Superkultur-podcastens årsrevy 2025, del 2

Hvori værterne for alvor tager hul på det seneste års science fiction-TV, samt bøger af diverse genrer. Skuffelserne står stadig tæt, men der viser sig lyspunkter. Måske.

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Hvad har vi set

Alien Earth

Foundation sæson 3

• Dune prophecy

Genkig: Matt Smiths Doctor Who

Pluribus

• Sense8

Bugonia

El eternauta

Hvad har vi læst

China Mieville/Keanu Reeves, The book of elsewhere

Irene Solà, Jeg gav dig øjne, og du så mod mørket

NMAAR, Hvad månen bringer

Mona Awad, Bunny

Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

Philip Pullman, The rose field

Kelly Link, The book of love

Øvrigt

Andor

Stranger things

Common side effects

Redaktionelt

Vi har ikke lært en skid af forrige afsnit, og også dette afsnit er optaget over Zoom. Som et ekstra benspænd ringede en af os ind på mobil fra et sommerhus i det nordjyske, og der kan derfor være enkelte udfald i lyden. Vi har prøvet at udbedre det i redigeringen, og håber ikke, det forstyrrer forståelsen af samtalen.

Denne gang har vi brugt musik af Matt Oakley (The incredible shrinking Larry), Glad Rags (Social kapital (reprise)) og Dee Yan-Key (Finis Comoediae). Alle er tilgængelige fra Free Music Archive under CC-Attribution-licensen.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke: 58/2025: ⭐️: Whether it’s because I’m not enough of a fantasy fan, or not English enough, or some other thing, this was _not_ my thing. https://michaelhans.com/eclecticism/2025/11/28/jonathan-strange-mr-norrell-by-susanna-clarke

#HugoAward #HugoBestNovel #SusannaClarke #Books #Photos

"Piranesi" von Susanna Clarke. Lieblingsbuch.

Ich besitze die Hardcover auf deutsch und russisch, Hörbücher - ebenfalls in beiden Sprachen, das dt. eBook und dieses Taschenbuch.
Wenn es ein Ausmalbuch gäbe, ich würde es auch noch kaufen.

#euleliest #buch #lieblingsbuch #lesen #bücher #hörbuch #piranesi #susannaclarke

I thought I found a Habsburg way way back in our family tree (I know, so what? But I'm a genealogy nerd) (through my great-great-great-grandmother, Mary Ellen Rager) but the tree breaks per the official records at the father of Melchior Greiner, a glassmaker, born ca. 1380.
FamilySearch claims Melchior's grandfather was Count Eberhard von Württemberg II, but the son listed (Melchior's father, supposedly Eberhard Greiner) is not in any official records.
Eberhard II was NICKNAMED "der Greiner" and one official record does say he had an illegitimate child, but I don't know how they would have proved the link to Melchior.
What's interesting is that the line of Greiners DOES stay in Baden-Württemberg for quite a while… so it matches up geographically…

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Going directly back, even the Constable line breaks in the 1400s before we get to the cool names like D'Aubigny, de Mowbray, de Braose, and supposedly even Llewelyn Fawr ap Iorwerth, via the maternal line via Agnes Gascoigne (who married Sir Robert Constable). We lose the official line at her purported grandson, John, maybe even at her son (sources disagree) Richard. It doesn't help that there's a fuckton of Roberts and Marmadukes (yes, Marmaduke Constable, we just know know which one(s)).

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Well, by golly, I didn't click back far enough, because there's ol' William the Conqueror himself in my family tree. Henry I even shows up a few different places, through Edith/Matilda to Joan, Lady of Wales, to the de Braose line, and through Empress Matilda to William Longespée (illegitimate son of Henry II and Ida de Tosny), his daughter marrying into the de Mowbray line, AND supposedly Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester's (illegitimate son of Henry I) grand-daughter married a de Clare, and a few more generations down that merged with the de Mowbray line.
Now I still don't BELIEVE any of it, because it all hinges on Agnes Gascoigne, and I just can't track down any record of her son Richard (Constable) having a son named John, and I can't find an explanation for how we got from Flamborough to Horsham (where we KNOW we immigrated from to Pennsylvania in 1836). And as far as direct descendancy goes, all it takes is one bastard in the bunch to break that maternal line.
I was honestly most excited at the idea we might be from Yorkshire at all, because, you know, that's the Raven King's country. (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell fangirl, here)

Susanna Clarke: Piranesi and Jonathan Strange

Did you ever finish reading a book and then went straight back to the first page to read it again? This happened to me when I read Piranesi, a rather short novel by Susanna Clarke. Piranesi is a magical, mythical and mind-boggling mystery. Probably one of the most unique books I have ever read.

I don’t really know what else to say about this book without spoiling it, except that it’s […]

https://chaosworks.org/2024/susanna-clarke/

"It is my belief that the World (or, if you will, the House, since the two are for all practical purposes identical) wishes an Inhabitant for Itself to be a witness to its Beauty and the recipient of its Mercies. If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant, and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?"
- Susanna Clarke, "Piranesi"

#BookologyThursday #Book #Literature #Fantasy #SusannaClarke