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 322: Theodora Goss, John Kessel and Monstrous Stories
REPOST: Episode 71: Live with Gary K. Wolfe and Ursula K. Le Guin!
Episode 321: Fairy tales, peaches, and so on...
Episode 320: Jane Yolen and a Life in Story
Episode 319: The Books of 2018
Episode 318: The End of the Year
Episode 317: Irene Gallo and the Art of Science Fiction
Episode 316: Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Warrior, Binti, and Beyond
Episode 315: Liz Bourke, Niall Harrison and Debut Novels of 2017
Episode 314: Annalee Newitz and Telling Stories About the Future
Episode 313: Jeffrey Ford and The Twilight Pariah
Episode 312: Fantasy 101, Helsinki and more
Episode 311: Walter Jon Williams, Kelly Robson and Helsinki!
Episode 310: The Years Best Books So Far, the XPrize and more
Episode 309: Epic fantasy, Campbell Awards and more
Episode 308: Paul Kincaid, Ken Macleod, and the works of Iain (M) Banks
Episode 307: Theodora Goss and the Alchemist's Daughter
Episode 306: Geoff Ryman and 100 African Writers of SFF
Episode 305: Kim Stanley Robinson and the Drowning of New York
Episode 304: A New Theory of Science Fiction
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