The Best SF/F of 2020

Sharifah and Jenn discuss some exciting adaptation news, a campaign to buy Tolkien’s house, and their picks for the best sci-fi and fantasy of 2020. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.The show can also be found on Stitcher here. To get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter! News The Poppy War series being developed for TV [Deadline] Ring Shout being developed for TV [Variety] Campaign to buy Tolkien’s house: Project Northmoor [Locus] Lord of the Rings casting update [Black Girl Nerds] Octavia Butler’s life mapped out [LA Times] Books Discussed Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse The Burning God (Poppy War #3) by RF Kuang (tw: graphic violence, reference to rape & assault) Burning Roses by SL Huang (tw: animal death, child abuse) Prime Deceptions (Chilling Effect #2) by Valerie Valdes The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (tw: intimate partner violence, harm to children, addiction) Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia (tw: racism, attempted rape, incest, suicide (mentioned), miscarriage and stillbirths, cannibalism, and death of a child) The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson (tw: sexual assault (mentioned), pedophilia (mentioned), death during childbirth, racism, sexism, animal death) Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (tw: sexual assault, attempted suicide, racism, police brutality, suicide (mentioned)) Harrow the Ninth (Locked Tomb #2) by Tamsyn Muir (tw: self mutilation) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices