John is eating cinnamon rolls, Alison doesn’t think it’s funny, and Liz has two lists.
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Content warnings this episode: colonialism (chapter 2), COVID (chapter 3), organised crime (chapter 5), privilege and capitalism (chapter 7).
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- Books in the order they were discussed
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Kaiju Preservation Society, by John Scalzi
- Legends & Lattes, by Travis Baldree
- Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir
- The Spare Man, by Mary Robinette Kowal
- Nettle & Bone, by T Kingfisher
- John’s ranking:
- Nettle & Bone
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
- Nona the Ninth
- The Spare Man
- Legends & Lattes
- The Kaiju Preservation Society
- Alison’s ranking:
- Nettle & Bone
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
- The Kaiju Preservation Society
- Nona the Ninth
- Legends & Lattes
- The Spare Man
- Liz’s ranking:
- Nettle & Bone
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
- Nona the Ninth
- The Kaiju Preservation Society
- Legends & Lattes
- The Spare Man
- Consensus ranking:
- Nettle & Bone
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
- Nona the Ninth
- The Kaiju Preservation Society
- Legends & Lattes
- The Spare Man
- Credits
- Cover art: “Favourite Reading Positions” by Sue Mason
- Alt text: John is in the bottom-left, sitting in a chair, wearing a blue shirt and purple trousers, holding a can, and reading an ebook. Alison is in the upper-middle, lying down upside down, wearing a purple shirt and stripy trousers, and reading an ebook. Liz is in the bottom-right, wearing a pink shirt with green trousers, holding a mug of a hot beverage, and reading a physical book. They are surrounded by floating beer bottles, books, the Moon, a mug with a moose on it, and two cats. The word “Octothorpe” appears in scattered letters around the artwork, against a pinky-purple background.
- Theme music: “Surf Shimmy” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)