it in various formats
Paul: Polygon released their favourite 2022 SFF books so far
BARE YOUR SWORD
Jamie: My podcast player was acting up, so I managed to listen to this today. And since they (to my surprise) read out a post of mine and asked for references, well, that's a fair response, so:
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UK English
The reason why "quadrology" is considered... well, "nonstandard" is probably more accurate than to say it's simply "wrong"... is that the -logy ending is Greek so, ideally, it goes with the Greek word for "four" - and "quad-" is Latin. There are some words that break this rule ("television" is probably the best known) but there are fewer than you might think.
@anne_korfmacher
for some reason the episode index on the S& L website doesn't load on my end anymore. Any ideas why? The overview is super helpful and I would love to continue using it!
You're right, it's broken! We didn't do anything, so maybe something on Squarespace changed! We'll look into it!
@jfdubeau, regarding figuring out the mystery too early or getting spoilers:
I think there's a sweet spot. You want to figure it out juuuust before the reveal. Like half a chapter or a couple of paragraphs. That way you feel clever for figuring it out, but not like the mystery is too shallow.
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION - CHECK IN
Machinehood by S.B. Divya
Amazon Link
When good science makes bad fiction
I think the book is awesome
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REMEMBERING JENNY "READING ENVY" COLVIN
"It's a sad day in our Furman library world. Our colleague, Jenny Colvin passed away last night at the age of 43. She was the fastest reader I know, read anything, had a podcast Reading Envy and a baking blog JennyBakes. She cared a lot about a lot of things, but mostly in trying to make things better."
Rob: Jenny was one of the first members of S&L that I talked with. She was recruiting reviewers for SFFAudio and I did those for a few years under her coordination. After that dried up, I didn't talk to her as often but she would always chime in from time to time with some good comments on S&L despite getting busy with her own blog and podcast: I'm really sorry to hear of her passing.
