Episode 083 – The Fifth Season

This month we’re reading The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin! In this episode there are lots of spoilers! We discuss whether or not we enjoy maps in books, grimdark fantasy, protests, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Book We Discussed This Month 

• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• • Map of The Stillness

Other Media We Mention

• Dragonriders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
• A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Discworld by Terry Pratchett
• The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
• A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Links, Articles, and Things

• Dunwich (and other fictional places that H.P. Lovecraft created) are in Massachusetts
• “I make a LOT of maps, and have zero art skills so here’s how I do it“
• Grimdark (Wikipedia)
• Hugo Awards (Wikipedia)
• • Announcing the 2019 Hugo Award Winners
  • Archive of Our Own
  • The Hobbit: A Long-Expected Autopsy (Part 1/2) by Lindsay Ellis
• Pangaea (Wikipedia)
• Colin Kaepernick (Wikipedia)
• U.S. national anthem protests (2016–present) (Wikipedia)
• Tricking readers into acceptance – Blog post by N.K. Jemisin
• Green Ronin To Publish The Fifth Season Roleplaying Game

Book Club Questions

• Bored to Death book club: I’ve Read The Fifth Season, Now What?
• Pingel Sisters: April 2019 Book Club Discussion Questions: The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
• PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club: Discussion questions for ‘The Fifth Season’

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Join us again on Tuesday, September 3rd we’ll be discussing the non-fiction genre of politics!

Then on Tuesday, September 17th we’ll talk about books and other media we’ve consumed recently.