On today's episode we are talking about dystopian stratified societies and "layered cities". Our tentpoles this week are An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, the Snowpiercer movie (the original one), and “To the Victor, The Spoil” by Annakovsky.
What We’re Into Lately
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Devil Comes Courting by Courtney Milan
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
marigolds by colbub
Avatar: The Last Airbender fic
Rogue One fic
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
Other Stuff We Mentioned
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
“Dixit Dominus” by George Frideric Handel
Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan
Embers by Vathara
City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
This post by missellewoods
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Lara Elena Donnelly’s Amberlough series
The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
The Unbroken by C. L. Clark
“And Now His Lordship Is Laughing” by Shiv Ramdas
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin
"Victory Condition" by astolat
Les Mis (musical)
Les Miserables (disambiguation)
For Next Time
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Content Warnings
Sexual assault, racism, and slavery in An Unkindness of Ghosts
Violence, child harm in Snowpiercer
Sex trafficking, attempted suicide, and adult/minor relationship in “To the Victor, The Spoil”
General warnings for discussion in the episode: the spectre of pedophilia, cannibalism, classism and prejudice (as well as all above listed warnings from the tentpoles)
Transcription
The transcript of this episode can be found here. Thank you to our team of scribes for their great work!