Fantasy Novel Recommendations w/ Author Nicola Griffith + Moon Knight Ep 3 & Comic News

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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On this episode of X-Ray Vision, Jason Concepcion and Rosie Knight dive into the world of Fantasy and Science Fiction! First in Previously On (3:17), Jason and Rosie discuss some comics news, including a new Avengers series, a possible new comics origin for Thor in Avengers 1,000,000 BC, Marvel’s A.X.E.: Judgment Day, and DC’s upcoming Death of Justice League and Dark Crisis; they also discuss the title casting in Disney+’s recently announced Percy Jackson series, the MCU’s Ironheart series gaining its directors, and recap episode three of the Disney+ limited series Moon Knight. In the Airlock (53:19), they discuss JK Rowling’s transphobia and why they won’t be covering the latest Fantastic Beasts movie before diving deep (deeeep) into their book bag to offer recommendations for amazing Fantasy and Sci-Fi that just so happens to be written by marginalized, underrepresented, and queer authors that centers marginalized characters. Then, in the Hive Mind (1:15:06), Jason and Rosie are joined by Nicola Griffith, award winning author of Ammonite, Hild, the upcoming Spear, and more, to discuss her process as a writer, conducting research on Arthurian England, and writing with, and about, disabilities. Finally, in Nerd Out (1:48:43) a listener pitches us on The Illuminatus! Trilogy. Tune in every Friday and don’t forget to Hulk Smash the Follow button! Nerd Out Submission Instructions! Send a short pitch and 2-3 minute voice memo recording to xray@crooked.com that answers the following questions: 1) How did you get into/discover your ‘Nerd Out?’ (2) Why should we get into it too? (3) What’s coming soon in this world that we can look forward to or where can we find it? Follow Jason: twitter.com/netw3rk Follow Crooked: twitter.com/crookedmedia PLUGS: Rosie’s IG, website, author archive, & Letterboxd. Spear by Nicola Griffith + Nicola’s website is worth checking out too! The Listener’s Guide for all things X-Ray Vision! Harry Potter and The Problematic Author by Maia Kobabe The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Hild by Nicola Griffith Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden Spear by Nicola Griffith (out on April 19th) Pet by Akwaeke Emezi The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton (out on May 3) Recommendations from our guest & award winning author Nicola Griffith: Sorrowland (2021) by Rivers Solomon The Long Way To a Small Angry Planet (2015) by Becky Chambers A Companion to Arthurian Literature (2009) Edited by Helen Fulton A Spindle Splintered (2021) by Alix E. Harrow

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0:00.0	Warning, this podcast contains spoilers for the limited series Moon Night on Disney Plus,
0:06.2	also The Novel Hills, some light spoilers, by Nicola Griffith, and a number of other
0:12.2	fantasy novels. So beware!
0:31.2	Hello! My name is Jason Cessio and welcome to X-ray Vision, the Crooked podcast where we dive deep into your favorite
0:37.7	shows, movies, comics, and pop culture in today's episode, and previously on lots of comic book news,
0:43.4	lead casting announcement in the upcoming Percy Jackson series on Disney Plus, plus the MCU's Iron
0:50.6	Heart series has named its directors, and we will do a recap of episode three of Moon Night in the
0:57.2	airlock. We're going to be talking about fantasy and sci-fi authors, especially by queer and marginalized
1:04.4	authors, and then for the hivebind, we're going to be talking to award-winning author of many stories,
1:11.4	including Ammonite, including So Lucky, and one of Rosie and my favorites, Hild, Nicola Griffith,
1:20.0	and in our nerd-out, a listener will pitch us on the Illuminatus trilogy, joining me today to talk
1:26.6	about all of that, and more is the great, the powerful, the Godzilla comic book creating
1:35.5	various theory pieces writing, the great content creating Rosie Night. Rosie, how are you?
1:43.1	It's me, I'm okay, I was just kidding. It's content minds. I've just kept the content
1:47.8	creating minds one day to be here. The minds are endless and they never stop and you have to
1:54.6	just keep mining the same stuff. It's like being in Stadu is just as too many levels, just keep going
2:00.3	down. Always something else to mine. Okay, let's get into the news. Marvel Comics announced recently
2:07.8	at the Fan Expo in Philadelphia, a new title, All Out Avengers. This seems like it's going to be
2:13.4	kind of in the vein of non-stop Spider-Man created by the creative team All Out Avengers is
2:21.0	of Greg Land, who the artist Greg Land, who if you've listened to us and you know of Greg Land,
2:29.5	can be divisive. And the novelist, Derek Landy, this apparently is going to be a
2:38.8	kind of like it seems, just reading, parsing the press release T-Leaves, going to be something of
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