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Speculative Fiction in Translation #8: Solarpunk, Nexhumans, and Ball Lightning

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https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SFiTEpisode8SolarpunkNexhumansAndBallLightning/Sfit-Episode8-SolarpunkNexhumansAndBallLightning.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSThis month’s episode is packed with info about the SFT from Algeria, Japan, Serbia, Italy, Brazil, Portugal, Russia, and China. It’s a vibrant mix of new books in a series, anthologies, novels, and stories, which I know you’ll enjoy. Plus, you can check out reviews of these and other stories around the internet. I also tell you about my current reading and translation work (starting a new project translating one of my favorite authors, Clelia Farris!). With new stories and books coming to our attention each week, make sure to check the SFT website for updates. Enjoy, and keep reading! A bientôt!

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Book Review: Ignite the Stars by Maura Milan

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Everyone has heard of Ia Cocha. The Rogue of the Fringe, The Sovereign of Dead Space, The Blood Wolf of the Skies; Ia goes by many names and is always a thorn in the side of the Olympus Commonwealth. The popular comic books paint Ia as a buff, white man. No one is expecting a scrappy Asian girl. The Uranium War finished a bit over a year ago and Ia has been on the run. Unfortunately, the Commonwealth has finally caught up with her. Captured by General Adams, she is given a heart implant to keep her in line, then taken to Aphelion—the Commonwealth’s premier academy for the Royal Star Force. Ia might have been a thorn in the side of the Commonwealth, but no one can deny she has skills, and General Adams hopes to find a way to make use of them in his favour. Ia knows that’s never going to happen. She bides her time while she waits for her brother to rescue her, attending Aphelion’s classes and gathering as much information on the secret facility as she can.

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Torture Cinema #82: Gallowwalkers (2012)

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https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SandFTortureCinema82Gallowwalkers/Sandf-TortureCinema82-Gallowwalkers.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS Lizard tails, Hellraiser, and bad Spanish, oh my! In today’s episode of Torture Cinema, Jen, Paul, and Alex are joined by the wonderful Tonia Thompson, founder of Nightlight Podcast, to talk about a film that should probably be thrown into the nearest hellmouth (except it’s SO PRETTY)! The group covers everything from the terrible script to the terrible plotting to the terrible use of some Western tropes to the… everything is terrible, honestly. If I tell you all of it, this would be a really long post when really you should just get to the episode! And at least some folks got paid for making this movie, so it’s not ALL bad. We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Book Review: Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne Valente’s Space Opera combines a love of popular music, Eurovision and a space science fiction sensibility in the grand tradition set by novels like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes were once THE punk band in music. But a death, a breakup, a failed career as a soloist, and Decibel Jones’ post Absolute Zero career is in the toilet. Pity that now that the aliens have arrived, Decibel Jones is the last hope for humanity. The aliens have a test, you see, to determine if a species is worthy of joining the galactic family, or should be blasted into oblivion—whether they can perform decently at the Metagalactic Grand Prix, a song and performance contest that the galactic civilizations put on every year as a way to channel energies that once caused the galaxy to erupt in interstellar war.

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Comics Review: SF&F Webcomics Roundup

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Welcome to the latest instalment of my comics review column here at Skiffy & Fanty! Every month, I use this space to shine a spotlight on SF&F comics (print comics, graphic novels, and webcomics) that I believe deserve more attention from SF&F readers. This month, rather than focus on one work, I’m going to go wide. Following up on an aside in an earlier column, I want to do a quick-hits, roundup kind of post that looks at the SFFnal webcomics that I’m currently following, why they’re great, and why I hope you’ll read them too. (These reviews contain spoilers!)

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Book Review: Gift of Griffins by V.M. Escalada

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Kerida Nast, bound to the Griffin Weimerk, and desperately trying to save her kingdom from invasion, returns in Gift of Griffins, sequel to Halls of Law. Gift of Griffins introduces a new major character even as the plight of Kerida and her allies and friends deepens under the boot of overseas invasion. When last we left Kerida Nast, unwilling magic user, Talent, she had gained some semblance of a fragile alliance with a new Luqs, ruler of her country, with the exiled inhabitants of the tunnels beneath the mountain range that keeps the invading forces from overrunning the rest of the land, and forged a connection to the griffin Weimerk. In Gift of Griffins, V. M. Escalada continues that story as Kerida seeks to fulfill the entirety of the Prophecy and unite her country behind Jerek to try and drive the invaders out.

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