Each encounter and every experience serve to add another facet to the girl, as she discovers who she is and where she belongs. Spear follows a girl without a name, one whose quest for an identity leads her to Caer Leon (Camelot), to The Lady of the Lake, and beyond. Lyrical with a fairy-tale cadence, Spear is the adult version of the Arthurian tales I loved as a child. Nicola Griffith’s Spear is a spellbinding vision of the Camelot we’ve longed for, a Camelot that belongs to us all. The legendary author of Hild returns with an unforgettable hero and a queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era. On her adventures, she will steal the hearts of beautiful women, fight warriors and sorcerers, and make a place to call home. Aflame with determination, she begins a journey of magic and mystery, love, lust and fights to death. With her stolen hunting spear and mended armour, she is an unlikely hero, not a chosen one, but one who forges her own bright path. So, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and sets out on her bony gelding for Caer Leon. And when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she decides her future lies at his court. She grows up in the wild wood, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake drift to her on the spring breeze, scented with promise. We’re still hanging in there on Twitter: You can also find Andi and Lise on Instagram, posting fun photos, same handles: LGO is available on tons of platforms please like and subscribe.She left all she knew to find who she could be. The episodes are about 22 minutes long without commercials, and she’s ended up learning a lot and making it a family affair. Andi shouts-out the ol’ skool show Forensic Files which she’s watching on Hulu. Adapted from the first two books in the Lockwood and Co. Shout-outs: Lise started watching the Netflix series Lockwood and Co., about teen ghosthunters/ghost battlers in a Britain overrun by spirits that can kill with a touch.

List of this year’s Nebula finalists HERE. If, like them, you grew up on Arthurian/Camelot stories, Spear is like coming home to the people you wanted and needed to see in those tales. Andi and Lise discuss and deeply appreciate multiple award-winning spec fic writer Nicola Griffith’s novel Spear (current Nebula finalist!)-a queer Arthurian story that will bring you right into the era from a perspective you didn’t know you absolutely needed.

Spear by Nicola Griffith