A Meal of Thorns 30 – STONE OF FAREWELL with Karlo Yeager Rodríguez

Tad Williams’ Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn is a literally giant work that’s an exemplar of the chain-bookstore and mass-market epic fantasy boom. Author, editor, and critic Karlo Yeager Rodríguez joins to talk about the trilogy’s second entry, Stone of Farewell: its position within and influence upon the genre, and how it holds up. Credits: Guest: Karlo Yeager Rodríguez Title: Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams 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: Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora, and our episode on it K.J. Parker's Making History Jared Diamonds’ Guns, Germs, and Steel David Eddings’ Belgeriad & Mallorian Michael Whelan & Darrell K. Sweet George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire Peter Beagle forward to The Lord of the Rings The Clone Wars meme "The what?" ElfQuest by Wendy & Richard Pini et al. Katherine Kurtz’s Deryni novels Hidetaka Miyazaki & Yui Tanimura’s Elden Ring T.H. White Brandon Sanderson Robert Jordan’s Wheel Of Time H.P. Lovecraft’s The Mountains of Madness & The Case of Charles Dexter Ward "A Line of Ink, Stretching Back Like A Shadow"