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Sharifah and Jenn discuss some nice news for once (Disney’s first enby character, nominees for the World Fantasy Awards, and more) and get into their most anticipated reads coming out in the second half of 2022. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Quidditch rebrands as Quadball [NPR] Wheel of Time renewed for a third season [Tor.com] Disney’s first nonbinary character played by Terry Hu [Them] Nominees for the World Fantasy Awards Books Discussed August Kitko and the Mechas from Space by Alex White (July 12) Africa Risen, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight et al (Nov 8) The Monsters We Defy by Leslye Penelope (August 9) The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez Aug 30 Babel by RF Kuang (Au

This week, Jenn discusses disability in backlist sci-fi and fantasy, in honor of Disability Pride Month! Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! We’re hiring! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. BOOKS & LINKS DISCUSSED Issue 30: Disabled People Destroy Fantasy from Uncanny Magazine Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant Nicola Griffith’s list of fiction that passes the Fries Test Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharifah and Jenn mourn the death of Kazuki Takahashi, discuss some adaptation news and the best Marvel heroes, and recommend some summer reads with “blockbuster” feels. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Hocus Pocus 2 Trailer [Variety] (and a yikes to Bette Midler [The Mary Sue]) Peacock Cancels Jade City Adaptation [popculture] Ranking of 100 Marvel Characters [AV Club] Yu-Gi-Oh creator Kazuki Takahashi found dead at sea [Book Riot] Books Discussed The Kate Kane, Paranormal Investigator series (Iron & Velvet #1) by Alexis Hall  The Centenal Cycle (Infomocracy #1) by Malka Older Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Sharifah discusses queer books for young readers. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed: Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee  PET by Akwaeke Emezi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharifah and Jenn discuss Malorie Blackman’s win of the PEN Pinter Prize, Miles Morales, exciting news for vampires, some favorite recently published books, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Discussed Malorie Blackman wins PEN Pinter Prize [The Guardian] The history of queer vampires and a look at First Kill [Them] Racism in Miles Morales/Thor “What If?” comic [Indy100] Dune 2 Casting Update [Gizmodo] Books Discussed Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (cw: self-harm, domestic violence, mention of sexual assault) War for the Oaks by Emma Bull The City Inside by Samit Basu (cw so far: rape, violent racism) Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood (cw: child abuse) This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub (cw: chronic illness, loss of a par

This week, Jenn discusses two favorite speculative short story collections. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Tender by Sofia Samatar Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker We are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharifah and Jenn discuss updates on the Sandman adaptation, B&N’s Best Books of 2022 list, some recent favorite under-the-radar reads, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Update on The Sandman Adaptation [The Mary Sue] Catching up on Disney+/Marvel Kamala Khan news [PopSugar] SFF leads B&N Best Books List [B&N Reads] Unburnable copy of The Handmaid’s Tale sold at auction [The Guardian] Books Discussed Destroyer of Light by Jennifer Marie Brissett (cw: graphic harm to children, rape, sexual assault) Elegy for the Undead by Matthew Vesely Reconstruction: Stories by Alaya Dawn Johnson (cw: unwanted pregnancy and abortion access issues, harm to women and children, slavery, racism, body horror, etc) Everyone on the Moon is Essent

This week, Sharifah discusses SF/F audio for road trips. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Forest 404 (BBC Radio 4) An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharifah and guest Erica Ezeifedi discuss the Nebula Awards, Dracula Daily, some favorite mystery SFF, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News The Nebula Awards (and Mercedes Lackey’s removal) Thor: Love and Thunder trailer [Deadline] How Dracula Daily Got So Big [Slate] Books Discussed Far From the Light of Heaven by Tade Thompson Murder in G Major/Gethsemane Brown Series by Alexia Gordon Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jenn discusses two series she’s looking forward to picking back up this summer. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Kangaroo series by Curtis C. Chen (Waypoint Kangaroo #1) Beneath the Rising series by Premee Mohamed (Beneath the Rising #1) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenn and guest Kim Ukura discuss SF/F comfort reading, talk about Locus Award Finalists and Percy Jackson casting, pay their respects to Patricia McKillip, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Locus Awards Finalists Percy Jackson on Disney+ Casting Update (and a statement from Riordan) [Hollywood Reporter] RIP Patricia McKillip [Locus] RIP George Pérez [NPR] Books Discussed The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir ®evolution series by Stephanie Saulter Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki Nghi Vo’s Singing Hills Cycle The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells The Grisha Trilogy (and subsequent books) by Leigh Bardugo The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

This week, Sharifah discusses some YA sci-fi/fantasy. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (cw: suicide) The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (cw: rape, genocide, child death)

Sharifah and Jenn discuss cyberpunk, adaptation news about Wicked and Dune, dig into all things Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Reimagining the future of cyberpunk [Wired] Books like Cyberpunk 2077 [Book Riot] Wicked adaptation news [Variety] South Korea is making a floating city! [Newsweek] Discussion Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven on HBO Max [IMDB] Ableism in Station Eleven [Salon]

This week, Jenn discusses sci-fi and fantasy with work-place romance subplots. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner (cw: addiction & drug use, death by “heroic” suicide) Chilling Effect series by Valerie Valdes

Sharifah and Jenn discuss the Hugo Awards finalists, the Interview with a Vampire teaser, additional favorites from early 2022, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News Hugo Finalists For 2022! [Book Riot] The Nimona Movie Is Saved [EW] 2021 Aurealis Awards Shortlist [Aurealis Awards] Interview with a Vampire Teaser [Bleeding Cool] (Teaser on YouTube) Books Discussed When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo  Light Years From Home by Mike Chen (cw: dementia, loss of a parent) Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu (cw: partner abuse; suicide) Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (cw: mention of suicide) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Sharifah discusses rompy SFF backlist that promise a good time. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sharifah and Jenn discuss Lambda Literary Award finalists, Addams Family and Hocus Pocus adaptation news, favorites that came out in early 2022, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. News More of J.R.R. Tolkien’s art posted [Smithsonian Mag] That piece about Fanworks and the Tolkien Estate [Silmarillion Writers Guild] Lambda Literary Award Finalists for LGBTQ Speculative Fiction [File 770] Wednesday Addams is getting her own series [Variety] Hocus Pocus sequel gets three Drag Race superstars [Them] Books Discussed The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd The Way Spring Arrives And Other Stories, edited by Regina Kanyu Wang, Yu Chen The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta (cw: emotional abuse) How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (cw: c

This week, Jenn discusses older favorites from authors with upcoming new releases. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed The Book of M by Peng Shepherd The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd Payback’s A Witch by Lana Harper From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper (coming May 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jenn and guest Vanessa Diaz discuss the Nebula finalists, that Ms. Marvel trailer, some favorite speculative poems, and more. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.f News That Ms. Marvel Trailer [Book Riot] Disney and the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill [The Guardian] Nebula Award Finalists Martha Wells declines nomination [Publishers Marketplace] Interview with Evan Ross Katz about his Buffy Book [AV Club] Reebok is Making Power Rangers Shoes [Gizmodo] Poetry Discussed Clock Star Rose Spine by Fran Wilde  “All the Army Ghost Stories I Have Heard” by Natalie Wang, Strange Horizons “On Where to Find Strange Horizons, And How to Get There” by Julia Rios, Strange Horizons “Dancing Princesses” by Roshani Chokshi, Uncanny Magazine “Assimilation” by Valerie Va

This week, Sharifah discusses two backlist must-reads. Follow the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed Severance by Ling Ma Small Gods by Terry Pratchett