{"id":5729,"date":"2020-01-19T20:02:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T12:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=5729"},"modified":"2020-01-20T17:11:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T09:11:15","slug":"episode-363-books-were-looking-forward-to-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2020\/01\/19\/episode-363-books-were-looking-forward-to-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 363: Books We&#8217;re Looking Forward to in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/jonathanstrahan.podbean.com\/mf\/web\/jyjcm7\/cityj.jpeg\" alt=\"cityj.jpeg\" width=\"150\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" \/>After last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s episode where Jonathan and Gary discussed their favourite books from 2019, this time they talk about books they&#8217;re looking forward to in 2020 (a few of which, in fairness, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already seen or in Jonathan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case even edited).<\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pretty varied list, and probably incomplete, so feel free to suggest more titles that we might not have known about. Overall, though, 2020 is starting off as a pretty promising year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Episode 363: Books We're Looking Forward to in 2020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/pmzea-d020d5?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1&amp;skin=1&amp;btn-skin=107&amp;auto=0&amp;share=1&amp;fonts=Helvetica&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;pbad=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"122\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Gary&#8217;s list<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Susanna Clarke, <em>Piranesi<\/em><\/li>\n<li>William Gibson, <em>Agency<\/em><\/li>\n<li>M. John Harrison,\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again<\/em><\/li>\n<li>N.K. Jemisin, <em>The City We Became<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Hao Jingfang, <em>Vagabonds<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nancy Kress, <em>Eleventh Gate<\/em> and <em>Sea Change<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Yoon Ha Lee, <em>Phoenix Extravagant<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ken Liu, <em>The Veiled Throne<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Paul J. McCauley, <em>War of the Maps<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tamsin Muir, <em>Harrow the Ninth<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tochi Onyebuchi, <em>Riot Baby<\/em><\/li>\n<li>K.M. Szpara, <em>Docile<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lavie Tidhar, <em>By Force Alone<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jo Walton, <em>Or What You Will<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gene Wolfe, <em>Interlibrary Loan<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Alexander Irvine, <em>Anthropocene Rag<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Greg Egan, <em>Dispersion<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey Ford, <em>Out of Body<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Best of Elizabeth Bear<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ken Liu, <em>The Hidden Girl and Other Stories<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The Best of Jeffrey Ford<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Strahan (ed.), <em>Made to Order: Robots and Revolution<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Strahan (ed.), <em>The Book of Dragons<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Jonathan&#8217;s list<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Agency<\/em>, William Gibson (Viking)<\/li>\n<li><em>Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line<\/em>, Deepa Anappara\u00c2\u00a0(Chatto &amp; Windus)<\/li>\n<li><em>The City We Became<\/em>, NK Jemisin (Orbit)<\/li>\n<li><em>Burn<\/em>, Patrick Ness (Walker)<\/li>\n<li><em>Utopia Avenue<\/em>, David Mitchell (Sceptre)<\/li>\n<li><em>Piranesi<\/em>, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)<\/li>\n<li><em>By Force Alone<\/em>, Lavie Tidhar (Head of Zeus\/Tor)<\/li>\n<li><em>Vagabonds<\/em>, Hao Jingfang (Saga)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Angel of the Crows<\/em>, Katherine Addison (Tor)<\/li>\n<li><em>Unconquerable Su<\/em>n, Kate Elliott (Orbit)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again<\/em>, M. John Harrison (Gollancz)<\/li>\n<li><em>Or What You Will<\/em>, Jo Walton (Tor)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Left-Handed Booksellers of London<\/em>, Garth Nix (Allen &#038; Unwin\/Katherine Tegen\/HarperCollins)<\/li>\n<li><em>Ghost Species<\/em>, James Bradley (Penguin)<\/li>\n<li><em>Comet Weather,<\/em> Liz Williams (Newcon)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s episode where Jonathan and Gary discussed their favourite books from 2019, this time they talk about books they&#8217;re looking forward to in 2020 (a few of which, in fairness, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already seen or in Jonathan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case even edited). It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pretty varied list, and probably incomplete, so feel free to suggest more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2020\/01\/19\/episode-363-books-were-looking-forward-to-in-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode 363: Books We&#8217;re Looking Forward to in 2020<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-41","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5735,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5729\/revisions\/5735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}