David and Perry talk about the books they've been reading lately, ranging in length from novellas to a nine-volume, almost million-word opus written entirely in the form of letters. And a rather damp theme emerges...

  • World SF Convention and Hugos (04:24)
  • Clarissa Harlowe by Samuel Richardson (05:35)
  • The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson (10:48)
  • The Glass Hotel by Emily St.John Mandel (07:17)
  • Shadow in the Empire of Light by Jane Routley (05:54)
  • The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (00:01)
  • The Greenwood Duology by Emily Tesh (07:35)
    • Silver in the Wood (01:31)
    • Drowned Country (04:15)
  • The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison (25:16)
    • Discussion with Lucy Sussex (20:36)
  • Windup (00:55)

"Not Waving but Drowning" is the title of a poem by Stevie Smith, written in 1972.

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