Join us as we discuss the eighth Hugo Award winner: Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land.
Host: Christine D. Baker, a historian who lives in Vancouver, BC. You can find her at @klaxoncomms.com on Bluesky or follow what she's reading at her website: https://klaxoncomms.com/reading/
This month's guest is Elias Eells of Bar Cart Bookshelf, where he reviews books and makes cocktails to go with them! You can buy his book, Cocktails and Consoles, whereever books are found. He also has an amazing sounding short story, "The Peacock Wizard and the Cave of the Busty Snake Ladies," in the forthcoming collection Shatter the Sun: Queer Tales of Untold Adventure (edited by dave ring). You can follow him on Bluesky at @eliaseells.bsky.social.
From about 13:11 to about 45:40, Christine is recapping the book, which has A LOT of spoilers. The rest of the episode isn't spoiler free, but that section goes through the plot in detail.
Did you know that anyone can vote for the Hugos?
Intro music by Breakz Studios!
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Some things we mention, more info about some of these in the monthly free email from Patreon:
-A.K. Larkwood, The Unspoken Name
-Jen Lyons
-Tamsyn Muir
-Dune
-Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
-Tor Essentials Line
-The Hobbit
-Psychopomp
-Neon Hemlock
-Ancillary Review of Books
-Nerds of a Feather
-John Scalzi
-Ursula K LeGuin
-Terry Brooks
-Prairie Oyster
-L Ron Hubbard, Dianetics
-John Campbell, editor of Astounding Science Fiction
-Robert Jackson Bennett, Shadow of the Leviathan series
-Shatter the Sun: Queer Tales of Untold Adventure
