As we wrap up queer sci-fi month (😔🫶🏼) we get together to chat about our incredible book club pick, IDA by Alison Evans. This book follows Ida, who believes that she can time travel and uses her ability to amend errors in her life. From avoiding car crashes to rewinding conversational hiccups, who wouldn't want to travel through time? But when Ida's doppelganger sits down beside her at the train station, and her grasp on time becomes slippery, she realizes that she has been shifting between parallel universes. Every decision she changes creates a new version of herself. What happens to those versions of Ida, who have to live with the consequences she's avoiding? What happens when those doppelgangers get mad?

Join us as we get philosophical and ask questions such as; what does sci-fi look like at a domestic level? What kind of lives are the alternative versions of yourself living? Do you think it's harder to make mistakes and be imperfect today, in the age of social media, than it used to be? How does IDA disrupt the notion of a single, constant identity? And where do YOU begin and end?

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This episode Amy, Justina & Abby are joined by Alison Evans, author of our June BOTM Ida, as well as a whole host of other queer YA and middle grade speculative fiction, sci-fi and fantasy. Join us as we discuss all things reading and writing queer spec fic, imagining hopeful futures in YA, zine making for horse girls (gender neutral) – plus some (mostly) spoiler-free Ida chats ahead of next week’s book club.

MENTIONS

🌌 Our BOTM is Ida by Alison Evans

📚 BOOKS: Garth Nix; Isobel Carmody; Paul Collins; Michael Pryor; Obernewtyn by Isobel Carmody; The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells; Jorge Luis Borges; Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut; This is How You Lose the Time War by by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone; Highway Bodies by Alison Evans; This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield; Kindred: 12 #LoveOzYA Stories ed. Michael Earp

✍️ SHORT STORIES: “Tomorrow, Dawn” by Sascha Stronach

📺 TV SHOWS: Star Trek (1966–1969); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)

✂️ ZINES: Long Trek; Pony with a Secret; 2 Pony 2 Zine; Ponies in Space

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For the second week of Pride Month we're tackling fanfiction, all the way back to the Kirk/Spock community that started it all. There's something for everyone this episode: the history and fundamentals of fanfic, the community and passion of the craft, the social implactions of ladies reading slash, and even how AI could effect the way we approach fanfic (clue: we don't like it!). Harry tells us about some strange and thought-provoking LOTR fics he's read, Payton gives us a lesson in cognitive poetics, and Millie gets passionate about sapphic media, all while Amy tangents us and keeps us on track in equal measure.

This month we're reading Ida by Alison Evans. Grab your copy and read along with us ahead of book club on June 25!

MENTIONS

Books

Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
Cognitive Poetics by Peter Stockwell

Film/TV

Star Trek TOS (1966-1969)
Star Trek TNG (1987-1994)
Star Trek reboot movies (2009, 2013, 2016)
Into the Woods (2014)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Starsky & Hutch (1975-1979)
Buffy (1997-2003)
Lord of the Rings franchise
Xena (1995-2001)
Twilight franchise
Hacks (2021-2026)

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• YT: https://www.youtube.com/@AmyandBookClub

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