A Meal of Thorns 27 – 40,000 IN GEHENNA with Arkady Martine (and a 4th Street Fantasy Report)

A Meal of Thorns

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Credits:

• Guest: Arkady Martine
• Title: 40,000 in Gehenna by C.J. Cherryh
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
• Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson

References:

• Vote in the Ignytes!
• Our episode with Archita Mittra
• A Memory Called Empire, A Desolation Called Peace, Rose/House, "Three Faces of a Beheading"
• Mick Herron’s Slow Horses
• Pip Adams' Audition
• André Alexis’s Other Worlds
• Thomas Ha’s Uncertain Sons
• Stephen Sondheim's Assassins
• Cherryh’s Cyteen, Downbelow Station, Foreigner
• Watsonian vs. Doylist readings
• The Faded Sun, Hunter of Worlds
• Leonard Cohen's "The Future"
• Theodore Sturgeon's "The Golden Helix"
• Internet Science Fiction Database (ISFDB)
• Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Rocannon's World
• Joanna Russ's The Female Man
• Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern
• Serpent's Reach
• Amal El-Mohtar
• Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown
• Emmanuel Levinas & Martin Buber
• Octavia E. Butler
• "Third Person Intense Internal"
• Jane Alison's Meander, Spiral, Explode
• Elizabeth Bear
• Ann Leckie, Tamsyn Muir, Jeff VanderMeer
• Ancillary Justice
• Lois McMaster Bujold
• Seth Dickinson's The Traitor Baru Cormorant & our episode on it
• Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence
• A Pattern Language
• David Brin, Vernor Vinge
• Arkady's Bluesky
• Louis Kahn
• 4th Street Fantasy
• Viable Paradise
• Wiscon
• Wesley Andrews
• The Briar
• SK Coffee
• Bogart's Doughnut
• Northeast Tea House
• DreamHaven
• Uncle Hugo’s
• Delany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw and The Motion of Light in Water
• Cherryh's Wave Without A Shore
• Greg Egan's Phoresis
• Kathy Mar's "Forty Thousand in Gehenna" from the album "Finity's End and other Songs of the Station Trade"

Wizards vs. Lesbians episode with Ann Leckie on C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner