The end of the year may be fast approaching, but this episode isn’t quite our usual year-in-review discussion (which will come up later), or our books-we’re-looking-forward-to episode. Instead, we spend some time musing about books we maybe should be looking forward to, if we only knew about them.
This raises the question of forthcoming novels that contain substantial fantasy or speculative elements, but that are marketed almost entirely as general or “literary” fiction. The examples Gary cites are The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard and Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice. (Of course, some of our favorites like Kelly Link also get this “mainstream” treatment, as with The Book of Love.)
This is turn raises the question of how we find out about new novels from the margins of the field, how we choose what we read when discovering an exciting new writer may mean forgoing a new novel by a favorite, and how to find a balance.
Episode 379: Ten Minutes with Ellen Klages
Episode 378: Ten Minutes with Garth Nix
Episode 377: Books in the Time of Coronavirus
Episode 376: Ten Minutes with Naomi Kritzer
Episode 375: Ten Minutes with Jeffrey Ford
Episode 374: Ten Minutes with Tochi Onyebuchi
Episode 373: Ten Minutes with Alix E. Harrow
Episode 372: Ten Minutes with James Bradley
Episode 371: Ten Minutes with Nisi Shawl
Episode 370: Ten Minutes with Ian Mond
Episode 369: Ten Minutes with Sarah Pinsker
Episode 368: NK Jemisin and The City We Became
Episode 367: Ken Liu and the Power of Good Story
Episode 366: Apocalypse, awards, and others
Episode 365: On talking about SF (or chatting under the influence)
Episode 364: On being a fan
Episode 363: Books We're Looking Forward to in 2020
Episode 362: The Year in Review 2019
Episode 361: Jack Zipes at WFC 2019
Episode 360: Margo Lanagan, Ellen Klages and Eileen Gunn at WFC 2019
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