As always, the Coode Street Motel Six bestrides continents, so after briefly comparing notes on the weather in Perth and Chicago, Gary and Jonathan get down to it and chat about the subjects of the moment.<\/p>\n
How do you talk about books and what was the weather like? Anthologies and activism Books we\u2019re looking forward to Jonathan<\/strong> talks about A.G. Slatter’s A Forest, Darkly<\/em>, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Pretenders to the Throne of God<\/em>, Paul McAuley’s Loss Protocol<\/em>, and A.D Sui’s debut The Iron Garden Sutra.<\/em><\/p>\n Gary<\/strong>\u2019s list includes\u00a0 Rebecca Roanhorse\u2019s River of Bones and Other Stories\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Best of Adrian\u00a0Tchaikovsky,\u00a0<\/em>a novella by Ian McDonald, Boy, with Accidental Dinosaur,\u00a0<\/em>and nonfiction study of SFF by Ada Palmer and Jo Walton,\u00a0Trace Elements:\u00a0Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The importance of settings in fiction, especially regarding climate and weather, and the broader question of whether readers can ever fully appreciate a setting dissimilar to their own and how book reviewers might take this into account. This includes a brief discussion of translated fiction\u2014a welcome new category in this year\u2019s Locus Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The significance of advocacy anthologies that may reflect anything from feminist SF (as in Vonda McIntyre and Susan Janice Anderson\u2019s Aurora: Beyond Equality<\/em>\u00a0(1976) to antiwar works to promoting the New Wave.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>In a new segment,\u00a0 we list a few books that we are looking forward to that will be published in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n