Critical Friends Episode 24: On Oeuvres
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June 1, 2026 · 57 min
About this episode
The episode discusses how reviewers and readers should approach authors with extensive back catalogs.
In this episode of Critical Friends , the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, Kate Macdonald and Duncan Lawie join Dan Hartland to tackle the question of the back catalog. How should reviewers and readers approach writers with a number of books already to their name? How should we think about and access authors who have enjoyed a career of some duration? Kate's review of The Curve of the World by Vonda N. McIntyre . Duncan's review of Loss Protcol by Paul McAuley .
People in this episode
Host: Dan Hartland
Guests: Kate Macdonald, Duncan Lawie
Topics covered
- SFF criticism
- back catalog
- author reviews
- literary analysis
- reader approach
Keywords
- SFF
- criticism
- back catalog
- author reviews
- literary analysis
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: The Curve of the World, Loss Protocol
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