On today's episode we are talking about dystopian stratified societies and "layered cities". Our tentpoles this week are An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon, the Snowpiercer movie (the original one), and “To the Victor, The Spoil” by Annakovsky.   What We’re Into Lately Black Water Sister by Zen Cho The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo The Devil Comes Courting by Courtney Milan Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone marigolds by colbub Avatar: The Last Airbender fic Rogue One fic Hikaru no Go Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett The Imperial Coroner The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard Other Stuff We Mentioned The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins “Dixit Dominus” by George Frideric Handel Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison The Testaments by Margaret Atwood The Duke Who Didn’t by Courtney Milan Dragon Ball Persona 5 Embers by Vathara The Untamed City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett Tam Lin by Pamela Dean Parasite Space Sweepers  This post by missellewoods The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins Lara Elena Donnelly’s Amberlough series  The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson Avatar The Unbroken  by C. L. Clark “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing” by Shiv Ramdas Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K. Le Guin "Victory Condition" by astolat Les Mis (musical) Les Miserables (disambiguation) For Next Time Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones   Content Warnings Sexual assault, racism, and slavery in An Unkindness of Ghosts Violence, child harm in Snowpiercer Sex trafficking, attempted suicide, and adult/minor relationship in “To the Victor, The Spoil” General warnings for discussion in the episode: the spectre of pedophilia, cannibalism, classism and prejudice (as well as all above listed warnings from the tentpoles)   Transcription The transcript of this episode can be found here. Thank you to our team of scribes for their great work!