My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantastic | Episode 23

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

The Sci-Fi Sigh Podcast

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5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We read "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas. The book was recently awarded a World Fantasy Award for 2020. Amber and Ben come to terms with imagination gaps, toxic twitter feeds, and “slash fiction.” For once Ben knows more about social media than Amber.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci, a podcast about black science fiction, fantasy, and staying
0:08.9	on the same page in this wonderful, pleasurable, stupe-ified, but you can't even do a beautiful
0:17.6	mind relationship.
0:19.1	I'm one of your co-hosts Amber Wolland.
0:21.6	And I'm Ben.
0:22.6	Welcome to episode 23 of the Sci-Fi Sci Today.
0:24.6	We have read a life-changing book, I'm not even being dramatic, I am dramatic, but
0:29.6	this is for real.
0:30.8	A life-changing book called The Dark Fantastic, written by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, before
0:36.9	we get into the book, Ben has to make a public apology to me about last week's episode,
0:43.1	because I think I was right about Captain Marvel, even though you dragged me.
0:47.2	Captain Marvel is both a DC and Marvel character, so I was wrong.
0:52.6	I have no idea what to say.
0:54.1	I was wrong.
0:56.1	One more time.
0:57.1	Three words that will save your marriage.
0:58.7	I was wrong.
1:00.4	We love to see it.
1:01.4	All right.
1:02.4	Well, anyway, we are going to get into this new book The Dark Fantastic, which really
1:07.2	focuses on something called The Imagination Gap, which I was not aware of before I read
1:12.0	this book.
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