That Author Is Poison | Episode 21

Fly on the Wallin with Amber and Ben

The Sci-Fi Sigh Podcast

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5 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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If I were you, I'd take precaution.... This week we read Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston. This book has everything—climate change, blood magic, spirit zombies, pirates, and queer love. We stan all 500 pages of this epic fantasy. We also discuss what makes epic fantasy “epic.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Side by Side, a podcast about black science fiction fantasy and staying
0:12.6	on the same page in this marriage.
0:15.4	I'm one of your incredible co-hosts Amber Wallet and who you is.
0:21.0	And that's Ben Wallet.
0:22.0	You should be like, my name is Ben, yeah.
0:25.8	And I like fantasy, yeah.
0:27.2	Anyway, welcome to episode 21, I'll put you to that chair later, Ben.
0:31.8	My name is Amber.
0:32.8	What?
0:33.8	And I like fantasy.
0:34.8	Yeah.
0:35.8	Especially when it's written by black authors.
0:36.8	Why?
0:37.8	And today we read mess with your poise.
0:38.8	It's like a school yard thing.
0:40.5	Like, you know, when you go to school with other children and you play a recess, you know
0:44.6	what that, that's the flag, right?
0:46.7	Wait, is this different than the yard?
0:49.1	Yes, it is.
0:50.1	Look at you.
0:51.1	Look at you.
0:52.1	You can be supportive.
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