{"id":7030,"date":"2023-12-12T06:48:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T22:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2023-12-12T06:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T22:48:41","slug":"episode-638-books-that-were-off-our-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2023\/12\/12\/episode-638-books-that-were-off-our-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 638: Books that were off our radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the year may be fast approaching, but this episode isn\u2019t quite our usual year-in-review discussion (which will come up later), or our books-we\u2019re-looking-forward-to episode. Instead, we spend some time musing about books we maybe should be looking forward to, if we only knew about them.<\/p>\n<p>This raises the question of forthcoming novels that contain substantial fantasy or speculative elements, but that are marketed almost entirely as general or \u201cliterary\u201d fiction. The examples Gary cites are <em>The Other Valley<\/em> by Scott Alexander Howard and<em> Moon of the Turning Leaves<\/em> by Waubgeshig Rice. (Of course, some of our favorites like Kelly Link also get this \u201cmainstream\u201d treatment, as with <em>The Book of Love<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>This is turn raises the question of how we find out about new novels from the margins of the field, how we choose what we read when discovering an exciting new writer may mean forgoing a new novel by a favorite, and how to find a balance.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px); height: 150px;\" title=\"Episode 638: Books that were off our radar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=3nawh-151f5da-pb&amp;from=pb6admin&amp;share=1&amp;download=1&amp;rtl=0&amp;fonts=Arial&amp;skin=1&amp;font-color=&amp;logo_link=episode_page&amp;btn-skin=4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of the year may be fast approaching, but this episode isn\u2019t quite our usual year-in-review discussion (which will come up later), or our books-we\u2019re-looking-forward-to episode. Instead, we spend some time musing about books we maybe should be looking forward to, if we only knew about them. This raises the question of forthcoming novels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/2023\/12\/12\/episode-638-books-that-were-off-our-radar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Episode 638: Books that were off our radar<\/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":[48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-48","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","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=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7031,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions\/7031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}