The third Nicefox Gambit book is out — the series is actually called Machineries of Empire, but I like Nicefox Gambit too much to resist using it. So before I get into this book, Revenant Gun, here’s a quick, spoilery recap of the story in Nicefox and Raven Stratagem. A rebellious foot soldier has the ghost of a dead traitor general installed in her head. The hexarchate — the ruling powers — intend for the general, Jedao, and the soldier, Cheris, to win a particularly challenging battle for them — they’ve used Jedao’s ghost in the past this way, to…
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Come my own ones, come my fair ones, come now unto me, would you fancy a new podcast that has just come from WELL NOT REALLY THE SEA but for the sake of the rhyme. It’s Podcast Wednesday, and Whiskey Jenny is back and y’all maybe (maaaaaaaaaaaaybe) missed her almost as much as I did! We resume rereading Lord of the Rings, get slightly heated on the topic of Goldberry, chat about the summer books we’re looking forward to, and review (kinda) Hiromi Kawakami’s The Nakano Thrift Shop. You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or…
Leave a CommentAll right, I am sufficiently settled into my new status as Short Story Advisor that I have decided to give this monthly feature a proper name. I am calling it Shortly Ever After, with thanks to the writers and editors of Lady Business for naming assistance, and I will never stop doing it until you pry it from my cold dead hands because I’m all about short stories now and that is just my life. Next month I’m going to have a DAMN LOGO, that’s how serious I am about my newfound short story obsession. (Never before has a New…
1 CommentAnother Friday is blessing us with its presence! I have been spinning through a busy week and am excited to get some relaxation time this weekend. So busy in fact that this is going to be kind of a short links round-up, and I apologize. But just know that I love you all, and I want you to read only the best internet content. The writers of Deadpool have never heard of fridging so that’s cool. (Spoilers for Deadpool 2 in this link.) Rebecca Solnit on the idea of sex as commodity. (I.e., women as commodity.) Living beyond tragedy: The…
Leave a CommentClear your schedules, I am going to talk about a book so entirely in my wheelhouse that it and my wheelhouse are basically coterminous. (That’s an exaggeration but not really.) I refer to KJ Charles’s latest book, The Henchmen of Zenda. Before I get into The Henchmen of Zenda, I need to confess that I have this weird soft spot for old-time British adventure novels. There’s no defense I can or should make about this. These are horribly sexist and racist books that I wouldn’t recommend to anyone. I like the swashbuckling. So when I heard that one of my…
Leave a CommentHere’s a line from the first paragraph of this section of the #TraLaFrankenstein readalong, so that y’all can understand how I felt when I opened this book back up. I had not sufficient light for my employment, and I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should leave my labours for the night, or hasten its conclusion by an unremitting attention to it. See, this is how you know that I’m at the end of my rope with Dude Nonsense. I blame Jason Bateman and Jeffrey Tambor, but a lot of different people are at fault. It’s…
Leave a CommentWe have been trying to get our friend Alexis on the podcast and it finally succeeded, but because destiny opposes our works and ways, Whiskey Jenny was too sick to join us. Luckily Alexis and I still have lots of opinions between the two of us, and we had a grand time (though not as grand as it would have been if Whiskey Jenny had been there with us) chatting about book clubs and book swaps, and what we’re reading and listening to, and Aminatta Forna’s latest book, Happiness.
You can listen to the podcast using the embedded player below, or download the file directly to take with you on the go!
Here are the time signatures if you want to skip around!
1:48 – What we’re reading
6:25 – What we’re listening to
12:19 – Book clubs and book groups and book swaps
29:38 – Happiness, Aminatta Forna
Alexis is listening to The West Wing Weekly and My Dad Wrote a Porno! And I’m listening to songs from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the Dear Prudence podcast, with Daniel Mallory Ortberg FORMERLY OF THE TOAST. (Watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend if you’re not already.)
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Credits
Producer: Captain Hammer
Photo credit: The Illustrious Annalee
Theme song by: Jessie Barbour
Transcript is available under the jump!
Leave a CommentWell, the good news is that, in the third section of our #TraLaFrankenstein readalong, the creature doesn’t turn to evil as a result of being in love with Agatha and her spurning him. The bad news is, he basically turns to evil because Agatha (and Safie and Boy De Lacey whose name I can’t be bothered to remember) spurn him. GREAT. The creature continues telling his tale of woe to Frankenstein, a very unsympathetic audience. It’s all about how he reads Paradise Lost and Plutarch’s Lives and The Sorrows of Young Werther and learns — doesn’t seem like much of…
Leave a CommentTIS FRIDAY, and for those of you with jobs that care about this, Memorial Day is creeping ever closer. One more full week and then PART WEEK TIME. While we wait for that to happen, here’s a bunch of cool links to occupy you over the weekend. Ever wondered how the sausage of film and TV casting gets made? The Guardian has a superb article about Nina Gold, the queen of casting. This is a pretty extraordinary excerpt of oral history done by Zora Neale Hurston, an interview with a survivor of a slave ship. George Yancy writes about what…
Leave a CommentI’ll eat my hat if Lara Elena Donnelly hasn’t written a damn lot of fanfic, and I mean that as a very high compliment. Armistice is the sequel to last year’s book Amberlough, which was sold to me as a gayer secondary world Cabaret, an extremely accurate description of its contents. Armistice is, frankly, even awesomer, and I am delighted as hell that it exists in the world. Armistice picks up three years from the close of Amberlough. Cordelia has spent the last three years working for a fragile resistance against the Ospies, whose hold over Unified Gedda has only…
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