Superkultur-podcastens årsrevy 2025, del 2

Hvori værterne for alvor tager hul på det seneste års science fiction-TV, samt bøger af diverse genrer. Skuffelserne står stadig tæt, men der viser sig lyspunkter. Måske.

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Hvad har vi set

Alien Earth

Foundation sæson 3

• Dune prophecy

Genkig: Matt Smiths Doctor Who

Pluribus

• Sense8

Bugonia

El eternauta

Hvad har vi læst

China Mieville/Keanu Reeves, The book of elsewhere

Irene Solà, Jeg gav dig øjne, og du så mod mørket

NMAAR, Hvad månen bringer

Mona Awad, Bunny

Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

Philip Pullman, The rose field

Kelly Link, The book of love

Øvrigt

Andor

Stranger things

Common side effects

Redaktionelt

Vi har ikke lært en skid af forrige afsnit, og også dette afsnit er optaget over Zoom. Som et ekstra benspænd ringede en af os ind på mobil fra et sommerhus i det nordjyske, og der kan derfor være enkelte udfald i lyden. Vi har prøvet at udbedre det i redigeringen, og håber ikke, det forstyrrer forståelsen af samtalen.

Denne gang har vi brugt musik af Matt Oakley (The incredible shrinking Larry), Glad Rags (Social kapital (reprise)) og Dee Yan-Key (Finis Comoediae). Alle er tilgængelige fra Free Music Archive under CC-Attribution-licensen.

1/20

A week ago I finished reading two more of Kelly Link's short story collections: Magic for Beginners and Pretty Monsters, published in 2006 and 2008. I previously wrote about her first collection, Stranger Things Happen, here:
https://mastodon.social/@TheNudeSurrealist/115247883232891965

Spoilers to all stories follow.

#kellylink #bookreview #bookstodon

Stranger Things Happen 1/7:

I finished reading Kelly Link's short story collection 2001 Stranger Things Happen. Freely available from Link's website here: https://kellylink.net/books/stranger-things-happen-old/creative-commons.

Reviews of the stories follow.

Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose - Great story. A surprisingly & depressingly accurate depiction of the male (constantly horny) state of mind, with many small details which come together.

#kellylink #bookreview #bookstodon

1/7

I finally started reading Kelly Link's short story collection Stranger Things Happen. I have been wanting to read it for a very long time.

I just started reading, and then got to the story Flying Lessons (which I knew was in there). I read it, and had to stop, feeling emotional.

This is a story that I remember very well.

#bookstodon #kellylink #bookreview

Book Riot: Best Books of 2024

https://www.yearendlists.com/2024/book-riot-best-books-of-2024

#YearEndLists #bookstodon #StephanieBooth #KavehAkbar #KellyLink

McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/10/14/mcsweeneys-mammoth-treasury-of-thrilling-tales/

Most of My Friends are Two-Thirds Water — Part Three

This reading is the conclusion of Most of My Friends are Two-Thirds Water by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It's about eleven minutes long. Like other Okanagan Reader stories it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. You can find my review of the book here. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page. rjb

https://greencomet.org/b/2Yp

#audiobooks #KellyLink #shortstories

Most of My Friends are Two-Thirds Water — Part Two

This reading is part two of Most of My Friends are Two-Thirds Water by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It's about ten minutes long. Like other Okanagan Reader stories it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. You can find my review of the book here. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page. rjb

https://greencomet.org/b/2YN

#audiobook #KellyLink #CreativeCommons

Just finished “The Book of Love" by #KellyLink. I was unfamiliar with her work, but my spouse has read her shorts and wanted to book-club this debut novel together.

Gorgeous writing. By turns witty and heartbreaking and scary and joyful. Not the kind of junk I usually read, but I liked it very much while feeling a little unsettled by it.

Also, the audiobook narrator, January LaVoy, is outstanding.

#books #audiobook

@pluralistic

Great Cory Doctorow review of the debut of the year: "The Book of Love," first novel by short-form spec fic master Kelly Link @KellyLink.

He says it embodies her "bone-dry witty delivery, used to spin tales of deceptive whimsy and quirkiness, disarming you with daffiness while she sets the hook and YANKS…Turns out that she can quite handily do this for hundreds of pages, and the effect only gets better…"

My copy just arrived. Can't wait to plunge in!

#books #fantasy #KellyLink

#KellyLink is one of science fiction's most important writers, a master of the short story to rank with the likes of #TedChiang. For a decade, Kelly's friends have traded whispers that she was working on a novel - a *giant* novel - and the rumors were true and the novel is glorious and you will *love it*:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/book-of-love-9781804548455/

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/239722/the-book-of-love-by-kelly-link/

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Shoe and Marriage — Part Two

This week's reading is part two of Shoe and Marriage by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It's about seventeen minutes long. Like other Okanagan Reader stories it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. You can find my review of the book here. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page. rjb

https://greencomet.org/b/2

#KellyLink #recording #ShortStories #CreativeCommons

Survivor’s Ball — Part One

This week's reading is part one of Survivor's Ball, or the Donner Party by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It's about eighteen minutes long. Like other Okanagan Reader stories it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. You can find my review of the book here. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page. rjb

https://greencomet.org/b/2U4

#audiobooks #CreativeCommons #KellyLink #reading #shortstories

@ewdocparris

#ursulakleguin
#stanislawlem
#italocalvino
#EmilyStJohnMandel
#kellylink
#OctaviaButler
#jorgeluisborges

This is my FSF shortlist, anyway...

Free #OnlineEvent from #LibraryOfAmerica (July 19): The Enduring Genius of #RayBradbury

In #TheMartianChronicles, #TheIllustratedMan, #Fahrenheit451, and other visionary works melding #ScienceFiction, #horror, #fantasy, and high #literature, Ray Bradbury electrified readers and inspired generations of genre-bending younger writers. Acclaimed authors #ConnieWillis and #KellyLink join LOA Bradbury editor #JonathanREller and #SF expert #GaryKWolfe for a conversation about this American original’s towering legacy.

#SFF #Books #Bookstodon

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-enduring-genius-of-ray-bradbury-registration-667627591097

Travels With the Snow Queen – Part Three
This week's reading is part three of Travels With the Snow Queen by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It's about fourteen minutes long. Like other Okanagan
https://greencomet.org/2023/06/30/travels-with-the-snow-queen-part-three/
#audiobooks #CreativeCommons #fiction #KellyLink #reading #shortstories

Travels With the Snow Queen – Part Two
This week's reading is part one of Travels With the Snow Queen - Part Two by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It's about Twelve and a half minutes long. Like
https://greencomet.org/2023/06/23/travels-with-the-snow-queen-part-two/
#audiobooks #CreativeCommons #fiction #KellyLink #reading #shortstories