Backlog Books
Welcome to Backlog Books, a short, twice monthly podcast for book reviews. Mostly recent-ish fantasy with a dash of sci-fi and who knows what else thrown in for variety.
Episodes
Episode 116: The Last Soul Among Wolves by Melissa Caruso [transcript]
Next Time: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
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Episode 115: The Saint of Steel series by T. Kingfisher [transcript]
Next Time: The Last Soul Among Wolves by Melissa Caruso
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Episode 114: A Crown of Swords by Robert Jordan w/ Daniel
Next Time: ?
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Episode 113: The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso [transcript]
Next Time: A Crown of Swords?
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Episode 112: The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland [transcript]
Next Time: The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso
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Episode 111: Sunshine by Robin McKinley [transcript]
There Is No Sequel to Sunshine - Robin McKinley's Blog
Next Time: The God of Endings by Jacqueline Holland
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Episode 110: Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones [transcript]
Content warning: Neil Gaiman (brief mention)
Next Time: Sunshine by Robin McKinley
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Episode 109: Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan, a conversation with Daniel
Next Time: Acorna by Anne McCaffrey & Margaret Ball
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Episode 108: Greenwing and Dart by Victoria Goddard [transcript]
***I misremembered when the addiction reveal is -- it's much sooner! Mid-point of book 1***
Reading Order - The Nine Worlds by Victoria Goddard Wiki
Nine Worlds Starter Set (EBOOK BUNDLE) – Victoria Goddard
Next Time: Lord of Chaos by Robert Jordan
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Episode 107: Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel [transcript]
Next Time: Greenwing & Dart by Victoria Goddard
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Episode 106: Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner, book 2 of the Fallen Gods trilogy
Next Time: Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel
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Episode 95: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells [transcript]
Murderbot Diaries Reading Order:
- All Systems Red
- Artificial Condition
- Rogue Protocol
- Exit Strategy
- Fugitive Telemetry
- Network Effect
- System Collapse
Next Time: Sunbringer by Hannah Kaner
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Episode 105: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke [transcript]
Twenty Years of Tracking Near-Earth Objects | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Near-Earth_Object_Studies
Books of The Times - The New York Times
Next Time: re-release of Murderbot episode
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Episode 104: The Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
Next Time: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
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Episode 103: Gateway by Frederik Pohl [transcript]
Frederik Pohl bibliography - Wikipedia
Next Time: Vorkosigan Saga Wrap Up
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Episode 102: The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez [transcript]
https://sjimen.itch.io/two-weeks-at-carlisle-manufacturing
Next Time: Gateway by Frederik Pohl
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Episode 101: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy [transcript]
The White Feather Movement - Historic UK
Beat it Batman – this foppish baronet was the world’s first superhero | The Guardian
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emma Orczy | Project Gutenberg
Next Time: The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
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How I started vs How it's going
Next Time: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orczy
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Episode 100: Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan [transcript]
The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words | Books | The Guardian
Next Time: 100 episodes and nearly 5 years of podcasting!
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Episode 99: The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer [transcript]
Next Time: Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan
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