Why you should read 1980s fantasy Mythago Wood

Описание: MAIN BOOK DISCUSSED: Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock (1984), part one in the seven book Ryhope Wood series

Jay’s top five sci-fi reads of 2024 (not 2025 as ERRONEOUSLY stated, sorry!):

1. The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
2. The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, the second book in The Three-Body Problem series
3. Network Effect by Martha Wells, the fifth book in The Murderbot Diaries seven book series
4. Rosewater by Tade Thompson, the first book in the Wormwood Trilogy
5. Count Zero by William Gibson, the second book in the Sprawl Trilogy

HONOURABLE MENTION: The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness, the second book in the Chaos Walking trilogy, YA

Simon’s 2024 reads:

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (fantasy), first book in the Alex Stern series of which book three is anticipated in 2025
Eisenhorn, Ravenor and early Gaunts Ghosts books by Dan Abnett (fantasy and graphic novels)
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (historical fiction)
M Train by Patti Smith (memoir)

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED

Neuromancer by William Gibson, the first book in the Sprawl Trilogy
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb, first book in the Farseer Trilogy
Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock (1988), part two in the Ryhope Wood series
Robert Holdstock’s Night Hunter horror series, written under the pseudonym Robert Faulcon
Carl Jung, psychoanalyst who originated the concept of ‘Jungian’ archetypes held in the ‘collective unconscious’
The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
Gormenghast by Mervin Peake
Stig of the Dump by Clive King (1963, children’s)

TV MENTIONED: The forthcoming Murderbot Diaries adaptation, Apple TV. CORRECTION, Jay said that Alexander Skarsgård, who will play Murderbot, had also played Jamie Lannister in Game of Thrones. In fact that was Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.

MAGAZINE MENTIONED: White Dwarf, Interzone section, published by Games Workshop