Lisa @ Narrated Podcast
@lisajune.bsky.social
Co-host of Narrated podcast, a podcast about audiobooks (largely, but not entirely SFF) | Science Fiction/Fantasy enthusiast | My cats are @littermates.bsky.social | Boston Area
Friends! We appeared on a Hugo Rec List! It may be the first time this happened! 🥺 (Hugo, Girl! thanked us in their acceptance speech, which my kid maintains is just like getting a Hugo) I’m so excited and should probably make an eligibility post!
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December 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Friends! We appeared on a Hugo Rec List! It may be the first time this happened! 🥺 (Hugo, Girl! thanked us in their acceptance speech, which my kid maintains is just like getting a Hugo) I’m so excited and should probably make an eligibility post!
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This looks like a solid prediction list. Your heading for the one category that only has Tchaikovsky in it made me LOL
final best novel hugo predictions, because I have to stop predicting and start reading for my own ballot ASAP 😅
(yes I am still bitter there was no U.S. release for When There Are Wolves Again, but I guess the U.S. deserves this after our many transgressions)
(yes I am still bitter there was no U.S. release for When There Are Wolves Again, but I guess the U.S. deserves this after our many transgressions)
final best novel hugo prediction
I did some predictions in previous months, but it is time for the Final Prediction!
Books I am 80% Sure About:
The Incandescent by Emily Tesh
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Hemlock & Silver by T....
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December 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This looks like a solid prediction list. Your heading for the one category that only has Tchaikovsky in it made me LOL
I received these, and now I have both the audio and physical versions of We Will Rise Again, which is great because I love it. My husband was bummed I’d already read it (“What?? It just came out like 2 weeks ago!”), but that means he picked something exactly right!
December 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I received these, and now I have both the audio and physical versions of We Will Rise Again, which is great because I love it. My husband was bummed I’d already read it (“What?? It just came out like 2 weeks ago!”), but that means he picked something exactly right!
Exhibit way further down the list than A: my Dad, born 1947, an engineer who found his passion in amusement park safety regulation. This was one of the (many) notebooks he kept to track his FreeCell games.
December 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Exhibit way further down the list than A: my Dad, born 1947, an engineer who found his passion in amusement park safety regulation. This was one of the (many) notebooks he kept to track his FreeCell games.
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Have started reading We Will Rise Again, edited by @annaleen.bsky.social, @drkarenlord.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social.
Three pieces and one forward in, I already know: this is the good shit. It feels urgent, needed, timely.
Three pieces and one forward in, I already know: this is the good shit. It feels urgent, needed, timely.
December 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Have started reading We Will Rise Again, edited by @annaleen.bsky.social, @drkarenlord.bsky.social, and @older.bsky.social.
Three pieces and one forward in, I already know: this is the good shit. It feels urgent, needed, timely.
Three pieces and one forward in, I already know: this is the good shit. It feels urgent, needed, timely.
This resonates so hard
Unburying the lede from my essay on why we all feel like numb frozen crap these days…
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December 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This resonates so hard
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As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.
GenX sucker punch indeed. As an elementary schooler I spent my daily hour of TV on the local station’s science fiction hour, which rotated between reruns of Star Trek (TOS), Battlestar Galactica (1978), and Buck Rogers. RIP, Buck.
December 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
GenX sucker punch indeed. As an elementary schooler I spent my daily hour of TV on the local station’s science fiction hour, which rotated between reruns of Star Trek (TOS), Battlestar Galactica (1978), and Buck Rogers. RIP, Buck.
Too many books to pick one. Sunward, Automatic Noodle, and The River has Roots come to mind as a start.
Also the Murderbot TV series brought me so much joy.
Also the Murderbot TV series brought me so much joy.
2025 has been a rough year. What's one piece of art that's brought you absolute joy despite everything?
December 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Too many books to pick one. Sunward, Automatic Noodle, and The River has Roots come to mind as a start.
Also the Murderbot TV series brought me so much joy.
Also the Murderbot TV series brought me so much joy.
Down in the Sea of Angels
is an absolutely gorgeously written book, with wonderful, memorable characters in all three timelines. I loved Eunice Wong’s narration.
is an absolutely gorgeously written book, with wonderful, memorable characters in all three timelines. I loved Eunice Wong’s narration.
Check out this terrific interview with Eunice Wong, the voice actor/narrator for the audiobook of Down in the Sea of Angels. So great hearing her perspective on the book, and her approach to narration.
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Interview with Eunice Wong: Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Audiobooks 2025
On narrating DOWN IN THE SEA OF ANGELS
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December 17, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Down in the Sea of Angels
is an absolutely gorgeously written book, with wonderful, memorable characters in all three timelines. I loved Eunice Wong’s narration.
is an absolutely gorgeously written book, with wonderful, memorable characters in all three timelines. I loved Eunice Wong’s narration.
True story: Warren Towers are the reason I went to a small liberal arts college. 17 year old me was so intimidated on the tour by the thought of trying to find friends in there that every college I applied to had fewer students than that dorm.
How do you take a big, energy-devouring college dorm and slash its climate emissions? Boston University's renovation of Warren Towers, home to 1,800 students, could be a model.
BU plots an eco-friendly glow-up for 1960s-era Warren Towers
Boston University's Warren Towers is the largest dorm in Massachusetts and one of the biggest in the country. Its three-and-a-half year, $550 million renovation will improve the living quarters and al...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:39 AM
True story: Warren Towers are the reason I went to a small liberal arts college. 17 year old me was so intimidated on the tour by the thought of trying to find friends in there that every college I applied to had fewer students than that dorm.
I’m so excited the audio version of this will arrive in @libro.fm library tomorrow!
So proud of this book, so happy it will be out in the world tomorrow, so much love to my co-editors @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social, and so much gratitude to all the amazing writers and activists who contributed www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I’m so excited the audio version of this will arrive in @libro.fm library tomorrow!
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I've been thinking about the importance of human voice actors ever since I started listening to the audiobook for You Weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White.
The narrator, Max Weber, puts in WORK. Agree or disagree with his acting choices, but it's a performance, it's an interpretation.
The narrator, Max Weber, puts in WORK. Agree or disagree with his acting choices, but it's a performance, it's an interpretation.
November 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I've been thinking about the importance of human voice actors ever since I started listening to the audiobook for You Weren't Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White.
The narrator, Max Weber, puts in WORK. Agree or disagree with his acting choices, but it's a performance, it's an interpretation.
The narrator, Max Weber, puts in WORK. Agree or disagree with his acting choices, but it's a performance, it's an interpretation.
Please enjoy my teenager’s charcu-turkey
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Please enjoy my teenager’s charcu-turkey
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STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...
www.simonandschuster.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
STARRED review in @libraryjournal.bsky.social for WE WILL RISE AGAIN, the speculative activism anthology edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and yours truly! Pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
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As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Novellas - Reactor
It's time to add something short and sweet to your TBR stack...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!
Doing a novella a day this week as I catch up on books I’ve been meaning to get to before our #Novellavember episode. I have a 2+hour daily commute (ugh) and listen to audiobooks at 1.75x, so a novella gets me to work and back nicely.
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Doing a novella a day this week as I catch up on books I’ve been meaning to get to before our #Novellavember episode. I have a 2+hour daily commute (ugh) and listen to audiobooks at 1.75x, so a novella gets me to work and back nicely.
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The witch took her hands off the patient's body.
"First of all," she said with absolute conviction, "there's nothing wrong with you."
"The doctor-"
"Said you must be either man or woman?"
"That it's black or white, no grey."
"Nonsense. Every colour in the rainbow is between black and white."
"First of all," she said with absolute conviction, "there's nothing wrong with you."
"The doctor-"
"Said you must be either man or woman?"
"That it's black or white, no grey."
"Nonsense. Every colour in the rainbow is between black and white."
October 26, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The witch took her hands off the patient's body.
"First of all," she said with absolute conviction, "there's nothing wrong with you."
"The doctor-"
"Said you must be either man or woman?"
"That it's black or white, no grey."
"Nonsense. Every colour in the rainbow is between black and white."
"First of all," she said with absolute conviction, "there's nothing wrong with you."
"The doctor-"
"Said you must be either man or woman?"
"That it's black or white, no grey."
"Nonsense. Every colour in the rainbow is between black and white."
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Publishers Weekly has named my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR a Best Book of the Year, 😃🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖🦿🐬.
Full list here: best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
Full list here: best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
October 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Publishers Weekly has named my novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR a Best Book of the Year, 😃🇳🇬🇺🇸🤖🦿🐬.
Full list here: best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
Full list here: best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-book...
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AN ARCANE INHERITANCE is on bookshop's Most Anticipated: Fiction list! I AM SO HAPPY THANK YOU (and thank you to @lilymeade.bsky.social for telling me!)
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Most Anticipated: Fiction Books
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
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October 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
AN ARCANE INHERITANCE is on bookshop's Most Anticipated: Fiction list! I AM SO HAPPY THANK YOU (and thank you to @lilymeade.bsky.social for telling me!)
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bookshop.org/lists/most-a...
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I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
RAKESFALL wins the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
RAKESFALL wins the Le Guin Prize!
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October 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I am delighted and honoured to say that my second novel RAKESFALL has won the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! vajra.me/2025/10/21/r...
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Book 105 or so?: Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. Space courier who helps raise AI bots (true AI, not the bullshit AI we have today) gets ensnared in political revolutionary shenanigans. 💙📚
October 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Book 105 or so?: Sunward by @willalex.bsky.social. Space courier who helps raise AI bots (true AI, not the bullshit AI we have today) gets ensnared in political revolutionary shenanigans. 💙📚
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#Booksky We’re going to kick off @wiscon.bsky.social’s new Vendor of the Month program on 11/1! Here’s how it works: sign up for WisCon’s newsletter and get the discount coupon for our webstore. Buy your queer books from us and we make a donation to WisCon through 11/30! wiscon.net/news/e-newsl...
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October 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
#Booksky We’re going to kick off @wiscon.bsky.social’s new Vendor of the Month program on 11/1! Here’s how it works: sign up for WisCon’s newsletter and get the discount coupon for our webstore. Buy your queer books from us and we make a donation to WisCon through 11/30! wiscon.net/news/e-newsl...
