Craig welcomes back Drew McCaffrey from the Inking Out Loud podcast to discuss Terry Brooks’ 1986 novel, Magic Kingdom For Sale–Sold! It’s a book that Craig has recommended as a great entry point into fantasy literature, and that’s one of the major questions they tackle in this episode.

The Ladies of the Legendarium (Stephanie, Megan, and newcomer Rachel) take on The Golden Compass, the first book in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman.

Craig and Kyle were chatting and then decided: You know what? We should just turn on the mics. In this episode, they sit down and tackle the question of whether fantasy’s current “everyman” author really is for everyone. Who should read him? Who won’t enjoy his stuff so much? What is he amazing at? What are his shortcomings? We’re ready to hear your responses to what we bring up here, so be sure to click the Discord link below and join the conversation!

Craig and Ryan are joined in this episode by Todd and Megan to discuss the middle chunk of Rhythm of War, book 4 in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive series. There’s even a virtual appearance by Kenn, who sent in his customary recap. So enjoy!

In this originally-aborted first attempt to talk about Rhythm of War (Stromlight Archive #4), Craig, Ryan, Kenn, and Stephanie meander through a conversation about … well, about a lot of stuff, just not necessarily the stuff you were most excited to hear about. That’s why they recorded another episode and released it first, which you can listen to here. But here’s this episode now, in all its shame and glory!

Todd is joined once more time in 2020 by Kenn and Megan, and the three of them talk about the incredible journey the Blue Team has been on in 2020. They run through some of the highlights of where they’ve been, and also discuss future books for 2021.

In this strange episode, we’re taking a mulligan! Craig, Stephanie, Ryan, and Kenn realized their first attempt at this episode missed a lot of stuff, so you’re hearing take number two. But fear not! We’ll still air the original attempt as well shortly.

Craig and Ryan welcome Drew and Lauren McCaffrey, who have come to discuss Shadows of the Empire, the Star Wars movie that never was. There’s a lot to discuss, between the book and its accompanying video game and the rest of the marketing push to make Shadows a huge thing back in 1996. There’s enough ground to cover, in fact, that we made this episode a two-parter, and you can hear the other part on Drew’s podcast, Inking Out Loud. Head over there to hear the companion episode, and to get the other half of the hashtag you’ll need to enter the giveaway drawing. (More details below.)

Listen to the Inking Out Loud episode here.

The Blue Team is back for their last bit of Dresden discussion for a while. Todd, Megan, and Kenn cut the last Dresden episode off a bit abruptly because they wanted to give [redacted]’s death in this book more than a cursory five-minute treatment. So that’s what this episode is all about. Enjoy!

Craig and Ryan sit down to reminisce about 300 episodes and thank the panelists and audience for nearly 7(!) wonderful years. They also splice in some audio from the other panelists and a couple of key listeners.