A Meal of Thorns 14 – 2024 Wrap-Up with Roseanna Pendlebury

A Meal of Thorns

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Credits:

• Guest: Roseanna Pendlebury
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

In Memoriam:

Alan Jeffrey & Cameron Estrich-Watson

References:

• Tor’s The Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century
• Jo Walton’s commentary on putting together those lists
• Adam Roberts, Greg Egan
• Katherine Addison’s The Goblin Emperor
• Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel's Dart
• Seth Dickinson’s The Traitor Baru Cormorant
• C.J. Cherryh’s Rimrunners
• Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story
• Carl Sagan’s Contact
• William Goldman’s The Princess Bride
• Martin MacInnes’ In Ascension
• Samantha Harvey’s Orbital
• William Gibson’s Neuromancer
• Indra Das’s The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
• Bruce Coville- Aliens Ate My Homework & Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
• Robin Sloan- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Sourdough, Moonbound
• Nerds of a Feather
• Worldcon
• Centre for Fantasy and Fantastic at the University of Glasgow
• Christopher Priest & Nina Allan
• Adrian Tchaikovsky’s City of Last Chances, House of Open Wounds, Days of Shattered Faith
• Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
• The New Weird
• Readercon
• Emily Tesh’s acceptance speech
• World Fantasy Convention
• Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Eastercon
• Octothorpe
• Vajra Chandrasekera’s The Saint of Bright Doors
• Science Fiction Awards Database
• Marisa Crane’s I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
• Martha Wells’ Murderbot series
• Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song
• Shehan Karunatilaka’s Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
• Molly Templeton’s “The Joy of Reading Books You Don’t Entirely Understand”
• Colson Whitehead, Marlon James
• Emily Tesh’s Some Desperate Glory
• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain Gang All-Stars
• Wole Talabi’s Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
• Cadwell Turnbull’s No Gods No Monsters & We Are The Crisis
• S.L. Huang’s The Water Outlaws
• Moniquill Blackgoose’s To Shape a Dragon's Breath
• Alissa Hatman’s Sift
• Sarah Cypher’s The Skin and Its Girl
• Isabel Waidner’s Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
• Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Library of Broken Worlds
• Rebecca Campbell’s Arboreality
• Vajra Chandrasekera’s Rakesfall
• august clarke’s Metal from Heaven
• Jared Pechaček’s The West Passage
• Emet North’s In Universes
• Johannes Anyuru’s Ixelles
• Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time
• Madeline L'Engle
• Premee Mohamed- The Siege of Burning Grass, The Butcher of the Forest, & The Rider, the Ride, the Rich Man’s Wife
• Seth Dickinson’s Exordia
• Sofia Samatar’s The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
• Neon Hemlock
• Alex Jeffer’s A Mourning Coat
• Luna Press
• Lorraine Wilson’s The Last to Drown
• Greg Egan’s Morphotropic
• Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume
• Abigail Nussbaum’s Track Changes
• Jordan S. Carroll’s Speculative Whiteness
• Camestros Felapton’s Debarkle
• Positron 2020 Report
• Cleveland Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, Typebar
• Isaac Fellman’s Notes from a Regicide
• Emily Tesh’s The Incandescent
• Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has Roots
• Katherine Addison’s The Tomb of Dragons
• R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis
• Natalia Theodoridou’s Sour Cherry
• Yoon Ha Lee’s Code & Codex
• Oliver K. Langmead & Aliya Whiteley’s City of All Seasons
• New David Mitchell?
• Lincoln Michel’s Metallic Realms
• Ray Nayler’s Where the Axe Is Buried
• Tochi Onyebuchi’s Harmattan Season
• Leena Krow’s Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable Voids
• Amplitudes, edited by Lee Mandelo
• Science Fiction Research Association
• Premee Mohamed, One Message Remains
• Stephen King writing
• Roseanna’s “Small Press Dispatch” column at ARB