About this episode
Reviewer and historian Liz Bourke joins to discuss religion, historical overlaps, and examinations of gender in Paladin of Souls and fantasy more generally.
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Guest: Liz Bourke
Title: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
Host:Jake Casella Brookins
Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
Artwork by Rob Patterson
Opening poem by Bhart?hari, translated by John Brough
References:
Blood Tide by Sophie Burnham
Jen Lyons' Green and Deadly Things
Hiron Ennes’ The Works of Vermin
China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station
Bret Devereaux’s series on military-historical realism in Tolkien; see for instance “The Siege of Gondor Part IV”
McMaster’s Curse of Chalion, Penric & Desdemona series, Vorkosigan series
Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love
Bioware's Dragon Age games
Cult of Asclepius
Tolkien's idea of the “eucatastrophe”
M. Night Shyamalan
Mythopoeia
Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories
Liz's bluesky & website
