My Favorite Bit

Martin Cahill is joining us today to talk about his novel, Audition for the Fox. Here’s the publisher’s description: Nesi is desperate to earn the patronage of one of the Ninety-Nine Pillars of Heaven. As a child with godly blood in her, if she cannot earn a divine chaperone, she will never be allowed to […]

Richard Wolinsky is joining us today to talk about his collection of interviews. Here’s the publisher’s description: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends Richard Wolinsky, editor “Amazing, astounding, fantastic – and ingeniously organized and edited.”–Jonathan Lethem In these highly-candid radio interviews, more than fifty legendary, larger-than-life personalities trade anecdotes about

Gary Jackson is joining us today to talk about his novel, Small Lives. Here’s the publisher’s description: Poetry, yes. Superheroes, yes. This is a graphic novel in verse. Gary Jackson’s work is inspired by Afro-futurism. small lives renders a graphic novel in verse form. Jackson creates his own metropolis, featuring original and remixed superheroes who are

P.S.C. Willis is joining us today to talk about their novel, Crying out for Magic. Here’s the publisher’s description: A meet-cute across worlds! Draven Montrose’s world, Galdorsfarne, is like a soggy firework: so much potential, so little sparkle. Magic is running out, and so are his dating options. Whilst he should be grateful for a

Josh Rountree is joining us today to talk about his novel, Summer in the House of the Departed. Here’s the publisher’s description: This is a sometime place, not an all the time place… Summer 1981: Brady’s grandmother vanishes-along with an entire West Texas town. There’s no explanation, except those that don’t hold any logic. Brady

William Alexander is joining us today to talk about his novel, Sunward. Here’s the publisher’s description: A cozy debut science fiction novel by National Book Award–winning writer William Alexander, this story of found family follows a planetary courier training adolescent androids in a solar system grappling with interplanetary conflict after a devastating explosion on Earth’s

Allee Mead is joining us today to talk about her novel, Isaac. Here’s the publisher’s description: When Eleanor Lane, estranged from her family, makes the drive to her deceased father’s house to arrange his funeral, she discovers Isaac, a care-bot. Isaac had been caring for her father ever since the incident six years ago, when

Deva Fagan is joining us today to talk about her novel, House of Dusk Here’s the publisher’s description: Ten years ago, Sephre left behind her life as a war hero and took holy vows to seek redemption for her crimes, wielding the flames of the Phoenix to purify the dead. But as corpses rise, a

Allister Thompson is joining us today to talk about his novel, Birch and Jay. Here’s the publisher’s description: Decades after the world was levelled by the effects of human-made climate change, the scattered remnants of humanity have begun to pull themselves together. Birch and Jay are a young couple living in a small, idyllic community

Athena Giles is joining us today to talk about their novel, Waves Take Your Bones. Here’s the publisher’s description: The dead rise and the sea is calling. Tallis and Finn, simple farmers, find their quiet village overrun by shriekers, a horde of undead revenants. After a devastating attack and heartbreaking losses, they must flee the

Jason Sanford is joining us today to talk about his novel, We Who Hunt Alexanders. Here’s the publisher’s description: Amelia is a ripper, a monster who feeds on violent people who have so thoroughly forsaken love that they’ve burned away their souls. Unseen and unnoticed by most of society and living as both hunter and

Marie Vibbert is joining us today to talk about her novel, Andrei and the Hellcats. Here’s the publisher’s description: Only the Galactic Hellcats can help Andrei, a charming, sex-positive robot, rescue his sister. This book promises: Action! Adventure! Fashion sense! Solo-flyers! Wit! Don’t dare put down this book or all might be lost… as in,

Jane Mondrup is joining us today to talk about her novel, Zoi. Here’s the publisher’s description: At the age of five, Amira watched footage of the first zoi specimen arriving in our solar system, and she became instantly fascinated with the huge, cell-like creature floating among the stars. Decades later, she and three other astronauts

Aimee Ogden is joining us today to talk about her novel, Starstruck. Here’s the publisher’s description: Prish has always been a radish who knows what she’s about; chiefly, her wife, Alsing, a literal and figurative fox. They’ve woven together a cozy life around welcoming other starstruck beings into the world-plants and animals ensouled by a