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36. Close-up: The Mostly Harmless Book Club

36. Close-up: The Mostly Harmless Book Club

FromThe Book Club Review


36. Close-up: The Mostly Harmless Book Club

FromThe Book Club Review

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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Feb 24, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

From Game of Thrones to Watership Down via Haruki Marukami, Margaret Atwood, Frank Herbert and everything in-between, Mostly Harmless are a thriving book club devoted to sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comics. We interviewed founders Derek and Barbara about the hits and misses over the years, and get a great set of expert recommendations for die-hard enthusiasts, and also those thinking about trying a genre novel.  •  The Mostly Harmless Book Club meet monthly, find details here. • Books mentioned in this episode were: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher, Dune by Frank Herbert, the novels of George R. R. Martin, Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights by Ryu Mitsuse, Annihilator by Grant Morrison, Ronin by Frank Miller, The Female Man by Joanna Russ, The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie, The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemison, Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke.
Released:
Feb 24, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Kate and Laura on the books that get you talking. Every episode we sit down to chat about the books read most recently by our book clubs. What did we make of them? Did they spark debate? And whether we loved them or loathed them, we always try to answer the big question: were they great book club books?