Jenn and guest Alex Acks, a.k.a. Alex Wells, discuss the Nebula winners, the upcoming Lord of the Rings series, and more, and recommend cozy reads.

Wells is aBook Riot contributor and author of Hunger Makes the Wolf, Blood Binds the Pack, and Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures.

This episode is sponsored by Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner and our $500 bookstore gift card giveaway.

News

Follow up: Amazon did save The Expanse

The Nebula Award winners were announced

Check out the Nommo Awards for African Speculative Fiction

Zack Snyder wants to make The Fountainhead as a movie

Aragorn might be the star of the LOTR series

Books Discussed

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

Provenance by Ann Leckie

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

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