Andi and Lise discuss and deeply appreciate multiple award-winning spec fic writer Nicola Griffith's novel Spear (current Nebula finalist!)—a queer Arthurian story that will bring you right into the era from a perspective you didn't know you absolutely needed. If, like them, you grew up on Arthurian/Camelot stories, Spear is like coming home to the people you wanted and needed to see in those tales.

Nicola Griffith's website HERE.

Info about Spear HERE.

List of this year's Nebula finalists HERE.

Shout-outs: Lise started watching the Netflix series Lockwood and Co., about teen ghosthunters/ghost battlers in a Britain overrun by spirits that can kill with a touch. Adapted from the first two books in the Lockwood and Co. series by Jonathan Stroud. Andi shouts-out the ol' skool show Forensic Files which she's watching on Hulu. The episodes are about 22 minutes long without commercials, and she's ended up learning a lot and making it a family affair.

We're still hanging in there on Twitter: @LGOPodcast, @andimarquette, @LiseMacTague.

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Andi and Lise jumped into the current zeitgeist and watched the first episode of the first season of The Last of Us on HBO Max, the TV series adapted from the video game of the same name (by Naughty Dog and Sony Interactive Entertainment, released in 2013). The storyline involves a post-apocalyptic U.S. in which survivors live in totalitarian walled cities while a fungus-ravaged world (Cordyceps, in case you wondered which fungus) outside the walls infects humans, who prey on the non-infected. Joel (Pedro Pascal), a survivor who engages in black market smuggling in Boston, is tasked with taking teenager Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across the U.S. Gripping, intense, brutal. But the story-telling is amazing. So…one and done? One and fun? Or One and One More? Find out!

The Last of Us trailer HERE.

Find it on HBO Max. Official website HERE.

Shout-outs: Lise is trying to avoid Twitter, which is an even worse hellscape now, so she put an app to play Sudoku on her phone, which provides a nice respite during the day and doesn't generate anxiety. Andi is finding fluffy niceness in the cozy mystery series on BritBox, Shakespeare and Hathaway, which follows a couple of mis-matched private investigators in Stratford-upon-Avon. More info HERE; watch on Acorn (DVD), BritBox, and Amazon Prime (S1).

Even on the Twitter hellscape, find us @LGOpodcast, @andimarquette, and @LiseMactague. Also find Andi and Lise on Instagram and Facebook, same handles.

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Lise is laid up this week and can't get the latest episode edited and uploaded. While she recovers, please enjoy this conversation with Karin Kallmaker.