Luke listened to roughly 30 episodes of the SFBRP in the last month. What did he learn about science fiction reading, novel writing, Goodreads ratings, objectionable content, and much more besides?

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Luke tells Juliane about The Spear Cuts Through Water, a fantasy novel where Simon Jimenez continues to explore expectations of tropes and how to frustrate them… satisfyingly?

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Luke and Juliane start a new space opera adventure trilogy with Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shards of Earth and they get exactly what they expected.

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Luke and Juliane wrap up K J Parker’s Siege trilogy with a quick discussion of A Practical Guide to Conquering the World.

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This book is garbage and Luke asked for his Audible credit back 30% in. Juliane finished it but has major regrets. We’re not sure how anyone gave Ray Naylor’s The Mountain in the Sea a full five stars.

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Luke reads a Jules Verne story from a time when “Science Fiction” just meant “Fiction with a Scientist in it” rather than “Fiction with Speculative Science in it”: Journey to the Center of the Earth. Is it still an enjoyable reading experience 159 later? He shares his thoughts with Juliane.

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Luke and Juliane have both already read The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov, but they listened to the audiobook on a road trip, and both HAVE THOUGHTS.

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Juliane read Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and so Luke read it again too. In preparation for another octopus-based science fiction book (see upcoming episode) they did a quick a catch-up episode.

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In this special anniversary episode, Luke and Juliane continue their discussion of Peter F Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn trilogy with book 2; The Neutronium Alchemist.

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Luke read the novel and Juliane watched the TV show, so they get together to chat about Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo, the first book in the YA fantasy Grishaverse series.

An ongoing project to transcribe the entire SFBRP archive: https://archive.org/details/sfbrp-transcript

Luke on Mastodon: @lukeburrage@masto.nu

Juliane on Mastodon: @JuKuBerlin@mastodon.social

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Luke writes his own novels, like “Minding Tomorrow”, “Combat”, “Get that rat off my face!” and “The Monster Story Conference”, so download them for free at: https://www.lukeburrage.com/fiction.html

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