Sinopsis
Read along with the Sword and Laser book club! From classic science fiction to the latest gritty fantasy, we cover it. Subscribe for book discussions, author interviews, hot releases, and news from the genre fiction world!
Episodios
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#497 - Some Desperate Sniffles
03/10/2024 Duración: 56minWe learn a lot about nunchucks and old best SciFi lists, but we spend the majority of our time mulling over Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh. We also kick off a cozy October horrorish read.
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#496 - Leminal Space
19/09/2024 Duración: 34minSad news followed by recommendations from Parade Magazine! And The Booker Short List. Plus, do you hate it when a series isn't continuing the story directly? And we check in on our September read of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh.
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#495 - All The News That's Fit to Squee
05/09/2024 Duración: 36minWe have Dragon Awards and Hugo Awards, we kick off Some Desperate Glory, and wrap up our final thoughts on The Spear That Cuts Through Water. Also, we determine we might need to squee more.
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#494 - Wheel of Thyme
08/08/2024 Duración: 39minThis is not a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles podcast but it sure does end like one. But before it comes to that we boggle at all the awesome award winners, and talk about our good first impressions of The Spear That Cuts Through Water. Oh, and we have an idea for a cafe filled with Brandon Sanderson puns. Oh the puns!
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#493 - Bunny Lamps and Bad Decisions
26/07/2024 Duración: 53minOh, Hugos. Also, the best Sci-Fi books of all time, and will AI kill the planet? We kick off our August book The Spear that Cuts Through Water, and wrap up our last thoughts on Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung.
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#492 - Smokey and the Narrator
11/07/2024 Duración: 38minWe debate whether we want dead celebrities to read our audiobooks. How long is too long for a series? And our non-spoilery takes on Cursed Bunny.
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#491 - Next Month, Trauma!
27/06/2024 Duración: 56minIt's awards season and we cover them all, including a Martha Wells sweep! We wrap up our thoughts on Sword of Kaigen and get excited (read: trigger warnings) for Cursed Bunny, our July pick.
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#490 - Cosy Adjacent
31/05/2024 Duración: 48minAre we living in a Maas society? Veronica has recommendations in joining on the Sarah J. Maas train. Independent bookstores are on the rise. We kick off The Sword of Kaigen and give our spoilery thoughts on Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett.
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#489 - Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Veronicas
17/05/2024 Duración: 33minWe have Locus Award and Arthur C. Clarke award nominees. We share our non-spoilery thoughts on Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett. And Tom discovers Birria Ramen!
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#488 - Barrayar Your Sword
02/05/2024 Duración: 47minSome great books in the Seiun Awards in Japan, why Sword and Laser is good for your heart, we kick off the May pick, and finally wrap up our thoughts on the surprising complexity and depth of the awesome Cordelia's Honor.
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#487 - Have We Reached Critical Maas?
18/04/2024 Duración: 35minOMG all of the top bestsellers are romantasy! What order should you read series in? Does it matter? Also why is Veronica telling Tom to suck it? Or did we misunderstand. Tune in and find out!
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#486 - Pre-re-read
08/04/2024 Duración: 34minWill Veronica and Tom make it to Glasgow? Not after that embarrassing German pronunciation. And after talking some baseball, they dig into non-spoilery discussion of Cordelia's Honor.
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#485 - Triangles Are Stronger
27/03/2024 Duración: 48minThe Nebula Award nominees are out! Should we re-read Neuromancer? Veronica explains Type I, II, and III fun. The truth behind Cordelia's Honor. And our final thoughts on Iron Widow.
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#484 - It's Giving "Mad"
07/03/2024 Duración: 48minWe check in on who's winning the tournament. A vikings kids book! Where it's stabbing time! We talk a little bit about Iron Widow, and wrap up Shadow of the Gods.
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#483 - C is for Chestburster
23/02/2024 Duración: 44minA few more thoughts on the Hugos, who would win in a fight between Maas and Yarros, and we preview our March Madness brackets!
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#482 - Let's Talk About Seax, Baby
09/02/2024 Duración: 54minWe've opened nominations for Mad Marchness!, our March tournament of book picks. Plus, the failure of the Hugos and the rise of Romantasy. And we begin our first impressions of Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne.
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#481 - Big Trouble in Little Worldcon
26/01/2024 Duración: 54minSurprise, there's a problem with hosting the Hugos in China. Plus: Keanu Reeves is co-writing with China Mieville, we kick off our February read, The Shadow of the Gods. And our spoilery thoughts on The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes.
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#480 - What You Can Do With Mickey Mouse
04/01/2024 Duración: 49minAlternatives to Goodreads, and one of them is Amazon. Which owns Goodreads. What you can and can't do with Mickey Mouse. The "Who should play Murderbot" discussion continues. Typical human and augmented human stuff! Plus why Veronica should read this month's book pick.
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#479 - Where Have All The Beef Suits Gone?
30/12/2023 Duración: 48minAre there too many Nat 20s in Kings of the Wyld, our stance on Skarsgard as Murderbot, and we introduce the January pick (which has a lot of triggers).
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#478 - Without A Lick of Condensation
14/12/2023 Duración: 35minAll the end of year book picks are out with lots of great titles to add to your own list! Did Vonnegut think he was a genre writer? And our non-spoilery thoughts about Kings of the Wyld.