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Episode #7 — Courtney Schafer and Fandom

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Grab your charms, your cloaks, and your protection against evil mages and join Renay and Courtney Schafer — author of the adventure fantasy The Whitefire Crossing and its sequel, The Tainted City — as they discuss science fiction and fantasy, genre divides, gender parity, conventions, favorite authors, terrifying mountain trips, and a little fandom history.

Disclaimer and warning: this episode was recorded five thousand years ago in Internet time and both of us were suffering from the plague.

Mentioned during episode

• Carol Berg
• Martha Wells — The Books of the Raksura
• Greg Egan — Clockwork Rocket
• Ann Leckie — Ancillary Justice
• Peter F. Hamilton — Pandora's Star
• C.J. Cherryh — Cyteen
• David Brin
• Guy Gavriel Kay — Tigana, The Lions of al-Rassan, A Song for Arbonne
• Robin Hobb
• Emma Bull
• Barbara Hambly
• Patricia McKillip
• Diana Wynne Jones
• Elspeth Cooper — The Raven's Shadow

Recommendations

• Joan Vinge — The Snow Queen, The Summer Queen
• Emma Bull — Bone Dance, War for the Oaks, Territory, Falcon
• Carol Berg — Flesh and Spirit, Breath and Bone, Rai-Kirah series
• Genevieve Valentine — Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
• Teresa Frohock — Miserere: An Autumn Tale
• Catherine Fisher — The Obsidian Mirror, Incarceron

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