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A lowbrow-loving New Yorker and a Texan Poet divided by experience are united by a love of genre fiction. This is their book club. You better Read This F***ing Book!
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Jul 16, 2018
Jul 16, 2018
1hr 43 min
It is time for the Sleeper to awaken! Join us as we tackle an epic sized episode for Frank Herbert's Dune!
Rachel discusses why she loves Dune while Elena tries to decide if Paul Atreides is a true hero. Discussion covers fashion, ecology and family ties, what we think about the upcoming film adaptation and, like Duncan Idaho after a little too much spice beer, devolves into Real Talk: The Dune Edition of Murder, Marry, Fuck
May your knife chip and shatter!
#ReadDune
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NEXT BOOK: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
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Jun 10, 2018
Jun 10, 2018
59 min
We're doing our part to give life to the blue electric angels in the phone lines by uploading another episode of the RTFBPodcast! We discuss the brilliant urban fantasy, A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin. Take a listen, Come be we and be free!
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NEXT BOOK: Dune by Frank Herbert
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Jan 23, 2018
Jan 23, 2018
1hr 34 min
A Felicitous New Year to you! In this episode Rachel and Elena are joined by our cosplay pal - engineer and Paidhi fan, Eli. This marks the first book we've read on RTFBPodcast in which one of the hosts has the book tattooed on her body.... so yea this book was OK, we guess. Of COURSE, this is one of Rachel's all-time favorites and she's pretty happy to get to talk about CJ Cherryh's Foreigner novels!
CJ Cherryh's genre-bending epic begins with Foreigner, the political adventures of a government employee serving as the lone human allowed amidst the formidable, inscrutable, Atevi. It's space ships, jump-point errors, assassins, tea sets and seat of your pants negotiations as only a dictionary-maker with an extreme sense of duty can serve it. (Always Kabiu). Spoilers: the hero is kind of a huge nerd.
#ISaladYou
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NEXT BOOK: A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
Dec 11, 2017
Dec 11, 2017
1hr 22 min
Rachel and Elena are back with a podcast favorite in the latest Ann Leckie novel, Provenance. Spoiler-heavy (just read the book!) discussion covering Hwae, Ingray, the mysterious Pahlad Budrakim and everyone's favorite - Captain Uisine! Special mentions of the Geck, spidermechs and Ambassador Tibanvori <3
We loved this novel and were overjoyed to be back in the masterful hands of Ann Leckie. A more intimate story than the sprawling Ancillary Justice books. Provenance is a rewarding follow-up that proves Leckie is just as good with overzealously polite translator programs as she is with vengeful ships.
#CollectVestiges
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NEXT BOOK: Foreigner by CJ Cherryh
Nov 19, 2017
Nov 19, 2017
1hr 8 min
Rachel recs a big favorite in Melissa Grey's The Girl at Midnight. Elena and Rachel discuss world building, fashion, and subversion of reader expectations over this scavenger hunt through a war between the magical and bird-like Avicen and the militaristic dragon-like Drakharin.
#Jaspian4Evar
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NEXT BOOK: Provenance by Ann Leckie
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Oct 15, 2017
Oct 15, 2017
1hr 1 min
We've missed our book chats! After moving and some additional travel and conventions, we are back on schedule. Latest conversation is about Emily Gee's Thief With No Shadow. A romantic fantasy with a semi-victorian flair.
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NEXT BOOK: The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey
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Sep 8, 2017
Sep 8, 2017
1hr 10 min
Hiatus is over! We're done prepping like crazy for Dragon Con so we're back into our reading piles. This episode covers Naomi Novik's award winning Uprooted. A creepy fairy tale with a small cast, wonderful prose and the scariest trees we've ever encountered.
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NEXT BOOK: Thief With No Shadow by Emily Gee.
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Jul 22, 2017
Jul 22, 2017
1hr 18 min
Rachel and Elena read Sunshine by Robin McKinley. Not your run of the mill vampire story, and we would expect nothing less from a master like McKinley, this one has a baker with an affinity for sunlight, a modern setting full of magic and a vampire in an unexpected friendship.
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NEXT BOOK: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
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Jul 8, 2017
Jul 8, 2017
1hr 41 min
We're joined by our librarian friend, Lauren, to read Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses. This is an extra long episode because we really loved this book! We're continuing our delving into fairy tales. ACOTAR is a new adult type fantasy action adventure romance with high stakes, honestly written effects of emotional trauma, monsters, war and as always with fairies, trickery!
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NEXT BOOK: Sunshine by Robin McKinley
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Jun 8, 2017
Jun 8, 2017
1hr 22 min
We're back after an unscheduled break (one of our hosts had a major fire but everything is good now!) to read Joan D. Vinge's The Snow Queen, a retelling of the classic fairy tale with an epic scifi twist! We bent our recommendation rules to read this one and were not disappointed! This one has everything from bondage gear boyfriends to ancient super computers!
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NEXT BOOK: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
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