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LIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)"Where Are They Now?" + "Through the Machine"This episode features "Where Are They Now?" by Meg Elison (©2025 by Meg Ellison), and "Through the Machine" by P. A. Cornell (©2025 by P. A. Cornell) both read by Stefan Rudnicki. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2025-05-2246 min
Clarkesworld MagazineAutonomy by Meg Elison (audio)This episode features "Autonomy" written by Meg Elison. Published in the January 2025 issue of Clarkesworld Magazine and read by Kate Baker.
The text version of this story can be found at:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/elison_01_25
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2025-01-3019 minLIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)"GaaS" + "The Mote in Bird's Eye, or Note Attached to a Frozen Corpse Retrieved from Deep Space"This month's Lightspeed Science Fiction Short Shots episode features "GaaS" by Meg Elison (© 2024 by Meg Elison), narrated by Alison Belle Bews and "The Mote in Bird's Eye, or Note Attached to a Frozen Corpse Retrieved from Deep Space" by Jon Lasser (© 2024 by Jon Lasser), narrated by Roxanne Hernandez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-09-1221 min
Tales from the TrunkEpisode 61: Meg Elison – HemetThis time around, I’m thrilled to welcome to the show Meg Elison! Meg reads to us from the start of their trunked novel, Hemet, which leads us into a wonderful conversation about a whole host of topics, including her own artist’s statement on spooky stuff.
2024-05-1752 min
The SF in SF PodcastOctober 2022: Meg Elison and Laura Anne GilmanMeg Elison and Laura Anne Gilman
Laura Anne Gilman's literary achievements include more than twenty novels, such as the Nebula award-nominated The Vineart War trilogy, and the award-winning Devil’s West series with Saga Press/Simon & Schuster. She'll be discussing her forthcoming works, including the Gilded Age historical fantasy, UNCANNY TIMES, coming in October 2022, and a new series of paranormal romance novellas focusing on non-traditional partners, starting with SOMETHING PERFECT.
Meg Elison is a prolific author and essayist hailing from the DC area. Meg's writing spans across genres, including science fiction, horror, as well as feminist essays and cultural criticism. He...
2024-02-1156 min
Magic, Creativity, and Life with T. Thorn CoyleMeg Elison on Creative HonestyJoin Thorn as they talk with author Meg Elison about life, vanity, pleasure, activism, and creative magic. Meg Elison is a Hugo, Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author, as well as a Nebula, Sturgeon, and Otherwise awards finalist. A prolific short story writer and essayist, Elison has been published in Scientific American, McSweeney’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fangoria, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy. Elison is a high school dropout and a graduate of UC Berkeley. She lives in Brooklyn. www.megelison.comwww.thorncoyle.com
2024-02-0143 min
Head On FireBurn 2023 down! with Meg Elison2023 was great and terrible. There were technological marvels, horrible television, phenomenal movies, brilliant books, and more author drama than you ever thought possible. Come around the dumpster fire as Meg Elison and I build the year its funeral pyre.
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2023-12-261h 40
Failure to AdaptMeg Elison, Minority ReportPrecogs can predict crime, but did they anticipate the seminal science fiction novella would become a Steven Spielberg blockbuster? You'd need a specialist to pick apart the causality, and thankfully Meg Elison, a Philip K. Dick Award winning novelist, joins Red Scott and Maggie Tokuda-Hall to discuss The Minority Report, a 1956 novella, and Minority Report, the 2002 film. You can find the full issue of Fantastic Universe, where The Minority Report first appeared, here. Meg Elison is a Brooklyn author and essayist. Her debut novel, "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" won the 2014 Philip K. Dick A...
2023-10-2548 min
The Astrology PodcastInanna, Venus Retrograde, and BarbieIn episode 412 astrologer Demetra George joins the podcast to talk about the connection between the ancient Mesopotamian goddess Inanna, the Venus retrograde cycle, and the Barbie movie!
During the course of the episode we talk about the ancient Mesopotamian myth of the descent of the goddess Inanna into the underworld, and how it is connected to the Venus synodic cycle, and especially the retrograde phase of Venus.
I saw Demetra give a lecture in 2005 connecting the myth of Inanna with Venus retrograde, and then I was really pleasantly surprised to see a number of parallels with the myth show up...
2023-08-122h 41
The Losers' Club: A Stephen King PodcastMeg Elison on Stephen King and FatnessLosers' Club co-host Randall Colburn speaks to writer Meg Elison about her Fantasy Magazine article, All the King's Women: The Fats. It's a breezy and lighthearted chat that should prove enlightening to Constant Readers everywhere. It should be noted that this was originally recorded in January 2022 and is being unlocked from The Barrens. For more exclusive interviews like this that we haven't unlocked -- not to mention, over hundreds of hours of content --please join us at www.patreon.com/thebarrens. Otherwise, enjoy this conversation. Follow us on Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Patreon | Store
2023-05-0532 min
Fat Joy with Sophia ApostolFixing Fatness With Fiction -- Meg ElisonMeg Elison (she/they), author extraordinaire and lover of fat fashion, is here to talk about her latest book Number One Fan (that Sophia read in 24 hours), what it’s like to navigate the publishing industry as a fat person, and how fashion forms her rebellion against societal body standards. She also takes us back to her experience with her mom’s bariatric surgery and how that radically realigned how she felt about her fat body as a young person.Meg Elison is a Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author, as well as a Hugo, Nebu...
2022-11-1658 min
Fantastic Fiction at KGBAudio from Oct 12th with Meg Elison & Clay McCleod ChapmanHere’s the audio from this month’s Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series with Meg Elison & Clay McLeod Chapman, recorded live on October 12th, 2022, 7pm ET.
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Meg Elison
Meg Elison is a Philip K. Dick and Locus award winning author, as well as a Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and Otherwise finalist. A prolific short story writer and essayist, Elison has been published in Slate, McSweeney’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Fa...
2022-10-2440 min
Experience: This Game-Changing Full Audiobook For Book-Lovers.Number One Fan by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553376to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Number One Fan
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Vivienne Leheny
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Release date: August 30, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Horror
Publisher's Summary:
"Elison’s brutal, incisive novel cuts to the heart of what makes public figures vulnerable and asks us to question our voyeurism." —New York Times Book Review She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all. On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink from...
2022-08-3010h 54Tune In To: This Breakthrough Full Audiobook For Thriller Fans.Number One Fan by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553376to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Number One Fan
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Vivienne Leheny
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Release date: August 30, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Psychological
Publisher's Summary:
"Elison’s brutal, incisive novel cuts to the heart of what makes public figures vulnerable and asks us to question our voyeurism." —New York Times Book Review She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all. On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink from...
2022-08-3010h 54Get Lost In An Sensational Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.Number One Fan by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553376to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Number One Fan
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Vivienne Leheny
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Release date: August 30, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Contemporary Women
Publisher's Summary:
"Elison’s brutal, incisive novel cuts to the heart of what makes public figures vulnerable and asks us to question our voyeurism." —New York Times Book Review She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all. On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink...
2022-08-3010h 54
Find Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, PsychologicalNumber One Fan by Meg ElisonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Number One Fan Author: Meg Elison Narrator: Vivienne Leheny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Psychological Publisher's Summary: "Elison’s brutal, incisive novel cuts to the heart of what makes public figures vulnerable and asks us to question our voyeurism." —New York Times Book Review She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all. On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink...
2022-08-3005 minFind Best-Selling Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, PsychologicalNumber One Fan by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553376to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Number One Fan
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Vivienne Leheny
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Release date: August 30, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Psychological
Publisher's Summary:
"Elison’s brutal, incisive novel cuts to the heart of what makes public figures vulnerable and asks us to question our voyeurism." —New York Times Book Review She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all. On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink from...
2022-08-3010h 54
Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, HorrorNumber One Fan by Meg ElisonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Number One Fan Author: Meg Elison Narrator: Vivienne Leheny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Horror Publisher's Summary: "Elison’s brutal, incisive novel cuts to the heart of what makes public figures vulnerable and asks us to question our voyeurism." —New York Times Book Review She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all. On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink...
2022-08-3005 minExplore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, HorrorNumber One Fan by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553376to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Number One Fan
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Vivienne Leheny
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Release date: August 30, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Horror
Publisher's Summary:
"Elison’s brutal, incisive novel cuts to the heart of what makes public figures vulnerable and asks us to question our voyeurism." —New York Times Book Review She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all. On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink from...
2022-08-3010h 54
Download Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenNumber One Fan by Meg ElisonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553376 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Number One Fan Author: Meg Elison Narrator: Vivienne Leheny Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 54 minutes Release date: August 30, 2022 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: "Elison’s brutal, incisive novel cuts to the heart of what makes public figures vulnerable and asks us to question our voyeurism." —New York Times Book Review She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all. On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a dri...
2022-08-3005 minDownload Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary WomenNumber One Fan by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/553376to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Number One Fan
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Vivienne Leheny
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Release date: August 30, 2022
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Contemporary Women
Publisher's Summary:
"Elison’s brutal, incisive novel cuts to the heart of what makes public figures vulnerable and asks us to question our voyeurism." —New York Times Book Review She created a beautiful world. Now he wants it all. On her way to a speaking engagement, bestselling novelist Eli Grey gets into a cab and accepts a drink...
2022-08-3010h 54
Head On FireWho owns an author's work? with Meg ElisonYou might have at one time said something like “I think if we ever met, I’d be really good friends with Dolly Parton.” Or thought if Chris Evans happened to come into the cafe where you work, he’d definitely go out with me.
Have you ever heard of a parasocial relationship? The term was created in 1956 by Donald Horton and Richard Wohl to describe a unique one-sided relationship in which a member of an audience believes a person they see on tv or social media is their close personal friend. That they’re in a relationship with that p...
2022-08-231h 02
Fat Chicks on TopMeg Elison Hasn’t Seen Straight People in 7 DaysGuest: Meg Elison
Ask Your Auntie: Tri tip, chili recipes
Episode:
Meg Elison, author of The Road to Nowhere series and recent Nebula winner for "The Pill", joins Auntie Vice to talk all things fat chicks.
- Growing up queer and fat.
- Writing futurism and sci-fi with queer and trans characters
- Best Lesbian Erotica v. 6
- Needing more sex in adult novels
- Dating as a bisexual
and... an amazing list of suggested reading!!!
If you a...
2022-04-1152 min
Space Cave236 – Science Fiction Writing with Meg Elison pt. 2Continuation of a fascinating conversation with writer Meg Elison, author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife and many more. Music at the end from Sunflower Bean with Baby Don't Cry.
2021-11-221h 05Space Cave235 – Science Fiction Writing with Meg Elison pt. 1Meg Elison is an award winning and very prolific and talented writer, and thanks to Jeanne Hospod, she was nice enough to drop by and chat about her life, her process, goals, and so much more. Music at the end from Maita with Pastel Concrete.
2021-11-201h 07
Bawdy Storytelling🎧 Episode 198: ‘Tattoos & Taxonomy‘ (Meg Elison)Hey, It’s an ugly word for a beautiful thing, so get back in there! Award winning science fiction essayist Meg Elison weaves a hypnotic true tale that takes us from Musicology to Entomology to Homology to Sexology, with a splash of playing doctor for good measure. Recorded live at the Courtyard Cabaret in San Francisco, this was Meg’s first time on the Bawdy stage - but it won’t be her last! #LifeSciences #Inorganic #Epidermis #Scientist Song: ‘Tattoo’ (Girlfriends) Episode Links Helix: Ready for better sleep? Helix...
2021-10-2923 minFailure to AdaptThe Silence of the Lambs, with Meg ElisonThe Locus Award Winning, Perfect and Prolific Author & Essayist Meg Elison (Find Layla, Big Girl, The Book of The Unnamed Midwife, etc…) agreed to join Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Red Scott to discuss absolutely any adaptation, as long as it was the Thomas Harris novel The Silence of the Lambs (1988) and the Jonathan Demme film, The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Keep up with Meg on twitter at @megelison and her website megelison.com Some resources related to the transphobia in film and in The Silence of The Lambs in particular: The Jo Moses's essay Should we sti...
2021-09-081h 03
The Meaning of Life and Such"Denying absurdity is folly" with Meg Elison (ep 003)In our third journey into the unknown, we are joined by award-winning sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writer author Meg Elison. We wallow around in the 'who am I', 'how do we make decisions', and explore how creative universes are a way to process what's going on in the world around us.
You can find Meg at @MeghanElison on Instagram, or on her website at MegElison.com.
2021-07-0145 min
Eating the FantasticEpisode 147: Meg ElisonShare sushi with Philip K. Dick Award-winning writer Meg Elison as we discuss her pre-pandemic prediction for the kind of year 2020 was then shaping up to be, how reading Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat" changed her life, using tabletop RPGs to deal with the powerlessness felt during recent times, the way rereading taught her to be a writer, our dual fascination with diaries, when she realized her first novel was actually the start of a trilogy (and the songs which helped her better understand each installment), why she followed that post-apocalyptic trilogy with a contemporary YA novel...
2021-06-181h 47
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, FeminismHow to Survive a Post-Roe AmericaOn this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior writer and Outward podcast co-host Christina Cauterucci talks to Robin Marty about the Supreme Court’s plans with Roe v. Wade, and what women can do to prepare for the worst. Robin Marty is the author of The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America. She’s also the communications director of the West Alabama Women’s Center and the Yellowhammer Fund, which provides funding and logistical support to women in need of abortions. They discuss what abortion access might look like if the justices further e...
2021-05-2736 min
Be The SerpentEpisode 84: Not With a Bang...On this week's episode, we're talking about postapocalyptic fiction, specifically stories set in the wake of a climate apocalypse. The tentpoles are Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse, the fanfic "Moebius" by AuroraNova and Mad Max: Fury Road.
What We’re Into Lately
The House of Niccolò series by Dorothy Dunnett
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
Parks and Recreation
The World Figure Skating Championship
A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge
love, in fire and blood by cicer
Pract...
2021-04-211h 04
The Astrology Witch PodcastAstro Tea Chat with Author Meg Elison!In this episode of the Astrology Witch Podcast, I had a fun chat with my friend, the incredible & beloved author, Meg Elison! We discussed her amazing work as a writer, indicators in her natal chart which other writers may also have, astrology, witchcraft, and more!
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2021-03-0550 min
BOOKowiskoBOOKowisko #34 | Zapowiedzi wydawnicze na początek marcaKolejny miesiąc oznacza oczywiście zapowiedzi wydawnicze – tym razem jest ich cała masa! Wybraliśmy kilka, które szczególnie przyciągnęły naszą uwagę, a potem przyjrzeliśmy się dwóm zupełnie różnym książkom z dwóch biegunów literackiego świata!
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2021-03-0217 min
The Book JamSeason 2, Episode 1: Stories of ResilienceMarisa and Mary are back with a new season of The Book Jam! We are excited to have our first guest to come jam with us, Kym P., a Library Specialist and Children and YA Consultant. Today, Kym gets to pick 2 books and Mary and Marisa each pick a complementary readalike. All of these are stories of resilience; these kids and teens find ways to survive, and hopefully thrive no matter the setting, no matter their age. Check out the Books Mentioned below to add even more books to your To Be Read pile.Kym’s b...
2021-02-051h 13
Our Opinions Are CorrectDisobedient BodiesScience fiction and fantasy are full of bodies that just won't behave. Either they're overpowered, or they're trying to consume everything in the world. We talk about why some bodies are so problematic in science fiction. Plus we talk to Meg Elison, author of the new novel Find Layla, about fatphobia and fat-fetishism. Show notes: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes
2021-01-0253 min
BOOKowiskoBOOKowisko #20 | Głośne premiery listopada!Nowy miesiąc zaczynamy oczywiście tradycyjnie od zapowiedzi i premier – a tym razem pojawią się naprawdę głośne nazwiska, jak choćby Katarzyna Bonda, Elżbieta Cherezińska czy Woody Allen. Przygotowaliśmy również dwie recenzje bardzo jesiennym klimacie zadumy i… grozy. Miłego słuchania!
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2020-11-0319 min
BOOKowiskoBOOKowisko #19 | Wielkie kobiety, porywające biografieW dzisiejszym odcinku przypominamy biografie wielkich kobiet, które były i są dla nas wielką inspiracją! Rozmawiamy też o udanych (i tych nieco gorszych…) serialowych ekranizacjach, które obejrzeliśmy, oraz o książce kucharskiej z przepisami na kanapki… miłego słuchania!
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2020-10-2724 min
Slayerfest98 (A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast)On the Firefly PilotScoobies Ian Carlos Crawford, Kiersten White, Alastair Patton, and Meg Elison come together to discuss the first episode of Firefly, "Serenity." The rest of the Firefly episodes will be found on our patreon.
Like us on Facebook(www.facebook.com/Slayerfestx98/), follow us on Twitter(twitter.com/slayerfestx98), and support us on patreon (www.patreon.com/slayerfest98)!
2020-10-201h 01
Scary ThoughtsScary Thoughts #82 - "Is this how you thought it would all end?" with Michelle Tea, Meg Elison and Lawrence English Writer Michelle Tea, writer Meg Elison, and composer Lawrence English join us for a trio of COVID-19-era conversations. We ask them each, "Is this how you thought it would all end?" All three guests have great perspectives on the apocalyptic vibrations affecting us all, but are any of us truly ready for the end?
2020-10-091h 02
All the Books!New Releases and More for September 15, 2020This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Piranesi, Watch Over Me, Legendborn, and more great books.This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community, Ritual, and Find Layla by Meg Elison.Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here.Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book.Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these l...
2020-09-1545 min
Slayerfest98 (A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast)X-Men MCU WishlistHosts Ian Carlos Crawford and Adam Sass are joined by Alex Abad-Santos, Meg Elison, and Aaron Reese to discuss their X-Men MCU wishlist.
Like us on Facebook(www.facebook.com/Slayerfestx98/), follow us on Twitter(twitter.com/slayerfestx98), and support us on patreon (www.patreon.com/slayerfest98)!
2020-09-151h 47
Book Riot - The PodcastDeals Deals DealsJeff presents Rebecca with a host of recently announced book deals of varying interest.
This episode is sponsored by:
Don’t Ever Forget by Matthew Farrell
One by One by Ruth Ware
Find Layla by Meg Elison
Book Riot Insiders
Books discussed in this episode:
A Country You Can Leave by Asale Angel-Ajani
Queen of Thieves by Erin Bledsoe
Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray
The Moon and the Stars by Kia Cothron
The Verifiers by Jane Pek
My Monticello by Nicole Johnson
Twice as Hard by Raphael Sofoluke and Opeyemi Sofoluke
Systemic Exclusion by Kirsty Dunan
The Talk by Da...
2020-09-091h 12
Listen To The Full Audiobook That Keeps Busy Professionals Hooked.Find Layla: A Novel by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547116to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Find Layla: A Novel
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Release date: September 1, 2020
Genres: Tough Topics
Publisher's Summary:
A neglected girl’s chaotic coming-of-age becomes a trending new hashtag in a novel about growing up and getting away by an award-winning author. Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn’t used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science, protect her vulnerable younger brother, and...
2020-09-016h 33Enjoy Amazing Full Audiobooks in Teen & YA, Tough TopicsFind Layla: A Novel by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/547116to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Find Layla: A Novel
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Release date: September 1, 2020
Genres: Tough Topics
Publisher's Summary:
A neglected girl’s chaotic coming-of-age becomes a trending new hashtag in a novel about growing up and getting away by an award-winning author. Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn’t used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science, protect her vulnerable younger brother, and...
2020-09-016h 33
Unlock This Must-Listen Full Audiobook — Perfect While Traveling.Find Layla by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/239227to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Find Layla
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky
Format: mp3
Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
Release date: 09-01-20
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 183 ratings
Genres: Homelessness, Runaways & Poverty
Publisher's Summary:
Underprivileged and keenly self-aware, SoCal fourteen-year-old Layla Bailey isn't used to being noticed. Except by mean girls who tweet about her ragged appearance. All she wants to do is indulge in her love of science, protect her vulnerable younger brother, and steer clear of her unstable mother. Then a school competition calls for a biome. Layla chooses her own home...
2020-09-016h 32
Slayerfest98 (A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast)All About the Buffy Dark Horse ComicsIn this episode, host Ian Carlos Crawford discusses the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Dark Horse comics with Meg Elison, Conor Webster, and Mike Patterson-Pack.
Like us on Facebook(www.facebook.com/Slayerfestx98/), follow us on Twitter(twitter.com/slayerfestx98), and support us on patreon (www.patreon.com/slayerfest98)!
2020-05-251h 28
MacDevOpsYVR podcastSeattle Apple Admins & Cascadia Happy HourAshley Smith, Mac Justice, and Chris Dawe for the Seattle Apple Admins and the Cascadia Happy Hour join Mat X, Shania, and JD. We discuss the changing landscape of meet ups. And books. What are we reading these days.
Seattle Apple Admins
Cascadia MacAdmins channel
Books We Are Reading:
Severance (Ling Ma)
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Meg Elison)
Stories of Your Life and Others / Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang)
The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel)
The Silk Roads ( Peter Frankopan)
2020-05-1955 min
Head On FireEpisode 143: Inciting Meg Elison's Riot
Episode 143 is an interview with author Meg Elison. Meg is celebrating two new books - Find Layla and Big Girl. We have a discussion about creativity during quarantine, whether the apocalypse looks like she imagined it as an author of speculative post-apocalyptic fiction, and the body positive / fat acceptance movements. A good chunk of time was spent discussing writing authentically and inclusively, and how to walk the line as a creator of realistic portrayals of diversity without falling into the pitfalls of stereotypes or problematic tropes.
Find more of Meg Elison her...
2020-05-191h 09
Make DoK. Tempest Bradford and The Power of NarrativeJulia talks to writer and podcast neighbor K. Tempest Bradford about being a creative, teaching people how to write, and whose stories get told and by whom.
Guest Starring: K Tempest Bradford
Links and Show Notes: Originality Britain A.D. / King Arthur's Britain Writing the Other Online Classes and Workshops Writing the Other: A Practical Approach - by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward(affiliate link)
Marianne Kirby Meg Elison XKCD Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band
2020-04-2953 min
Get BookedI Don't Know Why This Is the Violent Old Lady ShowAmanda and Jenn discuss novels about cranky old ladies, rich people problems, great graphic novels, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.This episode is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations, Literati, and Book Riot Insiders.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website.Feedback...
2020-04-2347 min
NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE - Horror and Dark Fantasy Story Podcast (Audiobook | Short Stories)Meg Elison | Familiar FaceYour camera thinks it spotted a familiar face. “Cameras don’t think,” Annie said, looking down at her phone. “Who taught this thing to identify specific faces? Who thought that was a good idea?” “Ok, neuromantic,” Jonah scoffed at her, looking over. “Not everything is a part of the panopticon. Calm your tits.” “It’s just weird that it thinks,” Annie continued, loading more Diet Cokes into the communal fridge. “And why does that make me a new romantic?” | Copyright 2020 by Meg Elison. Narrated by Justine Eyre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2020-01-0128 min
bi+plusMeg ElisonElizabeth interviews Meg Elison, author of The Book of Flora, part three of The Road to Nowhere trilogy.
2019-11-0943 min
Slayerfest98 (A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast)The Sunnydale House Of Horror SpectacularIn this special Halloween crossover episode, Slayerfest 98 host Ian Carlos Crawford and host of The Lost Episode Ryan Houlihan discuss how certain horror movies would've gone if they took place in Sunnydale.
They cover Aliens with Chilling Adventures of Sabrina writer Joshua Conkel, Scream with YA author Adam Sass, The Craft with author Meg Elison, Cabin in the Woods with writer Madeleine Davies, and The Exorcist with Buffy writer Jane Espenson.
Don't forget to like Slayerfest 98 on Facebook(www.facebook.com/Slayerfestx98/), follow us on Twitter(twitter.com/slayerfestx98), subscribe/rate us on iTunes, and visit our patreon (www.patreon...
2019-10-222h 01
Literary AnythingEpisode 10 - The TestamentsThe Testaments is probably the most highly anticipated book of the year and Jayne and Paula are keen to discuss the next stage for Gilead. What are your thoughts? Join the Facebook group to get into the discussion! And don't forget to subscribe and rate us on iTunes!
Books they mention:
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Model Wife by Tricia Stringer
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
The Year of Less by Cait Flanders
The Subtle...
2019-09-3059 min
Drunk SafariLive Show: For the 'GramIt's our first ever live show! We had the best time ever at the Betabrand store with real humans! In an actual space! Thank you to all who came out, but especially to guests RED SCOTT-- who was a Mouse Deer Scientist-- and MEG ELISON-- who was a Moa Scientist. We project images and play game and talk about animals that would look great on instagram. Show Notes Red Scott on Twitter Red's personal website The Boars, Gore, and Swords podcast on iTunes Meg Elison on Twitter megelison.com The Book of the Unnamed M...
2019-06-1446 min
BiSciFi PodcastReproductive Slavery and the Apocalypse: Meg ElisonReproductive Slavery and the Apocalypse: Meg Elison
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This episode features author of the Philip K. Dick Award-winning The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, Meg Elison. We talk about menstruating during the apocalypse, the “importance” of furthering the species, and I ramble at Meg about my grandmother watching lesbian porn.
Stuff we talk about in this episode:
The Road to Nowhere series by Meg Elison
Kindred & The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
The Children of Men by PD James
The Handmaid’s Tale...
2019-06-1000 min
The SSR PodcastEpisode 50: Bridge to TerabithiaKatherine Paterson’s beloved Bridge to Terabithia is the perfect subject for SSR’s milestone FIFTIETH episode! The winner of the 1978 Newbery Medal, this novel is perhaps best known for its truly heartbreaking ending and the way it introduces young readers to grief. Drawing on her own experience watching her young son lose a best friend to a tragic accident, Paterson touches on themes of imagination, friendship, poverty, conservatism, religion, and more in Terabithia. We take a deep dive into all of these subjects in Episode 50!This week’s guest is Meg Elison, who identifies as an LGBTQ...
2019-06-0457 min
Book Squad Podcast041: How to Podcast NothingThis is an episode about Doing Nothing. Well, it's about Doing Something to Do Nothing. It's also about lemons and cows. What? Yeah. Just listen.
Show notes: https://lplks.org/blogs/post/041-how-to-podcast-nothing/
Two Book Minimum:
The Farmer's Son (or The Cow Book if you're in Ireland) by John Connell
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Book of Flora by Meg Elison
The Natural Home by Isabelle Louet
She Said/She Said: How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 da...
2019-05-091h 15
New Books in Science FictionMeg Elison, "The Book of Flora" (47North, 2019)Meg Elison’s The Book of Flora (47North, 2019) trilogy is as much about gender as it is about surviving the apocalypse.The first installment, the Philip K. Dick Award-winning The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, set the tone with a pandemic that destroyed civilization, leaving behind 10 men for every woman. To avoid rape and enslavement in this male-dominated landscape, the eponymous midwife must present herself as a man to survive.In the next volume, The Books of Etta, set a century later, gender remains fraught but the rules have changed. The midwife’s legacy lives on i...
2019-05-0338 min
Step Inside This Riveting Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.The Book of Flora by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347895to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of Flora
Series: #3 of The Road to Nowhere
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Shakina Nayfack
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Release date: April 23, 2019
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
In this Philip K. Dick Award–winning series, one woman’s unknowable destiny depends on a bold new step in human evolution. In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trade...
2019-04-238h 57
Get Lost In The Full Audiobook That Keeps Thriller Fans Hooked.The Book of Flora by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/134190to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of Flora
Series: Road to Nowhere, Book 3
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Shakina Nayfack
Format: mp3
Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
Release date: 04-23-19
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 251 ratings
Genres: Genre Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an...
2019-04-238h 57Explore New Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & DystopianThe Book of Flora by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347895to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of Flora
Series: #3 of The Road to Nowhere
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Shakina Nayfack
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Release date: April 23, 2019
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
In this Philip K. Dick Award–winning series, one woman’s unknowable destiny depends on a bold new step in human evolution. In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trade...
2019-04-238h 57Explore the Latest Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science FictionThe Book of Flora by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/347895to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of Flora
Series: #3 of The Road to Nowhere
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Shakina Nayfack
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
Release date: April 23, 2019
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
In this Philip K. Dick Award–winning series, one woman’s unknowable destiny depends on a bold new step in human evolution. In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trade...
2019-04-238h 57
GlitterShipEpisode #68: "These Are the Attributes By Which You Shall Know God" by Rose LembergThese Are the Attributes By Which You Shall Know God
by Rose Lemberg
Father is trying to help me get into NASH. He thinks that seeing a real architect at work will help me with entrance exams. So father paid money, to design a house he does not want, just to get me close to Zepechiar. He is a professor at NASH and a human-Ruvan contact.
Reason and matter—these are the cornerstones of Spinoza’s philosophy that the Ruvans admire so much. Reason and matter: an architect’s mind and building...
2019-03-1819 min
Litquake's Lit CastCharlie Jane Anders and Meg Elison: Lit Cast Live Episode 99Fantasy and science fiction stories have long embraced the darker themes of a dystopian future. Do these narratives speak to our fears of what the future will bring, or do they reflect the current reality in which the authors live and write? Is futuristic fiction pure escapism, or can it alter our destiny? In this episode of Lit Cast Live, Bay Area authors Charlie Jane Anders (All the Birds in the Sky; The City in the Middle of the Night), and Meg Elison (The Book of the Unnamed Midwife) explore these questions and more in a discussion moderated by...
2019-03-1251 minLIGHTSPEED MAGAZINE - Science Fiction and Fantasy Story Podcast (Sci-Fi | Audiobook | Short Stories)Meg Elison | Endor HouseMeet Hermes Maleficarum, the reclusive force behind the multiverse’s biggest publishing house. A mystery generations in the making. The first thing I notice about Hermes was how unlike the rest of his family he seems. Hermes’ parents, Taliesin and his wife Morgana, were something of a power couple in the magic business, cutting a twin swath like obsidian blades at every fashionable event. | Copyright 2019 by Meg Elison. Narrated by Pandora Kew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2019-01-2422 min
Drunk SafariAlways Come a' Scuttling'the earth's public lice' and 'the great allegory bird' The Milky Way Galaxy's greatest person MEG ELISON is back, and she's here to hate on a crab, whose migratory habits are nightmarish at best. We get into extinction with Dodo Birds and unsettling scuttling with the Christmas Island Red Crab on our newest! Show Notes Meg Elison on Twitter megelison.com The Book of the Unnamed Midwife on Amazon The Book of Etta on Amazon PREORDER The Book of Flora! If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women on McSweeney's Support...
2018-12-0731 min
Shipwreck SFBook 63 > Winnie-the-PoohHey hunnys. If Disney can make Christopher Robin look like a horror film, we can make the Pooh Forest universe into an orgy. After all, as Pooh himself famously said, "You don't spell [love]...you feel it." So let's feel it together, with thanks to Meg Elison, Lauren Parker, Maia Jannele, Joe Wadlington, Sarah Manolis, and The Horrible Heffal-hump. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
2018-10-1800 min
Get BookedToxic Friendships, Maybe Wrapped Up in MurderAmanda and Jenn discuss vacation reads for dads, toxic friendships, disabled characters, and more in this week’s episode of Get Booked.This episode is sponsored by TBR, A Nice Day for a Cowboy Wedding by Nicole Helm, and Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep.Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, vis...
2018-10-0452 min
The SF in SF PodcastJune 2018: Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Meg Elison, Ellen KlagesReadings and conversation with Lucy Jane Bledsoe, Meg Elison, Ellen Klages
Lucy Jane Bledsoe, most recent novel, The Evolution of Love, came out in May. She's the author of a collection of short stories, a collection of narrative nonfiction, and four other novels, including A Thin Bright Line and The Big Bang Symphony. Her fiction has won a Yaddo Fellowship, the 2013 Saturday Evening Post Fiction Award, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, the Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction, a Pushcart nomination, a California Arts Council Fellowship, an American Library Association Stonewall Award, and two National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Fellowships.
Meg...
2018-07-2953 min
Drunk Safari23 Feet of Meata.k.a. 'sparkle spits' and 'ocean hankies' Special guest MEG ELISON is back and she's here talk the many and terrible caves of the world, but especially those that glow! We talk vomit nets, sparkle times, and ALSO Giant Oceanic Manta Rays! It's a lot. And you don't know Elsa, maybe she DID make her ice palace with vomit. Show Notes Meg Elison on Twitter megelison.com The Book of the Unnamed Midwife on Amazon The Book of Etta on Amazon If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women on McSweeney's Support Dr...
2018-07-0632 min
Scary ThoughtsEpisode 37 - Faking It, Phoebe (2017) The self-published vampire novelette "Faking It, Phoebe" caught Chad's eye on Amazon, so we invited our friend, author Meg Elison to join us in a conversation about genre fiction, the publishing world, girls in nerdom and vampires vs. goths.
2018-05-251h 35Shipwreck SFBook 55 > A Tale of Two CitiesLet's oversimplify the French Revolution! Shipwreck goes #DeepDickens with A Tale of Two Cities, because Fanfic recognizes Fanfic. This month's fellow revolutionaries include Lily Miller, Mel Burke, Moon Choe, Diane Glazman, Claire Rice, and Meg Elison. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
2018-05-1700 minShipwreck SFBook 49 > The Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestGreetings, Merry Pornsters! For the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, Shipwreck writes fanfiction about Tom Wolfe's Summer of Love fanfiction epic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, with some generation-defining work by Lauren Parker, Kendra McPhee, Meg Elison, Julia Wilde, Chase Kamp, and the Cummer of Love. Hop on the bus. Stories performed by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
2018-03-1900 min
Be the SerpentEpisode 3: Apocalypse Sometime, Maybe Next Tuesday On this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison, the Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, "Sailor's Delight" by jinjurly, and what we'd do in the event of an apocalypse.
Things we mentioned:
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Meg Ellison)
Star Wars
Mad Max: Fury Road
"Sailor's Delight"
Broken Earth trilogy (N. K. Jemisin)
School’s Out Forever
Lord of the Flies
In the End (Alexandra Rowland)
"Solfege" (Freya Marske)
“The Day it Fell Apart” (Leslie Fish)
Natural Disasters
What we’re reading lately:
Frederica (Georgette Heyer)
Lotus Blue (Ca...
2018-03-1452 minNew Books in Science FictionMeg Elison, “The Book of Etta” (47North, 2017)Born into a world where men vastly outnumber women, Etta is expected to choose between two roles: mother or midwife.
And yet the protagonist of Meg Elison‘s eponymous second novel chooses a third: raider, a job that allows her to roam a sparsely populated Midwest, witnessing the myriad ways people have figured out how to survive.
The Book of Etta is among this year’s nominees for the Philip K. Dick Award, following in the footsteps of its predecessor, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, which earned Elison the Philip K. Dick Award in 2015.
2018-03-0129 minBe The SerpentEpisode 3: Apocalypse Sometime, Maybe Next TuesdayOn this episode of Be the Serpent, we're talking about The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison, the Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, "Sailor's Delight" by jinjurly, and what we'd do in the event of an apocalypse.
Things we mentioned:
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (Meg Ellison)
Star Wars
Mad Max: Fury Road
"Sailor's Delight"
Broken Earth trilogy (N. K. Jemisin)
School’s Out Forever
Lord of the Flies
In the End (Alexandra Rowland)
"Solfege" (Freya Marske)
“The Day it Fell Apart” (Leslie Fish)...
2018-02-2852 min
Slayerfest98 (A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast)Ep 50: Giles' Demon Drag RaceIn the 50th episode of Slayerfest 98, host Ian Carlos Crawford and guest host Adam Sass discuss the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4 episode "A New Man" with special guests John Leavitt and Meg Elison.
Don't forget to like Slayerfest 98 on Facebook(https://www.facebook.com/Slayerfestx98/), follow us on Twitter(https://twitter.com/slayerfestx98), and subscribe/rate us on iTunes! New episodes come out every Tuesday (the same day Buffy aired), so see you all back here next week!
2018-02-271h 16
Book Squad Podcast014: Better Living Through DystopiaTWICE a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, and beyond.
TWO BOOK MINIMUM:
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
When She Woke by Hillary Jordan (and Mudbound by the same)
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made A Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life by Ayelet Waldman
SHE SAID/SHE SAID: THE DILEMMA.
The Bo...
2017-11-221h 01Drunk SafariCapri Sun Full of Gorea.k.a. 'venomous vixens' and 'delicious snot bugs' Special guest MEG ELISON is here to make you unafraid of some spiders who could probably kill you? Anyway, her voice is like honey and she's probably got bigger balls than you. We also talk about Maggie's favorite food, I mean animal, I mean bug. Basically it's a bug. Related pro tip: If you have a vagina, never date a person who won't eat oysters. Show Notes Meg Elison on Twitter megelison.com The Book of the Unnamed Midwife on Amazon If Women W...
2017-11-0332 min
Head On FireEpisode 112: Inciting A Hallowed Riot (2017)A Mystery in the Webster Tunnel - Meg Elison
Witches’ Ball - The Dagons
The Haunted Oak - Paul Lawrence Dunbar as read by Stephanie Swan Quills
Black Eyes - David Wirsig
Lady M.’s Fortune Shoppe - Fire Lyte
2017-10-3130 min
Scary ThoughtsEpisode 26 - It The subject of our first live episode is the new version of Stephen King's IT (2017). We are joined by Philip K. Dick Award-winning horror writer Meg Elison (The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, The Book of Etta) and editor and publisher Jeremey Lassen (Borderlands Books, Nightshade Books). Just like the film, this episode is fun and loud. In fact, if this is your first listen, don't despair at the noisy café sounds, our audio quality is usually top-notch thanks to Marc's chronic audiophilia.
2017-09-271h 15
SF3The Book of the Unnamed MidwifeHive! We review and discuss "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" by Meg Elison.
2017-09-0130 minSF3Meg Elison InterviewAn interview with Meg Elison, author of "The Book of the Unnamed Midwife" and "The Book of Etta".
2017-08-1531 min
Book Squad PodcastEp 07: Lucky Number Seven - Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Feminist post-apocalypse, and more!Once a month, the librarians are in, with their favorite recommendations in Two Book Minimum, a toe-to-toe discussion on a book or topic in She Said/She Said, as well as news from the book world, updates from Lawrence Public Library, Audio Reader programs and beyond.
This month's episode features...
Two Book Minimum:
- The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
- The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
She Said / She Said: Encyclopedia...
2017-04-2837 min
Listen To A Addictive Full Audiobook On Your Commute.The Book of Etta by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279746to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of Etta
Series: #2 of The Road to Nowhere
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Adenrele Ojo
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Release date: February 21, 2017
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
A Philip K. Dick Award nominee. In a devastated world, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future. Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and c...
2017-02-2111h 03Absorb A Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook On Your Commute.The Book of Etta by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279746to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of Etta
Series: #2 of The Road to Nowhere
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Adenrele Ojo
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Release date: February 21, 2017
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
A Philip K. Dick Award nominee. In a devastated world, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future. Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and c...
2017-02-2111h 03Get Top Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & DystopianThe Book of Etta by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279746to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of Etta
Series: #2 of The Road to Nowhere
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Adenrele Ojo
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Release date: February 21, 2017
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
A Philip K. Dick Award nominee. In a devastated world, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future. Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and c...
2017-02-2111h 03Grab the Essential Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science FictionThe Book of Etta by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/279746to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of Etta
Series: #2 of The Road to Nowhere
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Adenrele Ojo
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Release date: February 21, 2017
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 4
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
A Philip K. Dick Award nominee. In a devastated world, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future. Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague that wiped away the world that was. In the world that is, women are scarce and c...
2017-02-2111h 03Head On FireEpisode 107: Inciting A Feminist RiotEpisode 107 features interviews with two bad ass feminist voices: Dr. Leah Torres and author Meg Elison.
Dr. Torres will be discussing the recent election and what women should be doing to prepare for a Trump administration in regards to access to healthcare, birth control, and abortion.
Meg Elison discusses her novel, The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, and its upcoming sequel regarding a dystopian future in which women are endangered and access to proper healthcare is a thing of the past. (I promise this was written to be fiction.)
News: Michigan HB 4643, update on...
2016-12-121h 50
Listen To The Unforgettable Full Audiobook Experience!The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270742to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Series: #1 of The Road to Nowhere
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Angela Dawe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Release date: October 11, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award Winner When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for t...
2016-10-119h 17Get Hooked On The Most Heart-Pounding Full Audiobook Today!The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270742to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Series: #1 of The Road to Nowhere
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Angela Dawe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Release date: October 11, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award Winner When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for t...
2016-10-119h 17
Relish The Full Audiobook That Keeps Thriller Fans Hooked.The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/159504to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Series: Road to Nowhere, Book 1
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Angela Dawe
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
Release date: 10-11-16
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 3,366 ratings
Genres: Medical & Forensic
Publisher's Summary:
2016-10-119h 14Get Top Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & DystopianThe Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270742to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Series: #1 of The Road to Nowhere
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Angela Dawe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Release date: October 11, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3
Genres: Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Publisher's Summary:
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award Winner When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for t...
2016-10-119h 17Grab the Essential Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science FictionThe Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg ElisonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/270742to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
Series: #1 of The Road to Nowhere
Author: Meg Elison
Narrator: Angela Dawe
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes
Release date: October 11, 2016
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.63 of Total 8
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 and Philip K. Dick Award Winner When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth’s population—killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for t...
2016-10-119h 17Shipwreck SFBook 30 > Slaughterhouse-FiveListen: we asked six fantastic writers to muck up Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five in the pursuit of cheap thrills, free will, and maybe even a little agency. It happened, more or less. Providing the words were Madeline Gobbo, Lauren Parker, Tara Marsden, Melissa Tan, Meg Elison, and so on. Providing the musical voice: Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
2015-11-1100 minShipwreck SFBook 29 > CarrieJust in time for Halloween, it's Shipwreck's third annual Stephen Kingtober. This year we tackled The Master's short story cum short novel about the rigors of adult onset puberty. Hurling sanitary napkins in the locker room: Virgie Tovar, Meg Elison, Spencer Bainbridge, Jessica Lachenal, Na'amen Tilahun, and Lily Miller. All fic read by Baruch Porras-Hernandez.
2015-10-3000 min
The Writer and The CriticEpisode 45: 'The Godless' and 'The Book of the Unnamed Midwife'On this episode of The Writer and the Critic your hosts,
Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, open with a discussion about gender, publishing and awards, focused around the following articles:
"Books About Women Don't Win Big Awards" by Nicola Griffith (see also the follow-up post on this project)
"Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name" by Catherine Nichols
They then move on to the two chosen books, The Godless by Ben Peek (31:55) and The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison (1:12:45).
The reviews, blogs and podcasts mentioned during...
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