Calendrical Rot

get comfy in your wire chairs it's a new episode Shonalika and Adam talk about N. K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season and the rest of the books in the Broken Earth trilogy. Strong spoilers from the very beginning, and also for the Machineries of Empire and Imperial Radch books. we thought/talked about this series even more after the podcast was over, here are some additional notes from Shona: Schaffa forgetting most of who he is and consequently becoming a 'better' person is a lot less interesting/compelling than the same resulting from introspection and deliberate change, making him more of a plot…

hey at least we didn't leave it ten years Shonalika and Adam talk about Jeff Vandermeer's Absolution Strong spoilers from the very beginning, and also for all the previous Southern Reach books. Shonalika's stuff // Adam's blog

we have friends everywhere, and some of them are on this episode Special crossover episode with Adam's other podcast Memetic Hazard ! Shonalika and Adam (and Josef from Memhaz, and Owen from Being Our Friend) talk about Tony Gilroy et al's Andor Season 1 Strong spoilers from the very beginning. Shonalika's stuff // Adam's blog

the book that made Shonalika angry and gave Adam depression Shonalika and Adam talk about M. John Harrison's Light two corrections and some final notes from Shonalika: "1. Want to rectify 'people identify with this character therefore he's meant to be sympathetic'. People misinterpret media e.g Joker, Fight Club all the time as endorsements of the subject they explore. This wasn't a fair comment on my part (however I do Kearney *is* meant to be at least partially sympathetic, based purely on the text itself). 2. Instead of 'all the women are sex objects' I should have said; 'treated on a slid…

what about the space between episodes? folks, Shonalika and Adam talk about Micaiah Johnson's The Space Between Worlds Strong spoilers from the very beginning. Shonalika's stuff // Adam's blog