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Far Fetched Fables

Far Fetched Fables

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Explore fantastical lands with Far-Fetched Fables! Do you sometimes wonder how things could be different, should be different? Do you feel the call of the bizarre and surreal? Each week, Nicola Seaton-Clark explores a little further into the rare and mysterious lands which lie just outside our familiar reality, forging paths of wonder, magic and delight! Podcasting the finest in genre fiction, Far-Fetched Fables puts the “wonders” in the District of Wonders podcast network. Like all shows in ...
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This month the Legends team reviews the entire Legacy of the Force series! Coffee With Kenobi iTunes Feed Comics With Kenobi iTunes Feed Resistance Reactions iTunes Feed Lattes With Leia iTunes Feed Related projects from the Legends Library team: Obroa-Skai Walkers Podcast iTunes Feed Liisa Mountain YouTube Channel…
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This month Liisa Mountain (www.liisamountain.com) joins Luke and Randy as they continue to move through the Legacy of the Force series. Karen Traviss', Sacrifice is this month's book. One of the most intense Star Wars books ever written, Jacen completes his descent into the dark side and we lose a beloved character. RIP Mara Jade Skywalker!!!…
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Inspired by Coffee With Kenobi host Dan Zehr and last week's conversation with the Youtini team, Randy takes a second look at the novels recommended by them. In a desire to encourage positivity he also give a challenge to read his hidden gem novel that deserves a second look. Enjoy this episode and pass on what you have learned! Or just share your …
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The biggest podcast Legends Library has ever done is here! Writers, editors, social media contributors along with the CEO, join Randy to talk about the rapid growth of Youtini.com. They share their Star Wars book enthusiasm as well as the details behind one of the fastest growing companies in Star Wars fandom. Hear the heart of the team as they exp…
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The Legacy of the Force series continues with, Bloodlines, by Karen Traviss. Luke and Randy discuss this Boba Fett centric novel that is the continuation of one of the most popular Star Wars novel series. The Galaxy is in a downward spiral toward Civil War. The Corellians are asserting more and more independence and the Alliance is trying to mainta…
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After much time and great patience, Luke and Randy finally get to talk about Legacy of the Force! This month is the first part of the nine book series, Betrayal, by the late Aaron Allston. The big three are now in their 60's and 70's but they are still very much involved in galaxy affairs. All of the Legends characters that we know and love play ma…
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This month on Legends Library, Luke and Randy prepare for the Star Wars summer blockbuster, Solo: A Star Wars Story to be released by reviewing one of the very first of the Legends line of books, At Star's End. Turn back time with the guys and delve into the era that started it all. The Brian Daley's books are highly respected and appreciated by St…
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Join Randy this week as he attempts his first "solo" flight. He shares his audiobook review of The Last Shot by, Daniel Jose Older, narrated by the author, Marc Thompson and January Lavoy. Randy also reminds us about the upcoming review of At Star's End by, Brian Daley. Last but not least, listen to a very special Star Wars story!…
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Liisa Mountain, Luke and Randy finish the review of Dawn of the Jedi, Into the void, by Tim Lebbon. They share ideas of how different the story could have been told through the eyes of other characters. What is the final outcome and overall opinion of our hosts for this book set 30,000 years BBY? This episode completes the review of the Old Republi…
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Luke and Randy are joined by special guest, Liisa Mountain who was the 2016 Library Card winner. Tim Lebbon's, Dawn of the Jedi, Into the Void is the topic of dicussion this month. Randy also brings in info from Nathan P. Butler's, Timeline Gold project, which sheds light on the very early years of the formation of the galaxy far, far, away. When l…
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Randy and special guest, Jay Krebs, discuss the book, Wishful Drinking, by Carrie Fisher. Listen in and join the conversation via email as they reverently and tenderly address their appreciation for Carrie, admiration for her courage and share the regret for the loss of her from the Star Wars community. The very sensitive topics of mental health, v…
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Cole Peel joins Luke and Randy as they conclude their conversation inpired by the book Fatal Alliance, writen by Sean Williams. Luke and Randy are joined by special guest, Cole Peel, to talk about the Old Republic book, Fatal Alliance, written by Sean Williams. Cole was the 2017 Library Card winner and was so well received that Randy and Luke had h…
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Luke and Randy are joined by special guest, Cole Peel, to talk about the Old Republic book, Fatal Alliance, written by Sean Williams. Cole was the 2017 Library Card winner and was so well received that Randy and Luke had him back. Join them as they discus the origin of the strange ship found in the unknown regions. How does a random band of heroes …
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“Too Poor to Sin” by H.L. Fullerton (Originally published in Mysterion.) Grandfather squandered our family's fortune on forgiveness, forcing Father to enlist in the Legion and serve the angels. This was before he met Mother and they had me, though the angels' war still rages. Father doesn't say much about his years of service, except that it would'…
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“Penelope's Song” by Samuel Marzioli (Originally published in The Third Spectral Book of Horror Stories.) Penelope gazed through her bedroom window, mesmerized by the motion of the night. Flowers trembled, grass ruffled and trees swayed, flailing their branches. The sight of it unsettled her. In fifteen years she hadn’t learned much about the world…
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“Avarice” by Michael Rimar (Originally published in Darwin's Evolutions.) Shadow blocked the glare of Uttum’s twin suns. Saleem looked up at the source, a man dressed in robes pale as bleached bone. “Offering for the poor?” Saleem kept his tone weak and pitiful, offering his wicker basket to the stranger. “I have more than offerings for you, my you…
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“In the Late December” by Greg van Eekhout (Originally published in Strange Horizons.) Here's a secret of the North Pole: Santa powders his hands with talc before donning his thick red mittens. It is a small secret, true, but some would give anything to steal even that. A secret is a detail, and here in the late December, a detail is as precious as…
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“M” by Russell Hemmell (Originally published in Not One of Us.) We look like them, Christian thought, admiring the fresco in the charnel house and its ghastly figures, scary and eerily beautiful. He adjusted the heavy cloak over his shoulders. The evening was damp and cold, and he was tired after a whole day on the move. But he could not avoid that…
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Join Luke and Randy this month as they talk about the past three years of talking Legends books! Doing thier best to keep the Legends timeline alive and at the front of listeners minds, they share favorite stories and what they are looking forward to in the Star Wars future. Also, they share about the future of Legends Library and of course announc…
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“Customer Service Hobgoblin” by Paul R. Hardy (Originally published in Unidentified Funny Objects 5.) Beeep. "Good morning, you're through to Robin. How may I receive your prayer?" "Oh. Hello? My name is Bishop Augusto de Figueroa. Am I speaking to God?" "No, sir, my name's Robin. How can I --" "Well, young man, I wanted to talk to God. You see it'…
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“The Man Who Did Nothing” by Karen Traviss (Originally published in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection.) Hursley Rise, May 2 There was a boy – five, maybe six – sitting on half a discarded mattress by the kerb as Jeff drove down the road. At first he thought the child was trying to open a bottle of pop, but the closer h…
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“Psychopomps” by Judith Field(Originally published in The Colored Lens, Summer 2014.)Mark’s next door neighbour and business partner Pat kept telling him that power flowed through his veins. He took a breath and closed his eyes, trying to will the power back out again and into the ash wand in his outstretched hand. He pointed it at Pat’s door. A na…
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“The Tavern at the Ford” by Dave Smeds(Originally published in Sword and Sorceress XXVIII.)Until that awful night, Azure had always assumed she would live out her entire life in thevillage. That’s how it had been for generations.Grandpa had shared the history one day while standing with her on the old stone bridge.“There used to be a ford there,” h…
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This marks the second annual give away of the Legends Library Card and the three year anniversary of the Legends Library Podcast. Luke and Randy are joined by this year's winner, Cole Peel, from Alba, Texas. He chose the book Death Star to review, written by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry. Spanning a period of the three-year construction of the Dea…
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“Unraveling” by K.G. Anderson(Originally published in Triangulation: Beneath the Surface.)"Sarah -- he's using you!" My voice rose into the whine my daughter loathed, but I couldn't stop. I pressed the phone to my ear. "You're 16. I absolutely forbid -- "My runaway daughter informed me that she hated me."Have fun with the old witches," she said, an…
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“Mouth of the Jaguar” by Evan Dicken(Originally published in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #20.)Hummingbird was to be the final sacrifice of the day. The man before her struggled on a raisedstone slab, chest heaving as a flock of blood-spattered priests pinned his arms and legs. Sunlight glitteredon the Cazonci's obsidian dagger--curved like a jaguar's …
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Main Story: “Perchance to Dream” by David Morrell(Originally published in Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy.)Dr. Baker.Dr. Baker.He came to my office on a Friday afternoon. Tall, slender, and sandy-haired, he had a thin, aristocratic face that might have been handsome if it weren’t so haggard. His eyes looked puffy. Red streaked their whites. I w…
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The circle is complete!!!!! At least the New Jedi Order is complete. Luke and Randy close out the final chapter of the NJO this month. The Final Prophecy and The Unifying Force are the focus this episode, bringing the over 20 book series to an end. Jacen, Luke, and Zonama Sekot take on the last of the Yuuzhan Vong on Coruscant. In what seemed to be…
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“The Hour of the Rat” by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt(Originally published in Cirsova Magazine #1.)shigururu ya winter rainnezumi no wataru a mouse runskoto no ue across the koto-- Yosa Buson (1716-1783)Nezumi's heart pounded as she pressed against the wall. She willed herself to be as invisible as the night all around her. She put a hand over her mouth s…
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“The Demi-Arcanist's Will” by Jakob Drud(Originally published in The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Volume 2.)The cabinet was all but invisible in the fumes, except in the spot where Jarn Dinaris wove his grounding seam into Master Elosivan's seam of transmission. There the metal hissed and glowed in dark purples as they wove the com…
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Flash Fiction: “The Banshee Behind Beamon's Bakery” by Khalidaah Muhammad-Ali(Originally published in Diabolical Plots #21.)Most nights the alley behind Beamon’s Bakery is just an alley.The street lamp bleeds piss yellow light, casting jagged shadows around the overflowing dumpster and discarded boxes. The walls are tagged with gang signs, claiming…
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“Princess Cosima and the 1,000 Cats” by Sarah L. Byrne(Originally published in Betwixt #4.)"Provide ships or sails adapted to the heavenly breezes, and there will be some who will not fear even that void." -- Johannes Kepler, 1610The red palace was home to a thousand cats. Or so people said. Princess Cosima, twenty, beautiful and bored, walked thro…
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