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This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.

This is episode 39, and we are recording on

Monday, July 25th. I'm Jen Northington from Book Riot and our special guest today is Thea James

from the Book Smugglers and we are going to be answering your science fiction and fantasy questions.

Welcome, Thea. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. It's great to have you. How is, how is your day? You got caught in the

storm. There's a torrential downpour that I did get caught in. But, you know, that's okay.

It's kind of ominous and apocalyptic. So that's into like science fiction fantasy talk, right?

Totally. Sets the scene perfectly. So if you're just tuning into the show for the

first time, I will give you a little background on how the show works. This is a recommendation

show. So what happens is you send us your questions and we answer them. Sometimes we have

special guests like thea. Sometimes it's just me and Amanda Nelson, the managing editor of Book Riot.

Sometimes it's Amanda and a special guest. It changes up. You never know what's going to happen. The way you can send us questions, if you have any, is you can leave them in the form at the end of every post for the podcast on bookriot.com. There's a form there in the show notes. You can email them to us at get booked at bookriot.com. You can tweet them to us, all kinds of options. And yeah, Thia, I asked her on

specifically because the book smugglers does such a good job covering genre. And we had so many super

hyper specific genre questions that I was like, need any backup on this one these are some good

questions they're tough I actually had to think about a lot of them like yeah dig back into the

archives so yes yes yes job same so Amanda's on vacation so she's she's like she's a she's escaping

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