In 2013, I had a work ruled ineligible by the Hugo Award committee and found out at the party after the Hugos. The reason was listed with the nominations — they thought that an audiobook didn’t count as a novella. When I wrote to them to ask for clarification, I received an answer. I didn’t […]
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Grant Price is joining us today to talk about his novel, Pacific State. Here’s the publisher’s description: On the streets of Berlin all morals can be bought for a price, and Owen Resler sold his long ago. Once an underground dissenter, now a corporate drone, he spends his days reluctantly manipulating data for Big Pharma. Across
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Sarah Day is joining us today to talk about her novella, Greyhowler. Here’s the publisher’s description: Rhia is a Courier, a transient messenger who freely travels the land without calling any town or port home. The job suits her, for in a land ruled by the Temple, it is difficult to find your own way,
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I read some truly wonderful books in 2023, and I want to share them (and my reviews!) with you. When you click on a book below, it will take you to Bookshop.org, so you can support both fabulous authors and independent bookstores. Please note, these are affiliate links. It does not impact your cost, and
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Note: If you’d prefer to receive this monthly update in your email inbox (along with additional content, like my cat’s latest conversations), you can sign up for my newsletter here. With every turning of the calendar, there’s an impulse for creating new goals, resolutions, and habits. This year, I’ve decided to set aside the desire
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Each month Mary Robinette teaches new material for her Patreon members at the Livestreaming Class level (and above). This is the lesson plan for 2024. When you join, you unlock recordings of every class she has taught for the past five years, which is 70+ hours of content. Typically, classes are help on the last
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Howard Andrew Jones is joining us today to talk about his novel, The City of Marble and Blood. Here’s the publisher’s description: Gladiators, legionnaires, scheming sorcerers, and dark gods had battered Hanuvar but not stopped him. The great Volani general now returns to the land of his enemies! Hanuvar had pledged to find the remnants
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Note: If you’d prefer to receive this monthly update in your email inbox (along with additional content, like my cat’s latest conversations), you can sign up for my newsletter here. It’s time for the last update of the year, and as I write this I can see a small herd of deer picking their way
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Alvaro Zinos-Amaro is joining us today to talk about his biography, Being Michael Swanwick. Here’s the publisher’s description: In 2001, Michael Swanwick published the book-length interview Being Gardner Dozois. Now Swanwick himself becomes the subject of inquiry. During a year of conversations, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg) set about discussing with
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Naomi Kritzer is joining us today to talk about her novel, Liberty’s Daughter. Here’s the publisher’s description: Beck Garrison lives on a seastead – an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, assembled by libertarian separatists a generation ago. She’s grown up comfortable and sheltered, but starts doing odd jobs for pocket money. To
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Caroline Hardaker is joining us today to talk about her novel, Mothtown Here’s the publisher’s description: Caroline Hardaker is a poet, librettist, and novelist from the northeast of England. She has published two collections of poetry, and two literary novels; Composite Creatures and Mothtown. Her work has appeared worldwide in print, on BBC radio, and
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Sharon Shinn is joining us today to talk about her novel, Whispering Wood. Here’s the publisher’s description: The long-awaited new book in the Elemental Blessings series! Valentina Serlast has reluctantly traveled to the royal city to witness her brother Darien be crowned the king of Welce. A hunti woman with an affinity for the forest,
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MV Melcer is joining us today to talk about her novel, Refractions. Here’s the publisher’s description: A DISTANT COLONY SHROUDED IN SILENCE.In the vast expanse of space, Bethesda – humanity’s first extra-solar colony and home to a thriving population of adults and children – has ceased all communication with Earth. A DEADLY RESCUE MISSION.Nathalie Hart
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Patrick Swenson is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Ultra Long Goodbye. Here’s the publisher’s description: Book Three of the Union of Worlds Dave Crowell and his partner Tem Forno take on a case to help a retired Envoy find someone from Crowell’s immediate past. The connection to the previous Ultra scares
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