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Cory Doctorow is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Bezzle. Here’s the publisher’s description: New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow’s The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares. The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top […]

Jordan Werner is joining us today to talk about his book, The Witch and the Ostrich. Here’s the publisher’s description: A newspaper-critic witch and a necromancer warlord turned into an ostrich scrounge for survival in the backwaters of an empire. If that sounds like the setup to a joke, Quin might agree with you. Too

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro is joining us today to talk about his novel, Equimedian. Here’s the publisher’s description: Jason Velez lives a mundane existence installing EmuX virtual reality machines-scraping together just enough money to pay for his increasingly unsustainable science fiction collection-when he begins having strange dreams. He knows he has to make some personal changes if

Nathan Tavares is joining us today to talk about his novel, Welcome to Forever. Here’s the publisher’s description: A sweeping, psychedelic romance of two men caught in a looping world of artificial realities, edited memories, secretive cabals and conspiracies to push humanity to the next step in its evolution. For fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and

Grant Price is joining us today to talk about his novel, Pacific State. Here’s the publisher’s description: On the streets of Berlin all morals can be bought for a price, and Owen Resler sold his long ago. Once an underground dissenter, now a corporate drone, he spends his days reluctantly manipulating data for Big Pharma. Across

Sarah Day is joining us today to talk about her novella, Greyhowler. Here’s the publisher’s description: Rhia is a Courier, a transient messenger who freely travels the land without calling any town or port home. The job suits her, for in a land ruled by the Temple, it is difficult to find your own way,

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro is joining us today to talk about his biography, Being Michael Swanwick. Here’s the publisher’s description: In 2001, Michael Swanwick published the book-length interview Being Gardner Dozois. Now Swanwick himself becomes the subject of inquiry. During a year of conversations, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg) set about discussing with

Naomi Kritzer is joining us today to talk about her novel, Liberty’s Daughter. Here’s the publisher’s description: Beck Garrison lives on a seastead – an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, assembled by libertarian separatists a generation ago. She’s grown up comfortable and sheltered, but starts doing odd jobs for pocket money. To

Caroline Hardaker is joining us today to talk about her novel, Mothtown Here’s the publisher’s description: Caroline Hardaker is a poet, librettist, and novelist from the northeast of England. She has published two collections of poetry, and two literary novels; Composite Creatures and Mothtown. Her work has appeared worldwide in print, on BBC radio, and

MV Melcer is joining us today to talk about her novel, Refractions. Here’s the publisher’s description: A DISTANT COLONY SHROUDED IN SILENCE.In the vast expanse of space, Bethesda – humanity’s first extra-solar colony and home to a thriving population of adults and children – has ceased all communication with Earth. A DEADLY RESCUE MISSION.Nathalie Hart