A Meal of Thorns 34 – BURNING BRIGHT with Ursula Whitcher
Update: 2025-10-06
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- Guest: Ursula Whitcher
- Title: Burning Bright by Melissa Scott
- Host: Jake Casella Brookins
- Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
- Artwork by Rob Patterson
- Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough
- Transcribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM Thompson
References:
- North Continent Ribbon
- Indra Das’s The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar
- Fonda Lee's Green Bone books & game thereof w/ James Mendez Hodes
- Bruce Coville's Aliens Ate My Homework & Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
- Thomas Ha's Uncertain Sons
- Scott’s Trouble And Her Friends & Astreiant series, most recently Point of Hearts
- C.S. Lewis's Perelandra
- Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance novels
- Don Daglow’s Neverwinter Nights
- Commedia dell'arte
- The Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise
- LAN parties
- C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner books
- Arkardy Martine's Teixcalaan books
- Iain M. Banks' Player of Games
- Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
- Cameron Reed's Fortunate Fall
- Iain Softley’s Hackers
- William Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy
- Charlie Jane Anders
- Bruce Sterling
- Michael Swanwick's Stations of the Tide
- Ursula's website & Bluesky
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