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Jo Miles is joining us today to talk about their novel, Warped State. Here’s the publisher’s description: One wants to fix the broken corporate system. The other wants to tear it all down. Jasper Wilder has a secret gift: the ability to see the relationships between people like physical bonds. Though his gift has served […]

Jon Evans is joining us today to talk about his novel, Exadelic. Here’s the publisher’s description: When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls “black magic,” it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity

Dwain Worrell is joining us today to talk about his novel, Androne. Here’s the publisher’s description: Humanity’s new war is an enigma, with an enemy threat beyond all imagination, in this near-future novel of mind-blowing adventure where the fate of the world rests in the choices of one ordinary soldier. In one terrifying event called

Valerie Valdes is joining us today to talk about her novel, Where Peace is Lost. Here’s the publisher’s description: Where peace is lost, may we find it. Five years ago, Kelana Gardavros lost everything in the war against the Pale empire. Now Kel Garda is just another refugee living on the edge of an isolated

Caye Marsh is joining us today to talk about her novel, Peace in the Sky. Here’s the publisher’s description: When Peace-in-the-Sky awakens as a captive with a young girl by her side, she only understands one thing: she must escape the tribe who captured her. A brutal head injury makes the past a swirling fog,

M.A. Carrisk is joining us today to talk about their novel, Labyrinth’s Heart. Here’s the publisher’s description: Ren came to Nadežra with a plan. She would pose as the long-lost daughter of the noble house Traementis. She would secure a fortune for herself and her sister. And she would vanish without a backward glance. She

Sara Codair is joining us today to talk about their novel, Junk Junction. Here’s the publisher’s description: Lonely non-binary 12-year-old Edi has collected antiques and ghost stories for as long as they can remember. Some old objects buzz with history, and when Edi touches them, they see fragments of the item’s story. But are the

Gideon Marcus is joining us today to talk about his novel, Hyvilma. Here’s the publisher’s description: Under attack! The flight back to Hyvilma should have been the easy part for the crew of the Majera–until a deadly ambush by pirates sends them reeling through hyperspace. Now getting to the planet in time is the only way

Julia Vee & Ken Babelle are joining us today to talk about their novel, Ebony Gate. Here’s the publisher’s description: Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she’s drenched in

Josh Rountree is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Legend of Charlie Fish. Here’s the publisher’s description: As always, Floyd Betts rides into town alone. He arrives for his father’s funeral, but he is returning to Galveston, Texas, with two orphaned siblings he has rescued. Nellie, who is descended from a long

Sheila Jenne is joining us today to talk about her novel, Black Sails to Sunward. Here’s the publisher’s description: In a world of frock coats, solar sails, and rigid class boundaries, Lucy joins the Martian Imperial Navy as a midshipman. Mars and Earth are at war, and Lucy hopes for quick promotion. But when she

Reese Hogan is joining us today to talk about his novel, My Heart is Human. Here’s the publisher’s description: It’s been nine years since the government banned all technology. So when Joel Lodowick, a young transgender father struggling to support his five year-old daughter, has an old bionic upload itself into his head, he is

Stephen Aryan is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Judas Blossom. Here’s the publisher’s description: 1260, Persia: Due to the efforts of the great Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire covers a vast portion of the known world. In the shadow of his grandfather, Hulagu, ruler of the Ilkhanate, is determined to create

Kemi Ashing-Giwa is joining us today to talk about her novel, Splinter In The Sky. Here’s the publisher’s description: The dust may have settled on the war between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but that means little to a lowly scribe like Enitan Ijebu. Following the Vaalbaran annexation of their moon Koriko,

Robin C.M. Duncan is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Carborundum Conundrum. Here’s the publisher’s description: Quirk and Moth have avoided killing each other long enough to solve another case. They decide on a local job next, and take up the search for a missing scientist. How could Quirk know this new