Appendix N Book Club

Episodes

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  Tanith Lee's "The Birthgrave" 28.09.2026 1h 4m

  Our Patron Book Club hosts a discussion about Tanith Lee's "The Birthgrave"!
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  Christopher Buehlman's "The Blacktongue Thief" 14.09.2026 55m

  Our Patron Book Club hosts a discussion about Christopher Buehlman's "The Blacktongue Thief"!
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  Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi" 31.08.2026 56m

  Our Patron Book Club hosts a discussion about Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi"!
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  William Goldman's "The Princess Bride" 13.07.2026 56m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss William Goldman's "The Princess Bride", straight-forward language, Buttercup's baby, comparisons to the film, bitching about trees, DCC 0-level funnels, twists on resurrections, using character backstories, the QuestWorlds RPG, love between the most attractive people in an area, dithering players, and much more!
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  A. Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss" 08.06.2026 58m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss A. Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss", reading a book for the first time that has been owned for decades, classical headgear, the differences and similarities between A. Merritt and H. Rider Haggard, science-fantasy, losing track of characters, non-villainous snakes, protagonists surrounded by dangerous characters, spider-people, playing with the infrared spectrum, gating in gods from other planes, the Princess Bride, and much more!
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  Roger Zelazny's Dilvish, the Damned 03.05.2026 1h 1m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Roger Zelazny’s “Dilvish, the Damned”, military words, short stories from the 60s-80s, Jack of Shadows and the Amber books, how easy it is to lose invisible swords, tagging along like a squire to a knight, wizards in fish-shirts, half-elves in literature, sorcery requiring the assumption of an artificially-constructed personality, escaping death traps, breaking locks, assassins climbing mountains of ice, and more!
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  China Miéville's "Perdido Street Station" 27.04.2026 1h 4m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss China Miéville's "Perdido Street Station", dreamlike states, the Wizard of Oz, being held at arms' length, shapeless books, dropping the true identity of a serial killer, customizing characters, coming out of deep freeze, DMs using PC ideas, the Godfather, illustrations of moments from the novel, baroque and florid language, and much more!
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  Lloyd Alexander's "The Black Cauldron" 02.02.2026 1h

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Lloyd Alexander's "The Black Cauldron", the case of Joseph's unreturned hardback, the unsuccessful animated adaptation, the advantage of nostalgia, complaining about invisibility, the butchering of the Welsh language, annoying anatogonists, a horse's suicide, Thor's hammer, bringing relatively low-level characters into a big epic continent-spanning war, contacting the Alexander estate, and much more!
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  Karl Edward Wagner's "Dark Crusade" 19.01.2026 59m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Karl Edward Wagner's "Dark Crusade", French military lingo, eruptions of chaos and evil, trying to fight the entire world, editorial meddling, fantasy drug use, domain-building, using war game rules for larger battles, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, the grandeur of Wagner's stories, bullywugs, the Chronicles of the Kencyrath, and much more!
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  Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light" 03.11.2025 1h

  Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light" by Jeff Goad, Ngo Vinh-Hoi, and special guests
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  C.J. Cherryh's "Gate of Ivrel" 22.09.2025 58m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss C.J. Cherryh's "Gate of Ivrel", healing salves, claustrophobic third-person narratives, planetary-scale, parallels to Elric and Birthgrave, focusing on interiority over physical descriptions, precise and consistent language choices, endings that work, the Glorantha setting in Runequest, moving campaigns to different settings, hunger as a riveting threat, Night of the Leepus, and much more!
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  H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" 08.09.2025 1h 4m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", independent presses, Victorian architecture, one-thing-after-another type of books, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom books, Edgar Allan Poe horror stories, graphic novel adapatations, recurring dreams and locations, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, weird townsfolk, barrel monsters, the Hexcrawl of Unknown Kadath, Gene Wolf and the Book of the New Sun, and much more!
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  Howard Andrew Jones's "The Desert of Souls" 25.08.2025 56m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Howard Andrew Jones's "The Desert of Souls", Hannibal from Carthage, first-person narratives, medieval Baghdad, Harold Lamb, the outsider vs the insider as the protagonist, making prayers at the proper times, fire magic, Oriental Adventures, historically-grounded fantasy, using perspective to spice up situations, Sign of the Labrys, and much more!
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  Jack Vance's "Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden" 09.06.2025 1h 1m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Jack Vance's "Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden", incorrect uses of words or advanced neologisms, having less reading time in our adult lives, feeling like anything can happen, the Brothers Grimm, worlds where horrific things happen, toxic masculinity, Tolkien's influence, creating a sense of peril in combat, attacking the character sheet, the Dying Earth setting, proto-Arthurian stories, and much more!
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  L. Sprague de Camp's "The Fallible Fiend" 26.05.2025 54m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss L. Sprague de Camp's "The Fallible Fiend", futtering spouses, the maps in front of fantasy novels, fleshed-out characters, missile weapons, Dave Arneson's rules, picking spells other than Fireball, flavorful book titles, historical fiction with magic, older styles of writing, fantasy novels as reflections of their time, and much more!
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  Gretchen Felker-Martin's "Manhunt" 18.03.2025 58m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Gretchen Felker-Martin's "Manhunt", visceral horror-thrillers, section transitions, interchangeable characters, physical descriptions of characters, depictions of trans genitalia, sexualizing a wide varieties of body types, TERFs and anti-vaxxers, replacing PCs with NPCs, the Broo in Runequest, overland exploration in Forbidden Lands, parental access restrictions in libraries, and much more!
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  Katherine Kurtz's "Deryni Rising" with our Patron Book Club 18.02.2025 58m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Katherine Kurtz's "Deryni Rising", sarcophagi, achieving literary liftoff, the Brandon-to-Demos scale, fantasy worlds with real-life historical cultures, female fantasy authors writing under their own names, scattered hidden magical races, Empire of the Petal Throne, AD&D psionics, counterspells, adventure hooks to clear a character's name, Dragon Magazine and White Dwarf Magazine on archive.org, and much more!
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  James Enge's "Blood of Ambrose" with our Patron Book Club 29.01.2025 57m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss James Enge's "Blood of Ambrose", obscure words from classic languages, Scooby Doo episodes, slowing down for character development, The Book of the New Sun books, magic from alchemy, flying horses, world maps, DCC spell corruption, blood that catches fire, other notable works by the author, trial and error, and much more!
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  H. Rider Haggard's "She" with our Patron Book Club 31.12.2024 58m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss H. Rider Haggard's "She", the smell of the flame, Haggard's other works, "the things dudes won't do for a hottie", the city of Cambridge, the good earthy feminine logic, being torn between two ill-fated women, the lost race genre, the tombs of an ancient civilization, quaint local customs, being unalive (instead of undead), democracies and tyrants, and much more!
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  Charles R. Saunders's "The Quest for Cush" 25.11.2024 59m

  Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Charles R. Saunders's "The Quest for Cush", the Swahili glossary, the shame of the King County Library system, fiction as gaming supplements, inversions of traditional sword and sorcery, Burroughs's Mythic Africa, the Mary Sue problem, Greeks in Egypt, a dungeon under quicksand, responsible and dilligent city guards, Imaro as a demigod,, and much more!