{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fa638a357-39dc-472f-9edf-2cb8cb8bab0b","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"19 \u00b7 Orson Scott Card's Gay Razzmatazz\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/a638a357-39dc-472f-9edf-2cb8cb8bab0b\"></iframe>","title":"19 \u00b7 Orson Scott Card's Gay Razzmatazz","description":"\"In a world where science and engineering rule while magic merely serves, an industrialist aristocrat\u2019s genius heir finds himself drawn to the allure of a novice kitchen-wizard.\"\r\nYoung love blossoms in a world aswirl with conflicts both magical and mundane in an alternate Victorian era where Europe's class system changes under the influx of magical innovations from the flourishing African nations.\r\nAll that fancy philosophy aside, a cover like this promises certain salacious same-sex shenanigans, and famed marriage-equality activist O. S. Card's saucy gay romance novel certainly delivers on its promise!\r\nK rates this book a B on the turgidity scale. Khaki crafts some convincing stilts.\r\nBookmarked passages: More feathers for Phase Four, red ink protocol, Farscape slash fiction,\u00a0Alvin Maker: The Sorceror-Slut, award-losing author, penis-equipped danders,\u00a0David Bowie's ball handling, Chang & Eng, Brian Blessed, non-colonial Victorian era, cantrip parlors and back-alley tech clubs, recharging at the sex-garden, Orson Scott Card has a \"type\", bilingual street signs, Mormon multilingual WordPerfect, Stirling engines, popular polyandry, wizard unions, seizing the means of conjuration, Chuck Tingle's Brexit allegory, Bloise Idaho, a bit of a shit-bird.\r\nSelected quotes:\r\n\"The gay sex does get in the way of the cooking. \u2013 Story of my life, really.\"\r\n\"Whatever comes after post-modernism, that's Chuck Tingle.\"\r\n\"A pre-shaprd tip is pressed into the subject at a pre-set force...\"\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s like the fluffer of modern technology.\u201d\r\n\"can't wait to get into his magic sack!\"\r\n\"Their eyes 'throbbed' at each other \u2014 that was a gross one!\"\r\n\u201cAnd he\u2019s into reciprocation, which I like.\u201d\r\n\u201cSo we have cat-fur and glass rods \u2013 and a lot of other rods being rubbed here, and a lot of magical power is released in the process!\u201d\r\nFind CoverMyAssCast on Twitter,\u00a0Gmail\u00a0and www.covermyasscast.com.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/85df82db-0657-4ec4-a39c-ec8f0f31593b/38a964d5e25380.jpg"}