S&L Podcast - #272 - Best Cats and Dogs of SciFi

We congratulate Brandon Sanderson and the World Fantasy Award winners and try to calibrate the futuristic violence for you. The fancy suits calibrate themselves.

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WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?    
Tom: Gumption - Woodchuck Cider
Veronica: Bulleit Rye
    
QUICK BURNS
    
ladymurmur: The complete Garrett P.I. series is finally available on Kindle (and hopefully all other ebook platforms)! Red Iron Nights, #6 of 14 in the Garrett, P.I. series by Glen Cook is now available, after a very looooooong wait.
    
terpkristin: tor.com has the World Fantasy Award winners listed for 2016. In addition to the normal awards, Andrzej Sapkowski and David G. Hartwell were given Lifetime Achievement awards. The Best Novel winner, The Chimes, has me intrigued."  
    
Trike: TV Tropes comes through again with their Grand Unified Timeline. It's the exact thing I was wishing for in the earlier post. 
    
Aaron: Tor posted a new short story answering the question asked by innumerable readers of the novel All the Birds in the Sky: what happened to Patricia’s cat? 
    
Tomp: Brandon Sanderson has a movie deal for his whole Cosmere.
    
    
BARE YOUR SWORD
    
Best Cats in SFF?
    
Best Dogs in SFF?
    
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION    
    
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong
Patreon book briefing
    
By the way, Tom had the vote totals wrong on the last patreon poll, but this book still would have won.    

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