The Sword and Laser
Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont
Read along with the Sword and Laser book club! From classic science fiction to the latest gritty fantasy, we cover it. Subscribe for book discussions, author interviews, hot releases, and news from the genre fiction world!
Episodes
Mentioned books
Mar 15, 2018 • 40min
#319 - An Unkindness of Blurbs
More Pratchett TV coming, and more Rothfuss books? Plus more deep discussion about an Unkindness of Ghosts, including why blurbs may lead you astray.
Mar 2, 2018 • 41min
#318 - I Wanna Know What Love Is
Tom tries to convince Veronica to fight hate, but A Wrinkle In Time has her questioning love's power.
Feb 16, 2018 • 28min
#317 - Crew Goals
Hey the Hugo nominations are open and you can vote for us! Also Firefly is coming back as books. And the Hugo nominations are open and you can vote for us. Plus StoryBundle has an awesome set of books called Black Narratives! And the Hugo nominations are open and you can vote for us. Oh and the Locus Awards are open for voting. That one... you can't vote for us. But you can vote for us in the Hugos.
Feb 1, 2018 • 43min
#316 - Why'd Ya Do It, Ernie?
We share our memories and thoughts on the passing of Ursula K. Leguin. We also talk about how silly it is to think anybody but George R. R. Martin truly knows the release date for Winds of Winter, and discover the true villain of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Jan 19, 2018 • 31min
#315 - Philip K Dick Move
Goodbye Shannara, hello The Blade Itself TV show? Also Moby Dick and Philip K Dick have different problems, and what the monster in Frankenstein might truly represent.
Jan 4, 2018 • 39min
#314 - Not-So-Young Frankenstein
It's a whole new year of books, and we have some suggestions! Plus the science behind Westeros and the amazing 200-year-old Mary Shelley.
Dec 21, 2017 • 42min
#313 - No Bones to Pick
Ready Player One may have a sequel, The Witcher TV show has a show runner, and we have no bones to pick with California Bones.
Dec 8, 2017 • 35min
#312 - Eating Bones for Fun and Magic
#312 - Eating Bones for Fun and Magic by Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont
Nov 30, 2017 • 42min
#311 - Science Fiction Triggers Clickbait Headline
This week we have a lot to say about wine, some to say about Amazon's Lord of the Rings series and loads to say as we wrap up Connie Willis' Doomsday Book. Plus we kind of sort of kick off December's Book, California Bones.
Nov 10, 2017 • 36min
#310 - Apocalypse 1870
OMG. Patrick Rothfuss is best buds with Lin-Manuel Miranda and they're doing a TV prequel to Kingkiller Chronicles, while Felicia Day plays Poppy the Dragonologist AND Amazon wants to do a Tolkien series. And that doesn't even begin to shed light on how good our book pick Doomsday Book is. But the piece de resistance of the show is one man's story of losing power and trying to read.
