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b'Sharifah and Jenn answer some listener book questions and recommend their sci-fi and fantasy picks for holiday gift-giving this year.\\n\\nThis episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot\\u2019s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Tor Books and Kalipso by Marie Blanchet.\\n\\nSubscribe to the podcast via RSS here, Apple Podcasts here, Spotify here.The show can also be found on Stitcher here.\\n\\nTo get even more SF/F news and recs, sign up for our Swords and Spaceships newsletter!\\n\\nQuestions\\n\\n1. Hi!\\n\\nI have the stereotypical hard to buy for husband. He\\u2019s a big epic Sci-fi/fantasy fan. He loves the Expanse series, Game of Thrones, Peter F. Hamilton, Jeff Vandermeer, and Neal Stephenson. He\\u2019s also likes NK Jemison\\u2019s series and Octavia Butler. Any ideas for some new author or series? Thanks so much!\\n\\n-Melanie\\n\\n2. I would love some great winter fantasy books to curl up with over this holiday season. Living in Florida I don\\u2019t really experience a winter unless I travel, which is obviously not happening this year, so I get all of my snow feels from books. I loved Katherine Arden\\u2019s series and I already have Sisters of the Winter Wood on my TBR. I lean towards fantasy, but if you have a great sci-fi rec then that would be awesome too! Thanks so much, y\\u2019all are amazing!\\n\\n-Liza\\n\\n3. Hi,This year for Christmas, my sister and I are buying each other books so she\\u2019s writing in to When in Romance to request a recommendation and I\\u2019m writing into y\\u2019all.\\n\\nI\\u2019m looking for something in the vein of Orphan Black, Ex Machina, Dollhouse and the Villains duology by V.E. Schwab. The best way I can think of to describe is: amoral people doing kind of terrible things in the name of science that brings up questions of humanity (but isn\\u2019t that just all sci-fi?)\\n\\nAnyway, I\\u2019ll put a link to my goodreads at the bottom but it\\u2019s kind of a mess so here\\u2019s a quick(ish) rundown:I think the only ones already on my radar are Gemsigns and Jurassic Park (even though it\\u2019s dinosaurs and not humans, I\\u2019m gonna give it a go.)Books I\\u2019ve read that seem like they would fit here include:-Never Let Me Go \\u2013 tbh I probably would have liked this better if it had followed the people that ran the school instead of the kids.-Island of Dr. Moreau \\u2013 obvious OB connection and it\\u2019s been years but I remember loving it.-Frankenstein and Brave New World \\u2013 putting these together because both of them just weren\\u2019t what I was expecting, if that makes sense.-Mila 2.0 \\u2013 again it\\u2019s been years and I remember it being fine but it was the same situation as Never Let Me Go.\\n\\n-Crystal\\n\\nBooks Recommended\\n\\nThe Poppy War trilogy by RF Kuang (trigger warnings: basically all of them, it\\u2019s really brutal)\\n\\nThe Green Bone saga by Fonda Lee (Trigger warnings: mentions of sexual assault, suicide and self-harm)\\n\\nGirls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust\\n\\nSpinning Silver by Naomi Novik\\n\\nGemsigns by Stephanie Saulter\\n\\nThe Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas (tw: self-harm, disordered eating, hazing)\\n\\nVita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, translated by Julia Meitov Hersey\\n\\nThe House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (tw: child abuse)\\n\\nBlack Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (tw: harm to children, graphic violence)\\n\\nCemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (tw: transphobia)\\n\\nVagabonds by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu (tw: reference to suicide)\\n\\nThe Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo\\n\\nThe Down Days by Ilze Hugo (TW: child abuse/death; CW: drug addiction, fatphobic language)\\n\\nWoven in Moonlight by Isabel Iba\\xf1ez\\n\\nRiot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi (all the trigger warnings)\\nSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'