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Luke Burrage
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Juggler, performer, videographer, podcaster, organiser.
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Juggling Podcast 070 - Top 40 Jugglers of 2025 and the Future

Luke and Juliane talk about the new Top 40 Jugglers website, 2025 results, & the Top 40 Jugglers Hall of Fame.

Website: lukeburrage.com/top40/

Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/149615...
YouTube: youtu.be/GHGMOWOO_R8

#juggling #podcast
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February 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke tells Juliane about the disappointing romance in The Everlasting, the romantasy novel by Alix E Harrow.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2409

#booksky #sciencefiction #bookreview #podcast
Luke is pointing and isn't impressed.
January 28, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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The Top 40 Jugglers 0f 2025 - The Full Countdown!!!

youtu.be/ZIMXiUFkAC4

The full chart in one vid. Enjoy!

Check out the final 2025 chart here: lukeburrage.com/top40/year/2...

Thanks to my Patreons for supporting the Top 40 Jugglers: patreon.com/lukeburrage

#top40jugglers #juggling
YouTube thumbnail showing Spencer Androli and Fusion Showteam.
January 10, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke revisits Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie to see how it holds up as an early example of the awards-dominating science fiction movement variously known as Tor Wave or Squeecore.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2401

#booksky #sciencefiction #bookreview #podcast
Luke is pointing at the book and isn't sad.
January 6, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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In 2025 I juggled in 32 countries!

Check out the video:
youtu.be/uhK8JWkxlsQ

I visited/juggled in these five countries for the first time in 2025:
Lithuania 🇱🇹
Cyprus 🇨🇾
Tunisia 🇹🇳
Honduras 🇭🇳
Belize 🇧🇿

My running total is now 141 countries visited.

#juggling #internationaljuggler
YouTube thumbnail of International juggler 2025.
December 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke REMOVES Startide Rising by David Brin from the SFBRP Must-Read List! Why? Listen to find out!

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2396

#booksky #sciencefiction #bookreview #podcast
Luke is pointing and frowning.
December 27, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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New SFBRP!!!

Juliane begins the podcast by wondering whether When There Are Wolves Again by E J Swift is even science fiction, and Luke has strong thoughts on that and other questions.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2393

#booksky #sciencefiction #bookreview #podcast
Both Luke and Juliane are smiling while pointing at this book.
December 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke re-reads The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken to see if it keeps its place on the SFBRP Must-Read list.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2390

#booksky #sciencefiction #bookreview #podcast
Luke is pointing at the book and smiling.
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke talks to Juliane about the first two novels in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Tyrant Philosophers fantasy series, City of Last Chances and House of Open Wounds.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2387

#booksky #bookreview #podcast
Luke is pointing and smiling.
November 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Juggling Podcast 068 - Epiphanies and Realisations

Luke and Juliane share sudden realisations about juggling technique, juggling culture, and life as professional artists.

Listen on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/142739...

Listen on YouTube: youtu.be/Lp3_vtWI1F8

#juggling #podcast
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November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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New SFBRP!!

Luke tells Juliane about a mostly-forgotten Nebula Award winning novel from 1971, A Time of Changes by Robert Silverberg, and how it's VERY IMPORTANT that the main character struggles with premature ejaculation.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2383

#booksky #sciencefiction #bookreview #podcast
Luke is pointing and frowning, but also smiling, so it can't be all bad.
November 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Just how spacey is Kevin Spacey? His character claimed to be an alien in K-PAX, and he did a voice in the lunar base movie Moon (2009).

With only 2 space movies out of 92 credits, Kevin is only about 2.2% spacey.

Sad.
October 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke and Juliane talk about One Day All This Will Be Yours, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s take on how one might lose a time war.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2379

#booksky
Luke and Juliane are smiling at the book.
October 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke is very excited about new directions for science fiction as a genre, so talks up the promise of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor… but then explains to Juliane why he ultimately didn't make it to the end of the novel.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2376

#booksky
Luke is frowning, unfortunately.
September 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke and Juliane revisit The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers and discuss why writing a cozy story is incompatible with writing a traditionally good science fiction novel.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2371

#booksky #spaceopera #cozy
Luke and Juliane holding the book but neither of them are frowning so does that mean anything?
September 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Juggling Podcast 067 - A Summer of Juggling

Luke and Juliane catch up on Your Time to Shine, the European Juggling Convention, and organising Fight Night Combat using the new website.

Listen on Patreon:
www.patreon.com/posts/137853...

Or on YouTube:
youtu.be/K-N0QQy02hc

#juggling #podcast
Podcast art.
September 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke and Juliane discuss Solaris by Stanisław Lem. Trigger Warning: Luke has "explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers."

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2366
Luke is pointing but has his eyebrows raised.
July 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke reviews The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, the Goodreads Winner for Readers' Favorite Science Fiction of 2024, which means it isn’t actually good science fiction but is pretty competent at the other things it’s trying to be.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2358

#booksky
Luke is pointing at the book but isn't really frowning but isn't clearly smiling either.
June 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke rereads Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card to see if it should be on the SFBRP Must-Read List, and with Juliane discusses how Some Desperate Glory fails to live up to its predecessors.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2351

#booksky
Pointing and smiling.
June 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke tells Juliane about Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh, a novel that started strong but left him disappointed and annoyed. Also this won the best novel Hugo award, so they talk about that too.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2348

#booksky
Luke is pointing at the book and frowning.
June 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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New SFBRP!!!

Part 3 of our discussion of The Lord of the Rings, focusing on The Return of the King, what it means to be a good man or a good king, lessons learned by the hobbits and us during their adventures, and a final review of the reading experience.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2345

#booksky
Luke is pointing at the book and smiling. And Juliane is smiling.
May 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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New SFBRP!!!

The Two Towers and other towers.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2342

Part 2 of Luke and Juliane’s discussion of The Lord of the Rings, focusing on The Two Towers, the power of wizards, action vs fights vs battles vs sieges, a diversion on Ents, and who is tempted by the One Ring.

#booksky
Luke and Juliane with thumbs up.
May 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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New SFBRP!!!

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2338

Part 1 of our discussion of The Lord of the Rings, the audiobook performance by Andy Serkis, appreciation for the first movie in the trilogy, how Tom Bombadil can be so annoying, and Luke takes a stab at the question “what even are elves?”

#booksky
Luke and Juliane smiling and holding up an iPhone showing the audiobook cover art.
May 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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New SFBRP!!!

Luke delves into The Silmarillion for the first time, and talks to Juliane about myth creation, map confusion, and the genealogy of a silver tree.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2334

#booksky #fantasy #book #review #podcast
Pointing and smiling at the Silmarillion.
April 1, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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New SFBRP!!!

Juliane finished Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky and so Luke joins her to discuss academic politics, totalitarian politics, aliens, and clay.

www.sfbrp.com/archives/2331

#booksky #sciencefiction #bookreview #podcast
Luke and Juliane are both smiling.
March 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM