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Kameron Hurley is joining us today with her novel Empire Ascendant. Here’s the publisher’s description: Loyalties are tested when worlds collide… Every two thousand years, the dark star Oma appears in the sky, bringing with it a tide of death and destruction. And those who survive must contend with friends and enemies newly imbued with violent […]

Minerva Zimmerman is joining us today with her novel Take On Me. Here’s the publisher’s description: Turning someone you don’t know into a vampire probably violates the Hippocratic oath. But Alex wasn’t really thinking about that when he found a girl bleeding out in his shower. Being turned into a vampire isn’t as cool as it

Ilana C. Myer is joining us today with her Last Song Before Night. Here’s the publisher’s description: A high fantasy following a young woman’s defiance of her culture as she undertakes a dangerous quest to restore her world’s lost magic in Ilana C. Myer’s Last Song Before Night. Her name was Kimbralin Amaristoth: sister to a

Seb Doubinsky is joining us today with his novel The Song of Synth. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Song of Synth welcomes readers into a world of mind-warping drugs, conspiracy, and a hero who can’t distinguish reality half the time. Synth is a drug able to induce hallucinations indistinguishable from reality. But it’s brand new, highly

Tom Toner is joining us today with his novel The Promise of the Child. Here’s the publisher’s description: It is the 147th century. In the radically advanced post-human worlds of the Amaranthine Firmament, there is a contender to the Immortal throne: Aaron the Long-Life, the Pretender, a man who is not quite a man. In the

Jason Kirk is joining us today with his story in verse, “The Guardian from the Sea,” from the anthology Phantasma: Stories. Here’s the publisher’s description: An eclectic collection of speculative short stories by Anne Charnock (2013 Philip K. Dick Award finalist), Jodi McIsaac (A Cure for Madness, the Thin Veil series), Kate Maruyama (Harrowgate), Roberta

Kent Davis is joining us today with his novel A Riddle in Ruby. Here’s the publisher’s description: Ruby is a thief-in-training and a keeper of secrets—ones she doesn’t even know herself. A Riddle in Ruby is the first book in a witty and fast-paced fantasy-adventure trilogy for fans for Jonathan Stroud, Septimus Heap, and The Very Nearly

William Alexander is joining us today with his novel Nomad. Here’s the publisher’s description: Gabe Fuentes is in a race against time—and aliens—in this intergalactic sequel to Ambassador, which Booklist called “an exciting sci-fi adventure, perceptively exploring what it means to be alien,” from National Book Award winner William Alexander. When we last left Earth’s Ambassador, Gabe

Gerrard Cowan is joining us today with his novel The Machinery. Here’s the publisher’s description: For ten millennia, the leaders of the Overland have been Selected by the Machinery, an omnipotent machine gifted to their world in darker days. The city has thrived in arts, science and war, crushing all enemies and expanding to encompass the entire

Mel Odom is joining us today with his novel Guerilla. Here’s the publisher’s description: He’s behind enemy lines. But those lines are shifting beneath his feet. In the jungles of Makaum, the Terran military is locked in a critical standoff over the planet’s resources with the hostile Phrenorians, even as both species maintain uneasy relations with the

Fran Wilde is joining us today with her novel Updraft. Here’s the publisher’s description: In a city of living bone rising high above the clouds, where danger hides in the wind and the ground is lost to legend, a young woman must expose a dangerous secret to save everyone she loves. Welcome to a world of wind

Michi Trota is joining us today to talk about Uncanny Magazine Year Two: The Return of the Space Unicorn Kickstarter. Here’s the Kickstarter description: Last year, three-time Hugo Award winner Lynne M. Thomas & three-time Hugo Award finalist Michael Damian Thomas ran the Uncanny Magazine Year One Kickstarter. We promised to bring you stunning cover art,

Stina Leicht is joining us today with her novel Cold Iron. Here’s the publisher’s description: Fraternal twins Nels and Suvi move beyond their royal heritage and into military and magical dominion in this flintlock epic fantasy debut from a two-time Campbell Award finalist. Prince Nels is the scholarly runt of the ancient Kainen royal family of

David Nabhan is joining us today with his novel The Pilots of Borealis. Here’s the publisher’s description: Top Gun heads to outer space in this throwback to the classic science fiction of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. Strapped in to artificial wings spanning twenty-five feet across, your arms push a tenth of your body weight with each

Aliette de Bodard is joining us today with her novel The House of Shattered Wings. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the late twentieth century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins, the aftermath of a Great War between arcane powers. The Grand Magasins have been reduced to piles of debris, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell,