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Jennifer Lee Rossman is joining us today with her novel Jack Jetstark’s Intergalatic Freakshow. Here’s the publisher’s description: Jack Jetstark travels the universe to seek out the descendants of superpowered freaks created long ago by VesCorp scientists. The vibrations encoded in a particular song transform the members of Jack’s crew into a firebreather and an angel, […]

Martin Österdahl is joining us today with his novel Ask No Mercy. Here’s the publisher’s description: Global intrigue, espionage, and mystery from a thrilling new international voice. Max Anger is a man on the edge. The former fighter in an elite band of special-ops soldiers in Sweden, Anger is haunted by battle scars, a childhood spent

Leanna Renee Hieber is joining us today with her novel The Spectral City. Here’s the publisher’s description: In turn-of-the century New York City, the police have an off-the-books spiritual go-to when it comes to solving puzzling corporeal crimes . . . Her name is Eve Whitby, gifted medium and spearhead of The Ghost Precinct. When most

James Alan Gardner is joining us today with his novel They Promised Me the Gun Wasn’t Loaded. Here’s the publisher’s description: Award-winning author James Alan Gardner returns to the superheroic fantasy world of All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault with They Promised Me The Gun Wasn’t Loaded. Only days have passed since a freak accident granted four college

Cesar Torres is joining us today to talk about his novel 9 Lords of Night. Here’s the publisher’s description: Manhattan is about to be slammed by a Nor’easter in October, and just as the snow begins to fall, a killer begins his hunt. He writes symbols on his victims and removes their hearts. He quickly earns

Nancy Kress is joining us today with her novel Terran Tomorrow. Here’s the publisher’s description: Nancy Kress returns with Terran Tomorrow, the final book in the thrilling hard science fiction trilogy based on the Nebula Award–winning novella Yesterday’s Kin. The diplomatic mission from Earth to World ended in disaster, as the Earth scientists discovered that the Worlders were

Alexandra Rowland is joining us today with her debut novel A Conspiracy of Truths. Here’s the publisher’s description: A wrongfully imprisoned storyteller spins stories from his jail cell that just might have the power to save him—and take down his jailers too.  Arrested on accusations of witchcraft and treason, Chant finds himself trapped in a

Aliette de Bodard is joining us today with her novella In The Vanishers’ Palace. Here’s the publisher’s description: From the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen series comes a dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast. In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land… A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village’s debts and struggling to survive in a spirit

Beth Cato is joining us to talk about her novel Roar of Sky. Here is the publisher’s description: In this stunning conclusion to the acclaimed Blood of Earth trilogy—a thrilling alternate history laced with earth magic, fantastic creatures, and steampunk elements—geomancer Ingrid must find a way to use her extraordinary abilities to save her world from

Gene Doucette is joining us today to talk about his novel The Spaceship Next Door. Here’s the publisher’s description: When a spaceship lands in Sorrow Falls, a lovable and fearless small-town girl is the planet’s only hope for survival Three years ago, a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow

Peter Tieryas is joining us today to talk about his novel Mecha Samurai Empire. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Man in the High Castle meets Pacific Rim in this action-packed alternate history novel from the award-winning author of United States of Japan. Germany and Japan won WWII and control the U.S., and a young man has one dream: to become

Cheryl Low is joining us today to talk about her new book Detox In Letters, the second book in the Crowns & Ash series. Here’s the publisher’s description: Welcome to the Realm, where magic is your drug, your poison, and your only hope. An illness is spreading through the city, marking the sick in mysterious letters

Shawn Sheehy is joining us today with his post-apocolyptic pop up book, Beyond the Sixth Extinction. Here’s the publisher’s description: Elaborate pop-ups feature some wonderfully creepy creatures that just might dominate the ecosystem — and be essential to our planet’s survival — in an eerily realistic future world. Whether or not we know it, the sixth