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Gena Showalter is joining us today with her novel Lifeblood. Here’s the publisher’s description: “My Firstlife is over, but my Everlife is only now beginning.”  With her last living breath, Tenley “Ten” Lockwood made her choice and picked her realm in the Everlife. Now, as the war between Troika and Myriad rages, she must face the […]

Mishell Baker is joining us today with her novel Phantom Pains. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the second book to the “exciting, inventive, and brilliantly plotted” (Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author) Borderline, Millie unwillingly returns to the Arcadia Project when an impossible and deadly situation pulls her back in. Four months ago, Millie left

Erika Lewis is joining us today with her novel Game of Shadows. Here’s the publisher’s description: A young man plagued by the ability to see ghosts races to save the mythological land of Tara from a terrible fate in Erika Lewis’s stunning debut, Game of Shadows. Thousands of years ago in Ireland, an ancient race fought

Maurice Broaddus is joining us today with his collection The Voices of Martyrs. Here’s the publisher’s description: We are a collection of voices, the assembled history of the many voices that have spoken into our lives and shaped us. Voices of the past, voices of the present, and voices of the future. There is an African

Meg Elison is joining us today with her novel The Book of Etta. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the gripping sequel to the Philip K. Dick Award-winning novel The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, one woman undertakes a desperate journey to rescue the future. Etta comes from Nowhere, a village of survivors of the great plague

Patricia Burroughs is joining us today with her short story anthology Debris & Detritus: The Lesser Greek Gods Running Amok. Here’s the publisher’s description: “Debris and Detritus, the lesser-known Greek gods…* These words launched over a dozen alternate realities and histories, invaded existing universes, and even inspired a book or two with Debris and Detritus running

Jacqueline Carey is joining us today with her novel Miranda and Caliban. Here’s the publisher’s description: A lovely girl grows up in isolation where her father, a powerful magus, has spirited them to in order to keep them safe. We all know the tale of Prospero’s quest for revenge, but what of Miranda? Or Caliban, the

Kameron Hurley is joining us today with her novel The Stars are Legion. Here’s the publisher’s description: Somewhere on the outer rim of the universe, a mass of decaying world-ships known as the Legion is traveling in the seams between the stars. For generations, a war for control of the Legion has been waged, with no clear resolution.

Lara Elena Donnelly is joining us today with her novel Amberlough. Here’s the publisher’s description: From author Lara Elena Donnelly, a debut spy thriller as a gay double-agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coup Trust no one with anything – especially in Amberlough City. Covert agent Cyril DePaul

Mur Lafferty is joining us today to talk about Bookburners. Here’s the publisher’s description: The critically acclaimed urban fantasy about a secret team of agents that hunts down dangerous books containing deadly magic—previously released serially online by Serial Box, now available in print for the first time! Magic is real, and hungry. It’s trapped in ancient

Fonda Lee is joining us today with her novel Exo. Here’s the publisher’s description: It’s been a century of peace since Earth became a colony of an alien race with far reaches into the galaxy. Some die-hard extremists still oppose alien rule on Earth, but Donovan Reyes isn’t one of them. His dad holds the prestigious position of

Watts Martin is joining us today with his novel Kismet. Here’s the publisher’s description: The River: a hodgepodge of arcologies and platforms in a band around Ceres full of dreamers, utopians, corporatists and transformed humans, from those with simple biomods to the exotic alien xenos and the totemics, remade with animal aspects. Gail Simmons, an itinerant

Tim Lees is joining us today with his novel Steal the Lightning. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the newest Field Ops adventure, god hunter Chris Copeland must track down an enigmatic figure distributing shards of deities to unwitting citizens across the country Chris Copeland has a bizarre job, seeking out gods to convert into energy, but when

Laura Anne Gilman is joining us today with her novel The Cold Eye. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the anticipated sequel to Silver on the Road, Isobel is riding circuit through the Territory as the Devil’s Left Hand. But when she responds to a natural disaster, she learns the limits of her power and the growing

Jaym Gates is joining us today with her anthology Upside Down. Here’s the publisher’s description: Upside Down: Inverted Tropes in Storytelling is an anthology of short stories, poetry, and essays edited by Monica Valentinelli and Jaym Gates. Over two dozen authors, ranging from NYT-bestsellers and award winners to debut writers, chose a tired trope or cliche