The Night Spice Book Review https://nightspicepodcast.com oheller25@gmail.com Oscar Heller Sun, 10 Apr 2022 01:05:36 +0000 Night Spice no oheller25@gmail.com Oscar Heller episodic Science fiction is a genre of high highs and low lows. Join Neal and Oscar as they sift through awards lists looking for gold. If you're looking for something new to read, or just like deep dives into criticism, then Night Spice is for you. https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 To Your Scattered Bodies Go // Philip José Farmer Night Spice Sun, 10 Apr 2022 01:05:36 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/to-your-scattered-bodies-go-philip-jose-farmer/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=246 To the Night Spice podcast go, as we explore the Riverworld of the Ethicals.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review To the Night Spice podcast go, as we explore the Riverworld of the Ethicals.

]]> no 00:43:14 4 5 To Your Scattered Bodies Go // Philip José Farmer full To Your Scattered Bodies Go // Philip José Farmer Candide // Voltaire Night Spice Sun, 27 Mar 2022 14:59:14 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/candide-voltaire/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=241 That's right - it's time for the best of all possible podcasts!

]]> The Night Spice Book Review That's right - it's time for the best of all possible podcasts!

]]> no 00:32:48 4 4 Candide // Voltaire full Candide // Voltaire The City We Became // N.K. Jemisin Night Spice Tue, 08 Mar 2022 01:11:39 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/the-city-we-became-n-k-jemisin/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=237 Help Oscar and Neal explore The City We Became!

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]]> no 00:31:10 4 3 The City We Became // N.K. Jemisin full The City We Became // N.K. Jemisin All Men Are Mortal // Simone de Beauvoir Night Spice Sun, 06 Feb 2022 13:52:25 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/all-men-are-mortal-simone-de-beauvoir/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=227 Come on, you apes, you wanna live forever?

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]]> no 00:33:45 4 2 All Men Are Mortal // Simone de Beauvoir full All Men Are Mortal // Simone de Beauvoir Dune // Frank Herbert Night Spice Tue, 28 Dec 2021 16:02:44 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/dune-frank-herbert/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=222 He who controls the Night Spice controls the universe.

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]]> no 00:48:34 4 1 Dune // Frank Herbert full Dune // Frank Herbert Regeneration // Pat Barker Night Spice Mon, 13 Dec 2021 16:51:54 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/regeneration-pat-barker/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=218 Join us as we seek treatment for our debilitating podcast neuroses!

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]]> no 00:26:41 3 8 Regeneration // Pat Barker full Regeneration // Pat Barker I, Claudius // Robert Graves Night Spice Fri, 19 Nov 2021 21:12:06 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/i-claudius-robert-graves/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=213 Help Neal and Oscar poison their way to immortal divinity!

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]]> no 00:27:02 3 7 I, Claudius // Robert Graves full I, Claudius // Robert Graves Never Let Me Go // Kazuo Ishiguro Night Spice Sun, 31 Oct 2021 18:13:30 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/never-let-me-go-kazuo-ishiguro/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=206 Let he among us who has not harvested meticulously raised cloned organs cast the first stone.

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]]> no 00:30:20 3 6 Never Let Me Go // Kazuo Ishiguro full Never Let Me Go // Kazuo Ishiguro A Farewell To Arms // Ernest Hemingway Night Spice Mon, 11 Oct 2021 01:30:29 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/a-farewell-to-arms-ernest-hemingway/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=200 Night Spice breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Night Spice breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.

]]> no 00:41:41 3 5 A Farewell To Arms // Ernest Hemingway full A Farewell To Arms // Ernest Hemingway The Moon and Sixpence // W. Somerset Maugham Night Spice Sun, 26 Sep 2021 23:31:38 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/the-moon-and-sixpence-w-somerset-maugham/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=196 Join Oscar and Neal as each sacrifices the other in pursuit of artistic perfection.

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]]> no 00:44:44 3 4 The Moon and Sixpence // W. Somerset Maugham full The Moon and Sixpence // W. Somerset Maugham The Duke & I // Julia Quinn Night Spice Mon, 13 Sep 2021 01:30:02 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/the-duke-i-julia-quinn/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=192 Will Neal and Oscar have to fight a thinly-premised duel over this book, or will it agree to marry one of them first?

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Will Neal and Oscar have to fight a thinly-premised duel over this book, or will it agree to marry one of them first?

]]> no 00:35:54 3 3 The Duke & I // Julia Quinn full The Duke & I // Julia Quinn Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy // John le Carré Night Spice Mon, 09 Aug 2021 01:50:53 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-john-le-carre/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=188 Two hosts, two divergent ratings. Who is the hero, and who has betrayed his empire to the Russians?

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Two hosts, two divergent ratings. Who is the hero, and who has betrayed his empire to the Russians?

]]> no 00:37:28 3 2 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy // John le Carré full Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy // John le Carré Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen Night Spice Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:16:02 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/pride-and-prejudice-jane-austen/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=184 Is Mrs. Bennet literature's greatest villain? Is Mr. Bingley just doing his best? Who knows?

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Is Mrs. Bennet literature's greatest villain? Is Mr. Bingley just doing his best? Who knows?

]]> no 00:38:20 3 1 Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen full Pride and Prejudice // Jane Austen Special Episode: The Grand Review Night Spice Sun, 11 Jul 2021 22:27:26 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/special-episode-the-grand-review/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=178 After two seasons, Oscar and Neal go over their 24 review scores and make sure everything lines up.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review After two seasons, Oscar and Neal go over their 24 review scores and make sure everything lines up.

]]> no 00:33:52 Special Episode: The Grand Review full Special Episode: The Grand Review Lovecraft Country // Matt Ruff Night Spice Sun, 27 Jun 2021 21:00:15 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/lovecraft-country-matt-ruff/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=174 Dust off your natural philosophy degrees and join us in spooky alternate history 1954.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Dust off your natural philosophy degrees and join us in spooky alternate history 1954.

]]> no 00:47:18 2 12 Lovecraft Country // Matt Ruff full Lovecraft Country // Matt Ruff Cosmonaut Keep // Ken MacLeod Night Spice Sun, 13 Jun 2021 13:23:29 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/cosmonaut-keep-ken-macleod/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=168 Let Oscar and Neal initiate you into the family secret. It's something to do with...squid research?

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Let Oscar and Neal initiate you into the family secret. It's something to do with...squid research?

]]> no 00:44:14 2 11 Cosmonaut Keep // Ken MacLeod full Cosmonaut Keep // Ken MacLeod Children of Time // Adrian Tchaikovsky Night Spice Sun, 30 May 2021 23:40:41 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/children-of-time-adrian-tchaikovsky/ https://nightspicepodcast.com/?post_type=episode&p=139 No spoilers, but...we hope you like spiders.

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]]> no 00:48:05 2 10 Children of Time // Adrian Tchaikovsky full Children of Time // Adrian Tchaikovsky Rendezvous With Rama // Arthur C. Clarke Night Spice Sun, 16 May 2021 22:51:40 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/rendezvous-with-rama-arthur-c-clarke/ https://nightspiceprod.wpengine.com/?post_type=episode&p=106 Rendezvous with Neal and Oscar as we rendezvous with Rendezvous With Rama.

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]]> no 00:38:25 2 9 Rendezvous With Rama // Arthur C. Clarke full Rendezvous With Rama // Arthur C. Clarke The Three-Body Problem // Cixin Liu Night Spice Sun, 02 May 2021 14:35:00 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/the-three-body-problem-cixin-liu/ Do Oscar and Neal solve the Three-Body Problem, or do we have to cook ourselves alive in a pot of soup?

That’s right: it’s a weird book.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Do Oscar and Neal solve the Three-Body Problem, or do we have to cook ourselves alive in a pot of soup?

That’s right: it’s a weird book.

]]> no 01:09:49 2 8 The Three-Body Problem // Cixin Liu full The Three-Body Problem // Cixin Liu Lord of Light // Roger Zelazny Night Spice Sun, 18 Apr 2021 19:48:40 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/lord-of-light-roger-zelazny/ Oscar and Neal never claimed to be gods. But then, we never claimed not to be...

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]]> no 00:55:17 2 7 Lord of Light // Roger Zelazny full Lord of Light // Roger Zelazny The Fall of Hyperion // Dan Simmons Night Spice Sun, 04 Apr 2021 20:52:00 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/the-fall-of-hyperion-dan-simmons/ The Time Tombs have opened. Join Oscar and Neal as we embrace The Void Which Binds.

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]]> no 01:09:20 2 6 The Fall of Hyperion // Dan Simmons full The Fall of Hyperion // Dan Simmons Hyperion // Dan Simmons Night Spice Sun, 21 Mar 2021 15:07:01 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/hyperion-dan-simmons-2/ Neal and Oscar make their own pilgrimage to the Time Tombs in search of answers.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Neal and Oscar make their own pilgrimage to the Time Tombs in search of answers.

]]> no 01:15:11 2 5 Hyperion // Dan Simmons full Hyperion // Dan Simmons A Memory Called Empire // Arkady Martine Night Spice Sun, 07 Mar 2021 18:25:26 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/a-memory-called-empire-arkady-martine-2/ Neal and Oscar make the best of their diplomatic posting to the Teixcalaanli Empire.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Neal and Oscar make the best of their diplomatic posting to the Teixcalaanli Empire.

]]> no 01:03:28 2 4 A Memory Called Empire // Arkady Martine full A Memory Called Empire // Arkady Martine All the Birds in the Sky // Charlie Jane Anders Night Spice Sun, 21 Feb 2021 22:43:00 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/all-the-birds-in-the-sky-charlie-jane-anders-2/ Oscar and Neal navigate the emotional nightmare of being a millennial witch and inventor, respectively.

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]]> no 00:51:50 2 3 All the Birds in the Sky // Charlie Jane Anders full All the Birds in the Sky // Charlie Jane Anders Ancillary Justice // Ann Leckie Night Spice Sun, 07 Feb 2021 23:43:22 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/ancillary-justice-ann-leckie/ Jam your consciousness into our dead bodies as we review Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice.

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]]> no 00:52:51 2 2 Ancillary Justice // Ann Leckie full Ancillary Justice // Ann Leckie Trail of Lightning // Rebecca Roanhorse Night Spice Sun, 24 Jan 2021 15:46:14 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/trail-of-lightning-rebecca-roanhorse/ Night Spice returns for season 2!

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]]> no 00:33:06 2 1 Trail of Lightning // Rebecca Roanhorse full Trail of Lightning // Rebecca Roanhorse The Snow Queen // Joan D. Vinge Night Spice Sun, 27 Dec 2020 21:44:00 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/the-snow-queen-joan-d-vinge/ Neal and Oscar travel through the Black Gate to review Joan D. Vinge’s novel The Snow Queen.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Neal and Oscar travel through the Black Gate to review Joan D. Vinge’s novel The Snow Queen.

]]> no 00:58:13 1 12 The Snow Queen // Joan D. Vinge full The Snow Queen // Joan D. Vinge Piranesi // Susanna Clarke Night Spice Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:16:00 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/piranesi-susanna-clarke/ While Oscar and Neal guide you through Susanna Clarke’s labyrinth, remember: the beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review While Oscar and Neal guide you through Susanna Clarke’s labyrinth, remember: the beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.

]]> no 00:41:02 1 11 Piranesi // Susanna Clarke full Piranesi // Susanna Clarke The Left Hand of Darkness // Ursula K. Le Guin Night Spice Sun, 29 Nov 2020 22:21:26 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/the-left-hand-of-darkness-ursula-k-le-guin/ Night Spice lands on the forbidding world of Winter to explore its strange ways.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Night Spice lands on the forbidding world of Winter to explore its strange ways.

]]> no 00:56:51 1 10 The Left Hand of Darkness // Ursula K. Le Guin full The Left Hand of Darkness // Ursula K. Le Guin Slaughterhouse-Five // Kurt Vonnegut Night Spice Sun, 15 Nov 2020 16:07:00 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/slaughterhouse-five-kurt-vonnegut/ Night Spice travels in time to 1969 to experience Kurt Vonnegut’s classic anti-war novel. Then we travel back to 2020 to review it, thirteen years after the author’s death. So it goes.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Night Spice travels in time to 1969 to experience Kurt Vonnegut’s classic anti-war novel. Then we travel back to 2020 to review it, thirteen years after the author’s death. So it goes.

]]> no 00:33:44 1 9 Slaughterhouse-Five // Kurt Vonnegut full Slaughterhouse-Five // Kurt Vonnegut The Curse of Chalion // Lois McMaster Bujold Night Spice Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:09:57 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/the-curse-of-chalion-lois-mcmaster-bujold/ Neal and Oscar unravel the intrigues and mysteries of The Curse of Chalion.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Neal and Oscar unravel the intrigues and mysteries of The Curse of Chalion.

]]> no 01:00:36 1 8 The Curse of Chalion // Lois McMaster Bujold full The Curse of Chalion // Lois McMaster Bujold Babel-17 // Samuel R. Delany Night Spice Mon, 19 Oct 2020 01:24:07 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/babel-17-samuel-r-delany/ We love talking about language, and so does Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review We love talking about language, and so does Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17.

]]> no 00:47:08 1 7 Babel-17 // Samuel R. Delany full Babel-17 // Samuel R. Delany Starplex // Robert Sawyer Night Spice Sun, 04 Oct 2020 23:06:07 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/starplex-robert-sawyer/ Night Spice sets its sights on Robert Sawyer's sprawling space opera Starplex.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Night Spice sets its sights on Robert Sawyer's sprawling space opera Starplex.

]]> no 00:42:00 1 6 Starplex // Robert Sawyer full Starplex // Robert Sawyer More Than Human // Theodore Sturgeon Night Spice Sun, 20 Sep 2020 15:17:45 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/more-than-human-theodore-sturgeon-2/ Neal and Oscar examine Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human, one of the first sci-fi books to be popularly recognized for literary merit. Spoilers: it’s weird.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Neal and Oscar examine Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human, one of the first sci-fi books to be popularly recognized for literary merit. Spoilers: it’s weird.

]]> no 00:51:51 1 5 More Than Human // Theodore Sturgeon full More Than Human // Theodore Sturgeon Redshirts // John Scalzi Night Spice Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:03:03 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/redshirts-john-scalzi-2/ Join the intrepid crew of the Night Spice Book Review for a review of Redshirts by John Scalzi.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Join the intrepid crew of the Night Spice Book Review for a review of Redshirts by John Scalzi.

]]> no 00:59:03 1 4 Redshirts // John Scalzi full Redshirts // John Scalzi The Lathe of Heaven // Ursula K. Le Guin Night Spice Sun, 23 Aug 2020 12:54:00 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/the-lathe-of-heaven-ursula-k-le-guin-2/ Neal and Oscar tackle The Lathe of Heaven, a mind-bending story of a man whose dreams change reality so completely that nobody else even notices.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Neal and Oscar tackle The Lathe of Heaven, a mind-bending story of a man whose dreams change reality so completely that nobody else even notices.

]]> no 00:46:10 1 3 The Lathe of Heaven // Ursula K. Le Guin full The Lathe of Heaven // Ursula K. Le Guin The Calculating Stars // Mary Robinette Kowal Night Spice Sun, 09 Aug 2020 22:26:05 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/the-calculating-stars-mary-robinette-kowal-2/ Neal and Oscar review Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Neal and Oscar review Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars.

]]> no 00:45:15 1 2 The Calculating Stars // Mary Robinette Kowal full The Calculating Stars // Mary Robinette Kowal 2312 // Kim Stanley Robinson Night Spice Mon, 27 Jul 2020 01:44:12 +0000 https://nightspicepodcast.com/episode/2312-kim-stanley-robinson/ Night Spice kicks off with Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312.

]]> The Night Spice Book Review Night Spice kicks off with Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312.

]]> no 00:50:48 1 1 2312 // Kim Stanley Robinson full 2312 // Kim Stanley Robinson