Wizards Vs. Lesbians

The anglophilia arc continues! This one's on a boat. A silly gay murder mystery featuring a parrot and a suitcase of porn which is better than it needs to be.

Full disclosure: the author is Alexis' former housemate.  That being said, even those of us who do not have a personal stake think you should read this book if you have an interest in fairy tales, ex…

We were so delighted with The Outside that we decided to cover its sequels!  We probably shouldn't have.

It's a novella which feels like a very long short story, and we struggled to get a full episode out of it.  What happens when you make your hardboiled noir detective a magical lesbian?  Anything?

We really enjoyed this one - it's about being autistic and trying to follow the rules when you're an inveterate anti-authoritarian, and it's also about cyborgs and spaceships and tentacle monsters an…

We are glad to live in a world where a movie as weird as this can win Best Picture, and we have a lot to say about it.  Our guest for this episode is Soyi Kim, doctor of comparative literature and ar…

Swords! Sorcery! Nipponese Steel! I mean Naiponese Steel! Come see the medieval Japan that 1980s otaku dreamed of. 

It's Frankenstein!  And just like in the original, the real monster is the doctor, who is a lesbian.  This is the third in our series on highly ideological short novels, and this one involves a Creat…

In Part 2 of our series on extremely ideological short novels we arrive at Sappho's Bar and Grill, holdover from an imagined heyday of lesbian culture where everyone was rough and tough and manly and…

A Hallmark Christmas movie of a book, except it's Halloween and there are lesbians.  This is a return to the world of chick lit and also the first in a trilogy of episodes about works which are extre…

What if vampires drank ink and ideas instead of blood?  And what if there was an incredibly dumb book about it?

We've made it through two years of this!  Due to a series of circumstances we kind of had to throw this episode together at the last minute, but we had fun, and that's what matters.

What if British colonizers in early 20th century Singapore were literal vampires?  And what if they wanted to have sex with you?  And what does it say that this bit of ebook erotica is one of the str…

An extra-long episode covering the penultimate installment of the Ninth House series (assuming Homestuck denouement elongation syndrome doesn't strike.  Pray it away.)  You guys already know what thi…

Well, we made it to 50 episodes, and as promised we will try to figure out what Be-Papas thought they were doing. 

It's a retro episode!  (We will eventually make it through Nicola Griffith's entire catalog.)  This is a book about celebrity, hereditary wealth, toxic relationships and the science of water reclamat…