{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Accidental Gods - The Thrutopian Podcast","title":"Word Magic 2025 - Accidental Gods' pick of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and podcasts through the year","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/a68a854e\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1954,"description":"Here's Manda's round up of (some of) the best books, poetry and podcasts she's come across this year.   Most of the links are to Bookshop.org in the UK where you can link to an independent bookshop of your choice.  In some cases, we've linked to the authors' website.\nFiction\nRachel Neumeier - Rihasi, Marag, Sekaran, Hedesa - all four are part of the TUYO series. 8 Doors from Dawn to Midnight is a stand alone. \n\nNatasha Pulley - The Hymn to Dionysus\n\nAntonia Hodgson- The Raven Scholar  \n +\nKatherine Addison - The Tomb of Dragons\n\nAmal El Mohtar  - The River has Roots\n\nJacqui Morris and Tamsin Abbott - Wild Folk  Wild Gods Rising - Podcast with the authors\n(WILD FOLK is being published anew by Chelsea Green in time for the Spring Equinox of 2026\nYou can order (or pre-order) here in the UK  https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wild-folk-tales-from-the-stones-jackie-morris/d934f63a50bf69fd\nand here in the US https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/828350/wild-folk-by-jackie-morris/ )\nRichard Morgan Altered Carbon \nBecky Chambers A Long Way to A Small Angry Planet \nPoetry: \n\nYou better be Lightning by Andrea Gibson\n\nA Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales by Joy Harjo (YouTube Interview on the Power of Poetry) \n\n\nNon Fiction  \n\nEconomic Space Agency (Dick Bryan, Jorge Lopez and Akseli Virtanen)  Protocols for Post Capitalist Expression \n\nRichard Schwartz and Thomas Hübl - Releasing our Burdens: A Guide to Healing Individual, Ancestral and Collective Trauma\n\nJulie Brams The Nature Embedded Mind: How the Way We Think Can Heal Our Planet and Ourselves\n\nTristan Gooley  How to Read a Tree: Clues and Patterns from Roots to Leaves \n\nJustine Afra Huxley and Anna Kovasna  Co-creating with a Living Intelligent Earth: Pathways towards Kincentric Leadership\n\nEliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies: The case against superintelligent AI\n\n\n\nPODCASTS\n\nNate Hagens The Great Simplification: If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies: How Artificial SuperIntelligence...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2fOWMRnTk9Jq1cMNEdZ2P6L9hSacKWpQNA4zTc1F1F4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jNjRl/ZmU1NTg1MWQ2NmFl/MzkzZGIzNjlhYTU4/OTM0NS5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}