PJ Manney is joining us today to talk about her novel, (CON)science. Here’s the publisher’s description: PJ Manney concludes her visionary Philip K. Dick Award–nominated series of a world at war, a virtual search for identity, and the future of humanity. Five years ago, bioengineer Peter Bernhardt spearheaded an innovation in nanotechnology that changed the […]
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Jeff Noon is joining us today to talk about his novel, Within Without: A Nyquist Mystery. Here’s the publisher’s description: From true weird fiction visionary Jeff Noon comes the fourth book in this Philip K. Dick Award-nominated mystery series. In the year 1960, private eye John Nyquist arrives in Delirium, a city of a million
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Nicole Kornher-Stace is joining us today to talk about her novel, Firebreak. Here’s the publisher’s description: One young woman faces down an all-powerful corporation in this all-too-near future science fiction debut that reads like a refreshing take on Ready Player One, with a heavy dose of Black Mirror. Ready Player One meets Cyberpunk 2077 in this eerily familiar future. “Twenty minutes
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Corry L. Lee is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Storm’s Betrayal. Here’s the publisher’s description: The intense, dramatic sequel to 2020’s break-out Russian-inspired epic Weave the Lightning. Lies. Treason. Magic. The great Stormhawk—Bourshkanya’s paranoid, fascist leader—is seemingly unkillable. But for the rebellion to succeed, he must die. Celka Prochazka uses magic in
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Elly Bangs is joining us today to talk about her novel, Unity. Here’s the publisher’s description: Evoking the gritty cyberpunk of Mad Max and the fluid idealism of Sense8, Unity is a spectacular new re-envisioning of humanity. Breakout author Elly Bangs has created an expressive, philosophical, science-fiction thriller that expands upon consciousness itself. Danae is not only herself. She is
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Bruce Sterling is joining us today to talk about his story collection, Robot Artists & Black Swans. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Godfather of Cyberpunk has emerged in this new collection of Italian-themed fantasy and science-fiction stories. Bruce Sterling now introduces us to his alter ego: Bruno Argento, the preeminent author of fantascienza. Sterling, writing as
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Katherine Cowley is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet. Here’s the publisher’s description: In Jane Austen’s revered Pride and Prejudice, Mary, the middle sister, is often passed over. Until now… Upon the death of her father, Mary Bennet’s life is thrown into turmoil. With no fortune
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Neve Maslakovic is joining us today to talk about her novel, All the Whys of Deliah’s Demise. Here’s the publisher’s description: From the author of Regarding Ducks and Universes, a new speculative whodunit set in an all-too-possible future where brand is everything. Top Ten. Top Hundred. Top Thousand… Scottie’s not in any of them. A rocky year
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Nick Martell is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Two-Faced Queen. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Hollows is gripped in unrest and on the brink of civil war as an insurgency of anarchists rise, and brother and sister vie for the throne in the second novel in the critically hailed Legacy of
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Marie Vibbert is joining us today to talk about her novel, Galactic Hellcats. Here’s the publisher’s description: Ki is a petty thief. Her best friend wills her his solo-flyer—call it a space motorcycle: temperamental, fast as hell, and expensive to maintain. Any reasonable person would sell it to get off the street, but Ki isn’t
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A.G. Slatter is joining us today to talk about her novel, All the Murmuring Bones. Here’s the publisher’s description: For fans of Naomi Novik and Katharine Arden, a dark gothic fairy tale from award-winning author Angela Slatter. Long ago Miren O’Malley’s family prospered due to a deal struck with the mer: safety for their ships
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E.J. Beaton is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Councillor. Here’s the publisher’s description: This Machiavellian fantasy follows a scholar’s quest to choose the next ruler of her nation amidst lies, conspiracy, and assassination When the death of Iron Queen Sarelin Brey fractures the realm of Elira, Lysande Prior, the palace scholar
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Gabriela Houston is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Second Bell. Here’s the publisher’s description: To the world you are an abomination; a monster with unholy abilities. You’re shunned and left to fend for yourself. Your only chance of survival is to tap into that dark potential – would you do it?
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S.B. Divya is joining us today to talk about her novel, MACHINEHOOD. Here’s the publisher’s description: From the Hugo Award nominee S.B. Divya, Zero Dark Thirty meets The Social Network in this science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near future dominated by the gig economy. Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is
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Emily R. King is joining us today to talk about her novel, Wings of Fury. Here’s the publisher’s description: From Emily R. King, author of the Hundredth Queen series, comes an epic novel of ancient Greece, Titans and treachery, and the women who dare to rise up against the tyranny of the Golden Age. My
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