600: The Machine Was a Vampire

Show Notes & Links

Round One:

• Scott - The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer
• Dan - The Rook - Daniel O’Malley
• Glenn - This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
• Jason - Among Others - Jo Walton
• Aleen - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
• Erika - A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers
• David - The Human Division - John Scalzi

Round Two:

• Scott - My Real Children - Jo Walton
• Dan - Caliban’s War - James S.A. Corey
• Glenn - The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstein
• Jason - 11/22/63 - Stephen King
• Aleen - The Calculating Stars - Mary Robinette Kowal
• Erika - The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
• David - The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djeli Clark

Round Three:

• Scott - Luna: New Moon - Ian McDonald
• Dan - Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
• Glenn - The Magician’s Land - Lev Grossman
• Jason - A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
• Aleen - The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
• Erika - Borderline - Mishell Baker
• David - The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi

Round Four:

• Scott - Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
• Dan - Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance - Lois McMaster Bujold
• Glenn - The Golem and the Jinni - Helene Wecker
• Jason - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
• Aleen - Strange Practice - Vivian Shaw
• Erika - Libriomancer - Jim C. Hines
• David - Day of the Doctor - Steven Moffat

Round Five:

• Scott - New York 2140 - Kim Stanley Robinson
• Dan - City of Miracles - Robert Jackson Bennett
• Glenn - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - N.K. Jemisin
• Jason - Gnomon - Nick Harkaway
• Aleen - Hollow Kingdom - Kyra Jane Buxton
• Erika - Delia’s Shadow - Jamie Lee Moyer
• David - Noir - Christopher Moore

Also Mentioned/Not Picked (Compiled by Listener AJ):

Glenn:

• Uprooted - Naomi Novik (also Jason, Erika)
• Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik
• How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe - Charles Yu
• Exhalation: Stories (including The Lifecycle of Software Objects) - Ted Chiang

Scott:

• Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee
• Barsk - Lawrence M. Schoen (also Jason)
• Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
• Three Parts Dead - Max Gladstone

Dan:

• Gideon the Ninth (but not so much Harrow the Ninth) - Tamsyn Muir
• The Martian - Andy Weir
• The “Penric and Desdemona” series of novellas, starting with Penric’s Demon - Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman (also Aleen)
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton
• Foundryside - Robert Jackson Bennett

Jason:

• The Galaxy and the Ground Within - Becky Chambers (also Dan)
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter - Theodora Goss
• Tiamat’s Wrath - James S A Corey
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers (2020s)

Aleen:

• The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo (also the Netflix series)
• The Caledonian Gambit - Dan Moren

Erika:

• The Midnight Bargain - C. L. Polk (bonus 2020s pick!)
• Summer in Orcus - T Kingfisher
• Terminal Alliance - Jim C. Hines
• School for Sidekicks - Kelly McCullough

David:

• Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (also kind of Glenn, on his blog)
• The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu
• Blackout (but maybe not All Clear, which is the second half of the same book?) - Connie Willis
• Six Wakes - Mur Lafferty
• Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse
• Alif the Unseen - G Willow Wilson
• The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle
• The Light Brigade - Kameron Hurley