It’s Ghost O’Clock!
Sharifah and Jenn talk ghosts in SFF in honor of the season, pay tribute to Keith Giffen, dig into book banning via Malinda Lo, and more.
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News
Keith Giffen, comics artist and writer, dies [The Guardian]
Rick Steves Casually Reviews Dangerous Fantasy Locations [McSweeney’s]
Prada designing spacesuits! [Design Boom]
Books Discussed
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (so many CWs)
The Edinburgh Nights series (Library of the Dead #1) by TL Huchu (cw: harm to children)
Kelly Link’s story “Two Houses,” from Get in Trouble
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The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir
The Spite House by Johnny Compton (cw: racism, child death)
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns