Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Um, and last but not least, we're just gonna zip through, uh, a couple things, um, something I'm calling House of our Classics, and these are just books we've mentioned before, uh, plenty of times, but I wanna make sure that I mention them here just in case people are like, "But you didn't mention..." Okay, so TJ Klune's, uh, The House in the Cerulean Sea.

Both Mallory and I read this one, and Somewhere Beyond the Sea, I'm not sure if Mal has gotten to this one yet.

But these are, again, sort of like the Becky Chambers book I mentioned, the sci-fi book I mentioned.

These are incredibly cozy.

He-

That it's not, not a bummer.

He's, um, so he, I think his, it, some of his most famous books are, uh, The House in the Cerulean Sea, and then Somewhere Beyond the Sea, which is sort of the sequel of it, and both of those are just incredibly cozy.

It's sort of like an almost an X-Men story, where it's a, you know, a, a school for gifted, strange, unusual children, uh, w- with this fantastical element, but there is this, like, queer love story at the center of it, and there is just this incredibly strong found family element to it.

So when you talk about it in the acknowledgements, was this like a little note in another manuscript?

Yeah, this was in Somewhere Beyond the Sea, the sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea.

I was editing it back in 2023, ahead of its release in the fall of 2024.

And there's a line in there where Lucy is having a confrontation with somebody and uh lucy my my lovely antichrist and he tells he tells that person your your insides are like a black hole nothing there's no light nothing can escape from that and my dad's meaning arthur and linus told me that you can't see a black hole with the naked eye and as any good editor does when we're not knowledgeable about something she looked it up and put it in and then she put a little note the very end of her explanation that said did you know that there's a one in a a wandering black hole could make its way to our galaxy.