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Luke Burrage
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Juggler, performer, videographer, podcaster, organiser.
New SFBRP!!!

Juliane begins the podcast by wondering whether When There Are Wolves Again by E J Swift is even science fiction, and Luke has strong thoughts on that and other questions.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2393

#booksky #sciencefiction #bookreview #podcast
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke re-reads The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken to see if it keeps its place on the SFBRP Must-Read list.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2390

#booksky #sciencefiction #bookreview #podcast
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke talks to Juliane about the first two novels in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Tyrant Philosophers fantasy series, City of Last Chances and House of Open Wounds.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2387

#booksky #bookreview #podcast
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New SFBRP!!

Luke tells Juliane about a mostly-forgotten Nebula Award winning novel from 1971, A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg, and how it's VERY IMPORTANT that the main character struggles with premature ejaculation.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2383

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November 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke and Juliane talk about One Day All This Will Be Yours, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s take on how one might lose a time war.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2379

#booksky
October 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke is very excited about new directions for science fiction as a genre, so talks up the promise of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor… but then explains to Juliane why he ultimately didn't make it to the end of the novel.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2376

#booksky
September 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke and Juliane revisit The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers and discuss why writing a cozy story is incompatible with writing a traditionally good science fiction novel.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2371

#booksky #spaceopera #cozy
September 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Juggling Podcast 067 - A Summer of Juggling

Luke and Juliane catch up on Your Time to Shine, the European Juggling Convention, and organising Fight Night Combat using the new website.

Listen on Patreon:
www.patreon.com/posts/137853...

Or on YouTube:
youtu.be/K-N0QQy02hc

#juggling #podcast
September 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke and Juliane discuss Solaris by Stanisław Lem. Trigger Warning: Luke has "explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers."

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2366
July 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke reviews The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, the Goodreads Winner for Readers' Favorite Science Fiction of 2024, which means it isn’t actually good science fiction but is pretty competent at the other things it’s trying to be.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2358

#booksky
June 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke rereads Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card to see if it should be on the SFBRP Must-Read List, and with Juliane discusses how Some Desperate Glory fails to live up to its predecessors.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2351

#booksky
June 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke tells Juliane about Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh, a novel that started strong but left him disappointed and annoyed. Also this won the best novel Hugo award, so they talk about that too.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2348

#booksky
June 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
New SFBRP!!!

Part 3 of our discussion of The Lord of the Rings, focusing on The Return of the King, what it means to be a good man or a good king, lessons learned by the hobbits and us during their adventures, and a final review of the reading experience.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2345

#booksky
May 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
New SFBRP!!!

The Two Towers and other towers.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2342

Part 2 of Luke and Juliane’s discussion of The Lord of the Rings, focusing on The Two Towers, the power of wizards, action vs fights vs battles vs sieges, a diversion on Ents, and who is tempted by the One Ring.

#booksky
May 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
New SFBRP!!!

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2338

Part 1 of our discussion of The Lord of the Rings, the audiobook performance by Andy Serkis, appreciation for the first movie in the trilogy, how Tom Bombadil can be so annoying, and Luke takes a stab at the question “what even are elves?”

#booksky
May 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke delves into The Silmarillion for the first time, and talks to Juliane about myth creation, map confusion, and the genealogy of a silver tree.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2334

#booksky #fantasy #book #review #podcast
April 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
New SFBRP!!!

Juliane finished Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky and so Luke joins her to discuss academic politics, totalitarian politics, aliens, and clay.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2331

#booksky #sciencefiction #bookreview #podcast
March 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke revisits Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds, and tells Juliane about the four different levels of understanding available to discover and enjoyment to be had.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2328

#booksky
March 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
New SFBRP!

Luke talks to Juliane about Neverness by David Zindell, an epic space opera from 1988 which for years he considered one of his favourite science fiction novels, and debates adding it to the SFBRP Must-Read List.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2323

#booksky #sciencefiction #bookreview #podcast
February 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke and Juliane share their thoughts on Earth Abides by George R Stewart, an influential post-apocalyptic novel from 1949.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2313

#bookreview
#booksky
January 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
New SFBRP!!!

Luke tells Juliane why Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson ended up on his did-not-finish list, and why it was such a disappointment after The Space Between Worlds.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2308

#bookreview
#booksky
January 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM