As the end of 2024 draws ever closer, we reflect on our favourite arts and culture from the past year.
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Episode 58 – 2024 Year in Review
Year: 2024
Episode 57 – Martian Madrigals
Our 2024 book club concludes with Roger Zelazny’s 1963 novelette “A Rose for Ecclesiastes”, wherein a poet goes to Mars and discovers he’s not very good at describing dances.
Episode 56 – That Was Just Cloud Talk, Man
We have only good things to say about The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed (2021), though that doesn’t extend to the term “hopepunk” used in the marketing copy. Is this post-apocalyptic novella set in Alberta the best specifically Canadian piece of science fiction out there? We make the case that it is.
Episode 55 – Slay, Queen
90s fantasy is back, baby! We discuss The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon (2019).
Episode 54 – Fungus Among Us
Will we survive the fungal infestation that lurks beneath Toronto in The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan (2023)?
This horror/near-future science fiction/fantasy novel is packed with ideas and has plenty of relevant criticism of the direction Canada is heading, but doesn’t bring things together in a satisfactory way for the three of us. We talk about what we liked about the book, and the many (many) things that we didn’t.
One Last Sketch 