The Night Spice Book Review

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Help Oscar and Neal explore The City We Became!

Come on, you apes, you wanna live forever?

He who controls the Night Spice controls the universe.

Join us as we seek treatment for our debilitating podcast neuroses!

Help Neal and Oscar poison their way to immortal divinity!

Let he among us who has not harvested meticulously raised cloned organs cast the first stone.

Night Spice breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.

Join Oscar and Neal as each sacrifices the other in pursuit of artistic perfection.

Will Neal and Oscar have to fight a thinly-premised duel over this book, or will it agree to marry one of them first?

Two hosts, two divergent ratings. Who is the hero, and who has betrayed his empire to the Russians?

Is Mrs. Bennet literature's greatest villain? Is Mr. Bingley just doing his best? Who knows?

After two seasons, Oscar and Neal go over their 24 review scores and make sure everything lines up.

Dust off your natural philosophy degrees and join us in spooky alternate history 1954.

Let Oscar and Neal initiate you into the family secret. It's something to do with...squid research?

No spoilers, but...we hope you like spiders.

Rendezvous with Neal and Oscar as we rendezvous with Rendezvous With Rama.

Do Oscar and Neal solve the Three-Body Problem, or do we have to cook ourselves alive in a pot of soup?

That’s right: it’s a weird book.

Oscar and Neal never claimed to be gods. But then, we never claimed not to be...

The Time Tombs have opened. Join Oscar and Neal as we embrace The Void Which Binds.

Neal and Oscar make their own pilgrimage to the Time Tombs in search of answers.

Neal and Oscar make the best of their diplomatic posting to the Teixcalaanli Empire.

Oscar and Neal navigate the emotional nightmare of being a millennial witch and inventor, respectively.

Jam your consciousness into our dead bodies as we review Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice.

Night Spice returns for season 2!

Neal and Oscar travel through the Black Gate to review Joan D. Vinge’s novel The Snow Queen.

While Oscar and Neal guide you through Susanna Clarke’s labyrinth, remember: the beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.

Night Spice lands on the forbidding world of Winter to explore its strange ways.

Night Spice travels in time to 1969 to experience Kurt Vonnegut’s classic anti-war novel. Then we travel back to 2020 to review it, thirteen years after the author’s death. So it goes.

Neal and Oscar unravel the intrigues and mysteries of The Curse of Chalion.

We love talking about language, and so does Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17.

Night Spice sets its sights on Robert Sawyer's sprawling space opera Starplex.

Neal and Oscar examine Theodore Sturgeon’s More Than Human, one of the first sci-fi books to be popularly recognized for literary merit. Spoilers: it’s weird.

Join the intrepid crew of the Night Spice Book Review for a review of Redshirts by John Scalzi.

Neal and Oscar tackle The Lathe of Heaven, a mind-bending story of a man whose dreams change reality so completely that nobody else even notices.

Neal and Oscar review Mary Robinette Kowal’s The Calculating Stars.

Night Spice kicks off with Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312.