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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

Sherylyn and Karen Dunstall, writing together as S. K. Dunstall, are joining us today to talk about their book Stars Uncharted. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this rip-roaring space opera, a ragtag band of explorers are out to make the biggest score in the galaxy. On this space jump, no one is who they seem . .

Lawrence M. Schoen is joining us today to talk about his novel The Moons of Barsk. Here’s the publisher’s description: Pizlo, the lonely young outcast and physically-challenged Fant, is now a teenager. He still believes he hears voices from the planet’s moons, imparting secret knowledge to him alone. And so embarks on a dangerous voyage to

Drew Williams is joining us today with his novel The Stars Now Unclaimed. Here’s the publisher’s description: Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her

Michael J. Martinez is joining us today to talk about his novel MJ-12: Endgame. Here’s the publisher’s description: A Cold War fought by superhuman agents reaches a boiling point in the thrilling finale to the MAJESTIC-12 historical thriller/superhero mash-up series from Michael J. Martinez. Josef Stalin is dead. In the aftermath, the Soviet Union is thrown

Andrea Phillips is joining us today to talk about Season 4 of the serial fiction Bookburners, written with Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Brian Francis Slattery, and Mur Lafferty. Here’s a description: Everything in the Bookburners’ lives falls into two categories: Before London and After London. Before London, things were strange, sure, but After London .

Shannon Eichorn is joining us today with her novel Rights of Use. Here is the description: In the 1960s, Project Blue Book assured America that no aliens visited its amber waves or shining seas. Thirty years later, Project Black Book knows better and has the flying saucers to prove it, but they still can’t stop the