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Episode 16: ‘Lagoon’ by Nnedi Okorafor from 2015-12-11T04:35:19
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Episode 15: ‘American Gods’ by Neil Gaiman from 2015-09-29T06:40:09
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Episode 14: ‘City of Bones’ by Cassandra Clare from 2015-09-08T01:22:26
I never could sleep growing up. A lot can go through a kid’s mind laying there, waiting for papa to drag his bum foot across my dirty bedroom floor. Mama’d wasn’t much of a cleaner. Two years...
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Episode 13: ‘Mythago Wood’ by Robert Holdstock from 2015-08-22T22:17:15
Ah, who doesn’t love camping? The smell of the grass. Relaxing with friends. Eating sunflower seeds and cotton candy. Watching your favorite player hit a home run. Driving home in your car after th...
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Episode 12: ‘Dawn’ by Octavia Butler from 2015-07-06T20:19:16
Ted was going to end it all. He took $400 out of an ATM and started walking toward the gorge. He passed a video store on the way. He realized that he hadn’t seen Tank Girl in a couple decades. They...
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Episode 11: ‘Cold Magic’ by Kate Elliott from 2015-06-22T02:20:52
This is a true story. In the ‘20’s I ran rum for some unsavory characters. I rode a bit too high on what Abigail Adams dubbed the ‘petrol pony.’ Fast cars. Fast girls. Fast times. Turns out, I’d bo...
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Episode 10: ‘The Martian’ by Andy Weir from 2015-06-09T02:45:16
Nothing like a good human v. nature novel to get the blood flowin.’ And, oh-wee boy, have we got a good one for you in Andy Weir’s debut novel! He starts from a simple premise: how long could you s...
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Episode 9: ‘Purple and Black’ by K.J. Parker from 2015-05-27T03:15:01
We needed something special this week. Not just your run-of-the-mill epic, with the same bland political intrigue, the same conniving highborn jetsetters, and the same Clausewitzian martial maneuve...
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Episode 8: ‘Assassin’s Apprentice’ by Robin Hobb from 2015-04-28T02:49:43
An energetic youth finds himself in a new home. His old family, it seems, does not want him. No matter—there are new and exciting animals to play with here! Uh-oh, why does my dad keep leaving me? ...
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Episode 7: ‘Blindsight’ by Peter Watts from 2015-04-01T05:16:47
What has numerous squid-like appendages, a blind devotion to satiating its evolutionary needs, and negligible levels of sentience? If you said Stephen Markley, Genre Stop!’s first-ever guest host, ...
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Episode 6: ‘Agyar’ by Steven Brust from 2015-03-17T02:14:31
What do scheming wizards, all-powerful rings, and a world populated by elves, hobbits, and trolls all have in common? All of these words can describe The Lord of the Rings. We read a book about vam...
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Episode 5: ‘The Goblin Emperor’ by Katherine Addison from 2015-03-03T05:06:15
Ugh, another book about goblin kings? Bor-ring. At this point, you’d think the market’s a bit over-saturated. If I have to read one more word about goblin duchies… What’s that? The goblin EMP...
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Episode 4: ‘Name of the Wind’ by Patrick Rothfuss from 2015-02-17T06:34:07
Gunnar? Kentavious? Sheryl? Fww-wooooo? All of these candidates and more vie for the title of “Name of the Wind” in Patrick Rothfuss’ 2007 epic fantasy. Which will it be? In this episode of Genre S...
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Episode 3: ‘City of Stairs’ by Robert Jackson Bennett from 2015-02-04T04:36:52
You know, if you think about it, it’s like, are gods controlling us man, or are we controlling the gods? Whoa. In Genre Stop’s third episode, Bri and Scott finally address their podcast’s growing g...
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Episode 2: ‘Ancillary Justice’ by Ann Leckie from 2015-01-20T06:10:32
Someone call Judith Butler. We’ve got gender trouble. Bri and Scott keep their seats on that Ann-train in Genre Stop’s second episode, as they discuss Ann Leckie’s “Ancillar...
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Episode 1: Introduction and ‘Dragonflight’ by Anne McCaffrey from 2015-01-03T02:08:59
In this inaugural episode, Bri and Scott introduce the podcast, (try to) define what ‘genre fiction’ means to them, and consider their histories with the label. They conclude with a dis...
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Welcome to Genre Stop! from 2015-01-03T01:08:29
Welcome to Genre Stop! Each episode, Bri and Scott dissect a single piece of speculative fiction. The catch? While Bri is a long-time fan of the fantastic, Scott has always steered clear of the sam...
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