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Tome Talk Reading Recommendations
by The Meddlesome Meeples
Matt and Richard talk about books they enjoyed and why. Tome Talk is one of the Podcast Shorts produced by The Meddlesome Meeples. To find out more please visit http://meddlesomemeeples.com/
Episodes
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Mistborn The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Matt and Richard discuss Mistborn: The Final Empire, the first book of the Mistborn series by award winning fantasy author Brandon Sanderson. You can also watch us discuss this on our YouTube channel, links further down. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can...
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#20: The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton
Richard and Matt discuss the science fiction novel The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton. This is also available to watch on YouTube, links further down. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home…
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#19: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
Matt and Richard discuss a book that they’ve both read, Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, a fantasy crime and comedy book set in the Discworld and the first of Pratchett’s City Watch series. You can also this episode on our YouTube channel, links below. If you enjoyed this episode, please...
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#18: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse book 1)
Richard and Matt discuss the book Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, which is the basis for the Netflix scifi show The Expanse. This episode of Tome Talk is also available to watch on our YouTube channel, The Meddlesome Meeples: https://goo.gl/SJ9SZD If you enjoyed this episode, please…
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#17: Under The Eagle by Simon Scarrow
Matt talks about the Roman historical fiction novel Under The Eagle, the first book of the Eagle series by Simon Scarrow, starring Macro and Cato. You can also watch Tome Talk on YouTube, links below. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos…
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#16: Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Richard and Matt discuss the non-fiction book Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari, as well as his book Sapiens. 9:09 Aristedes De Sousa Mendes 14:05 Google & Medical Epidemics 17:42 Sally Adee & The Helmet of Death If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of...
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#15: Dragons Of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance vol 1)
Matt talks about a book that he first read as a kid, Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Weiss and Hickman, the first book of the Dragonlance Chronicles. Watch this on YouTube, check out the links at the bottom. We’ve also started a new series on YouTube, “The Quest Report Final Verdict”, a heavily...
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#14: Gateway by Frederik Pohl
Richard talks about the scifi novel Gateway by Frederik Pohl, in which mankind finds a fleet of faster than light (FTL) ships with mysterious preprogrammed destinations in their computers, and brave adventurers have to find out where those coordinates lead. If you enjoyed this episode, please...
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#13: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, the classic book that inspired John Carpenter’s The Thing
In this episode of Tome Talk Reading Recommendations, Matt talks about the classic sci-fi horror novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, the award winning novel that inspired John Carpenter’s The Thing, the classic The Thing From Another World, and 2011’s The Thing (a prequel to John...
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#12: Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick
Richard talks about why he enjoyed Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick, a scifi novel from the author of “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” (adapted for the film “Blade Runner”) in which the world is travelling backwards through time in episode 12 of Tome Talk (which is also available to...
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EPISODE 11: The Shadow Over Innsmouth, a scifi horror novella by HP Lovecraft
Why are the inhabitants of nearby towns so distrustful of the inhabitants of Innsmouth? What causes outsiders to feel a wave of revulsion when encountering its people? Indeed, what is the mysterious shadow over Innsmouth? Matthew and Richard discuss the scifi horror novella by H.P. Lovecraft “The...
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EPISODE 10: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Richard talks about why he enjoyed Hyperion by Dan Simmons, a science fiction novel about a group of pilgrims who travel to a distant world to meet a terrifyingly powerful being called the Shrike who will grant 1 of those pilgrims a wish, and slaughter the rest. If you enjoyed this episode…
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EPISODE 9: Aztec Century by Christopher Evans
How might history have been different if Hernán (or Hernando) Cortés had allied with the Aztecs? Matt and Richard discuss Aztec Century, an alternate history novel by Welsh writer Christopher Evans in which the Aztec Empire is a global superpower, and what that means for occupied Britain. If you...
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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Richard talks about why he enjoyed Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a dystopian book in which all books are burned. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on...
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Magician (Riftwar book 1) by Raymond E. Feist
Matt discusses Magician by Raymond E. Feist, first novel of the Riftwar saga, an epic fantasy tale with science fiction elements. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our...
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Space Ranger, a novel by Isaac Asimov
Richard and Matt discuss the scifi novel Space Ranger by Isaac Asimov. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website. You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and...
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The Eye Of The World by Robert Jordan
Matt and Richard discuss the fantasy novel The Eye Of The World by Robert Jordan, first book of The Wheel Of Time and soon to be a major TV series from Sony. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website. You can...
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Marrow by Robert Reed
In this episode of Tome Talk, Richard recommends the science fiction novel Marrow by Robert Reed. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and...
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The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
Matt and Richard discuss The Last Kingdom, the first novel in Bernard Cornwell’s series of the same name, now adapted for television by the BBC (starring Alexander Dreymon). If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find more episodes and videos on our website:...
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#2 The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
Richard and Matt discuss The Lathe Of Heaven, a 1971 science fiction novel centered around George Orr, a man whose dreams could alter reality, even the past. The novel received nominations for the 1972 Hugo[1] and the 1971 Nebula Award,[2] and won the Locus Award for Best Novel in 1972. Intro…
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#1 Caiphas Cain by Sandy Mitchell
Matt and Richard discuss the Caiaphas Cain books by Sandy Mitchell, one of Matt’s recent reads, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.… Read More
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