Wizards Vs. Lesbians

We journey to Fantasy Algeria for today's episode, where the Princess of Fantasy France has arrived to review her colony, only to have her life saved and (in due course) her heart stolen by a captain in her colonial guard.   This one goes deep on the emotional consequences of empire and the conflicting loyalties that arise in conquered peoples, but maintains that focus by ignoring or eliding facto...

A strange book, this - tremendously awful things happen in it but one leaves with the impression that everything might turn out all right if we all just listen to each other. Comfortable, well-written, and features a magical giant blacksmith lesbian who talks to crows.

We're back to Teixcalaan for another dose of diplomatic/linguistic foofaraw.  This is a very comfortable book, and we discuss how nice it is that the legacy of CJ Cherryh lives on, Except With Lesbians.  I could read another fifty of these, honestly.

It's Alexander the Great, but in space, with lesbians!  And she wins American Idol?? Fair warning: one of us really hated this book.  

Here we have a book about being in love with a creep - same-sex attraction, it turns out, is not proof against such things - and about attempting to colonize a planet inimical to human life and the problems that arise therefrom.  This is another bleak one, with the escape hatch at the end difficult to describe in real human terms, but it has its charms.

A girl and her cat (or is it a cat and her girl?) wander away from the factory where they were built and discover what remains of human civilization in a deeply poetic/depressing journey down the Indochinese peninsula to the sea.  It's a downer, but it's Isaac's favorite book we've done so far! 

Chaos!  Intrigue!  Murder cults!  Fantasy racism!  Problematic content as far as the eye can see!  It's Green, and we're talking about it.

It's Journey to the West but with lesbians, in space!  Or, alternately, lesbian Tony Stark wrestles with her own capacity for evil.  What's not to like?

It's our first retro episode!  We read a book from 1990 in which a magical Irish harpist (who lives in Denver) takes on the immortal elves who have stolen her girlfriend using the power of heavy metal - and friendship.  It's a hoot. Many thanks to my buddy Phoebe, AKA moltenglassheart, for providing the fresh guitar lick on the intro.   If you'd like to check out her music (which features both hea...

It's our first sequel!   Back to the world of the locked tomb we go, to talk about a locked room mystery, where the room is a brain, and the lock is denial. 

What happens when you fall in love with the empire that's colonizing you?  What if the empire is a wizard?  How far can we stretch the theme of this podcast?  All these questions and more are addressed in our discussion of A Memory Called Empire.

Today we're discussing a novel Alexis calls "Lesbian Games of Thrones meets The Monster at the End of This Book."  We get a little bit critical, but remember: the author is dead!

In this episode we discuss Ninefox Gambit, a book about calendars, empire, and war, and the first in a number of books we'll discuss wherein the wizard lives inside the lesbian's head, rent-free, and literally.

In this episode we talk about The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood, which is maybe our favorite wizards vs. lesbians tale ( for now) , and which is like the Locked Tomb meets Planescape, but with added Themes.

Hello!  Welcome to our new podcast, where we talk about wizards, lesbians and the conflict that naturally arises between wizards and lesbians.  Our first installment concerns a book that is absolutely stuffed with both, Tamsyn Muir's already-a-cult-classic Gideon the Ninth.