Reviewer and historian Liz Bourke joins to discuss religion, historical overlaps, and examinations of gender in Paladin of Souls and fantasy more generally.

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• Guest: Liz Bourke
• Title: Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Host:Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Blood Tide by Sophie Burnham
• Jen Lyons' Green and Deadly Things
• Hiron Ennes’ The Works of Vermin
• China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station
• Bret Devereaux’s series on military-historical realism in Tolkien; see for instance “The Siege of Gondor Part IV”
• McMaster’s Curse of Chalion, Penric & Desdemona series, Vorkosigan series
• Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love
• Bioware's Dragon Age games
• Cult of Asclepius
• Tolkien's idea of the “eucatastrophe”
• M. Night Shyamalan
• Mythopoeia
• Sofia Samatar’s A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories
• Liz's bluesky & website