Tome Talk Reading Recommendations
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMatt and Richard talk about books they enjoyed and why. Tome Talk is one of the Podcast Shorts produced by The Meddlesome Meeples. To find out more please visit http://meddlesomemeeples.com/
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Mistborn The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
July 04, 2018 05:30 - 13 minutes - 14.5 MBMatt and Richard discuss Mistborn: The Final Empire, the first book of the Mistborn series by award winning fantasy author Brandon Sanderson. You can also watch us discuss this on our YouTube channel, links further down. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and stay meddlesome! This episode was hoste...
#20: The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton
December 20, 2017 06:30 - 18 minutes - 18.8 MBRichard and Matt discuss the science fiction novel The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton. This is also available to watch on YouTube, links further down. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and stay meddlesome! This episode was hosted by Matt and Richard, and featured narration by Greyskarn T...
#19: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
November 29, 2017 06:30 - 15 minutes - 15.7 MBMatt and Richard discuss a book that they’ve both read, Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett, a fantasy crime and comedy book set in the Discworld and the first of Pratchett’s City Watch series. You can also this episode on our YouTube channel, links below. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and stay me...
#18: Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse book 1)
November 15, 2017 06:30 - 16 minutes - 16.5 MBRichard and Matt discuss the book Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey, which is the basis for the Netflix scifi show The Expanse. This episode of Tome Talk is also available to watch on our YouTube channel, The Meddlesome Meeples: https://goo.gl/SJ9SZD If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and stay m...
#17: Under The Eagle by Simon Scarrow
October 11, 2017 13:07 - 14 minutes - 14.7 MBMatt talks about the Roman historical fiction novel Under The Eagle, the first book of the Eagle series by Simon Scarrow, starring Macro and Cato. You can also watch Tome Talk on YouTube, links below. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and stay meddlesome! This episode was hosted by Matt and Richard...
#16: Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
September 27, 2017 05:30 - 23 minutes - 23.3 MBRichard and Matt discuss the non-fiction book Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari, as well as his book Sapiens. 9:09 Aristedes De Sousa Mendes 14:05 Google & Medical Epidemics 17:42 Sally Adee & The Helmet of Death If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and stay meddlesome! This episode was hosted by Mat...
#15: Dragons Of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance vol 1)
September 13, 2017 05:30 - 18 minutes - 18.9 MBMatt talks about a book that he first read as a kid, Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Weiss and Hickman, the first book of the Dragonlance Chronicles. Watch this on YouTube, check out the links at the bottom. We’ve also started a new series on YouTube, “The Quest Report Final Verdict”, a heavily edited version of The Quest Report in which we give our views on a game in 5 minutes or less! Check out the full description for links. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like ...
#14: Gateway by Frederik Pohl
August 30, 2017 05:30 - 12 minutes - 12.5 MBRichard talks about the scifi novel Gateway by Frederik Pohl, in which mankind finds a fleet of faster than light (FTL) ships with mysterious preprogrammed destinations in their computers, and brave adventurers have to find out where those coordinates lead. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and sta...
#13: Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, the classic book that inspired John Carpenter’s The Thing
August 16, 2017 05:30 - 13 minutes - 13.2 MBIn this episode of Tome Talk Reading Recommendations, Matt talks about the classic sci-fi horror novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, the award winning novel that inspired John Carpenter’s The Thing, the classic The Thing From Another World, and 2011’s The Thing (a prequel to John Carpenter’s Film). If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website. You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes ...
#12: Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick
August 02, 2017 05:30 - 11 minutes - 11.3 MBRichard talks about why he enjoyed Counter-Clock World by Philip K. Dick, a scifi novel from the author of “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” (adapted for the film “Blade Runner”) in which the world is travelling backwards through time in episode 12 of Tome Talk (which is also available to watch on YouTube). If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast...
EPISODE 11: The Shadow Over Innsmouth, a scifi horror novella by HP Lovecraft
July 19, 2017 05:30 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBWhy are the inhabitants of nearby towns so distrustful of the inhabitants of Innsmouth? What causes outsiders to feel a wave of revulsion when encountering its people? Indeed, what is the mysterious shadow over Innsmouth? Matthew and Richard discuss the scifi horror novella by H.P. Lovecraft “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, the only of his stories to be printed as a book in his lifetime, which has inspired and influenced a wide range of games, books, films, and dramatisations. If you enjoyed th...
EPISODE 10: Hyperion by Dan Simmons
July 05, 2017 05:30 - 20 minutes - 19.6 MBRichard talks about why he enjoyed Hyperion by Dan Simmons, a science fiction novel about a group of pilgrims who travel to a distant world to meet a terrifyingly powerful being called the Shrike who will grant 1 of those pilgrims a wish, and slaughter the rest. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, an...
EPISODE 9: Aztec Century by Christopher Evans
June 21, 2017 05:30 - 13 minutes - 13.5 MBHow might history have been different if Hernán (or Hernando) Cortés had allied with the Aztecs? Matt and Richard discuss Aztec Century, an alternate history novel by Welsh writer Christopher Evans in which the Aztec Empire is a global superpower, and what that means for occupied Britain. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher....
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
June 07, 2017 05:30 - 17 minutes - 16.6 MBRichard talks about why he enjoyed Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, a dystopian book in which all books are burned. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and stay meddlesome! This episode was hosted by Matt and Richard, and featured narration by Greyskarn The Black. It featured the following songs: Sco...
Magician (Riftwar book 1) by Raymond E. Feist
May 24, 2017 05:30 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBMatt discusses Magician by Raymond E. Feist, first novel of the Riftwar saga, an epic fantasy tale with science fiction elements. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and stay meddlesome! This episode was hosted by Matt and Richard, and featured narration by Greyskarn The Black. It featured the follo...
Space Ranger, a novel by Isaac Asimov
May 10, 2017 05:35 - 15 minutes - 16 MBRichard and Matt discuss the scifi novel Space Ranger by Isaac Asimov. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website. You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and stay meddlesome! This episode was hosted by Matt and Richard, and featured narration by Greyskarn The Black. It featured the following songs: Scott Holmes “Rad Adventures” – Eidetic Seeing “It’s...
The Eye Of The World by Robert Jordan
April 26, 2017 05:30 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBMatt and Richard discuss the fantasy novel The Eye Of The World by Robert Jordan, first book of The Wheel Of Time and soon to be a major TV series from Sony. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website. You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and stay meddlesome! This episode was hosted by Matt and Richard, and featured narration by Greyskarn The Black. ...
Marrow by Robert Reed
April 12, 2017 05:30 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBIn this episode of Tome Talk, Richard recommends the science fiction novel Marrow by Robert Reed. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find lots of videos and audio podcasts on our website: Home You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for joining us, and stay meddlesome! This episode was hosted by Matt and Richard, and featured narration by Greyskarn The Black. It featured the following songs: Scott Holmes “Rad Ad...
The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell
March 29, 2017 07:00 - 7 minutes - 7.6 MBMatt and Richard discuss The Last Kingdom, the first novel in Bernard Cornwell’s series of the same name, now adapted for television by the BBC (starring Alexander Dreymon). If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe or give us a like 🙂 You can find more episodes and videos on our website: www.MeddlesomeMeeples.com. You can also subscribe to our audio podcast on iTunes and Stitcher. Thanks for listening, and stay meddlesome! This video is narrated by Greyskarn The Black, and feature...
#2 The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
March 15, 2017 23:57 - 9 minutes - 9.14 MBRichard and Matt discuss The Lathe Of Heaven, a 1971 science fiction novel centered around George Orr, a man whose dreams could alter reality, even the past. The novel received nominations for the 1972 Hugo[1] and the 1971 Nebula Award,[2] and won the Locus Award for Best Novel in 1972. Intro: The Great Cold “Orphne” – Credits: Eidetic Seeing “It’s Brick Out”… Read More
#1 Caiphas Cain by Sandy Mitchell
March 13, 2017 12:00 - 4 minutes - 5.23 MBMatt and Richard discuss the Caiaphas Cain books by Sandy Mitchell, one of Matt’s recent reads, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.… Read More