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Shelved By Genre Released!
🕑 Added 2023-06-09 13:48:21 +0000 UTC
We've got a new show! It's called Shelved By Genre, and it is an analysis of genre literature. CMRN and Michael are joined by Austin Walker to talk about Book of the New Sun. This is a slower show than some of the others, and so each episode will cover either a third or a fourth of a book. Our first series in The Book of the New Sun, which is made up of four books. The first episode of the show is about the first six chapters of The Shadow of the Torturer.
You can listen many different ways:
- Apple Podcasts
- Spotify
- Most other podcast platforms
- And of course, on the website itself.
As I am posting this, Spotify is being weird about updating and Google Podcasts is just straight-up not working. I strongly encourage you to use literally any platform other than Google Podcasts, which might be the most consistent thorn in my side as a podcaster.
There is a bonus episode tier for this show -- continuing from the HMTW bonusodes, it is at the $10 level. The release schedule is slightly different in that the bonusodes are going to drop in between the regular episodes. So the schedule will be like this going forward:
- SBG Regular Ep
- SBG Patreon Bonus Ep
- SBG Regular Ep
- Off Week
- [repeat for eternity]
We're trying slightly space out what we're releasing and when.
Oh what are the bonusodes? It's the three of us talking about fantasy and science fiction movies from the 1980s (at least as long as we're doing BOTNS). The first episode is on Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings and it comes out in Friday the 16th.
Thanks for listening and supporting us! (RT Monthly comes back soon).
Comments
Andy Bartholomew
I just spent some time hunting around and it seems like most places have the first two books combined as “Shadow and Claw” these days. Shadow of the Torturer by itself seems to be out of print.
Scott
Excited to have the crew back - going to pick up the paperback and try and catch up
JC
Yay! Gene Wolfe was one of the authors I discovered, right as I was burning out on "gamer fantasy/trope factories" when I was 13 or 14-ish. That was around the time Del Rey was publishing the original/un-revised pulp stories of HP Lovecraft and Robert E Howard. This led me down a wonderful path of pre-Tolkien 70s boom fantasy of Le Guin, Moorcock, Poul Anderson, Leiber, Vanceand the weider counter culture work of Jessica Amanda Samson, Charles Saunders, Karl Edward Wagner and so much more neat stuff that I'm still discovering (just started on Tanith Lee). So it always throws me for a loop when I hear "fantasy" as a discreet set of tropes, when it was a more wide open genre before then. I'm still super stoked to see Gene Wolf covered, it's my bullshit. -JC
An Exceedingly Large Moose
so so happy to see these boys together
elbo
So stoked-love this series
Ryan Phillips
I finished just last week! Cannot wait. I'm gripped.
SalubriousBrew
Never thought I would have an excuse to dive into Bakshi again. Here we go 🫡
