Journal

Samit Basu is joining us today to talk about his novel, The City Inside. Here’s the publisher’s description: The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large—yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential […]

Veronica G. Henry is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Quarter Storm. Here’s the publisher’s description: A practitioner of Vodou must test the boundaries of her powers to solve a ritual murder in New Orleans and protect everything she holds sacred. Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her

Liz Michalski is joining us today to talk about her novel, Darling Girl. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this beautiful, grounded, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J. M. Barrie’s classic, to save her daughter’s life one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan—who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out

Jessi Honard and Marie Parks are joining us today to talk about their novel, Unrelenting. Here’s the publisher’s description: A glowing symbol painted on a crumbling wall.Sentient smoke that chokes and burns.An ancient magic, long hidden from the world. Bridget’s most important job has always been protecting her younger sister, Dahlia. But as adults, their

Kate Heartfield is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Embroidered Book. Here’s the publisher’s description: Brimming with romance, betrayal, and enchantment, The Embroidered Book reveals and reimagines a dazzling period of history as you have never seen it before. ‘Power is not something you are given. Power is something you take. When you

Oliver K. Langmead is joining us today to talk about his novel, Glitterati. Here’s the publisher’s description: A Clockwork Orange and RuPaul’s Drag Race meet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in this fabulous dystopian fable about fashion, family and feckless billionaires. Simone is one of the Glitterati, the elite living lives of luxury and leisure. Slave to the ever-changing tides

R.W.W. Green is joining us today to talk about his novel, Mercury Rising. Here’s the publisher’s description: Alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty  The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven

Tim Pratt is joining us today to talk about his novel, Prison of Sleep. Here’s the publisher’s description: After escaping the ruthless Lector, Zax Delatree has a new enemy to fight in the sequel to Doors of Sleep. Every time Zaxony Delatree falls asleep he wakes up on a new world. His life has turned into

Steven Kotler is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Devil’s Dictionary. Here’s the publisher’s description: Hard to say exactly when the human species fractured. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn, protagonist of Last Tango in Cyberspace, is the first of his kind—an empathy tracker, an emotional forecaster, with

Chris Panatier is joining us today to talk about his novel, Stringers. Here’s the publisher’s description: Knowledge can get you killed. Especially if you have no idea what it means. Ben is not a genius, but he can spout facts about animals and wristwatches with the best of experts. He just can’t explain how he knows any

Gideon Marcus is joining us today to talk about the anthology he edited, Rediscovery 2. Here’s the publisher’s description: Women write science fiction. They always have. Rediscovery: Science Fiction by Women (1953-1957) offers, quite simply, some of the best science fiction ever written: 20 amazing pieces, most of which haven’t been reprinted for decades…but should

Eastercons are fan-run British Science Fiction Convention events and have run most years since 1948. They begin on the Friday of the Easter weekend and finish on the Monday, with a variety of panels, talks, workshops, Kaffeeklatsches (small group chats with an author), book readings, quizzes, gaming, filking (sci-fi sing-alongs) and much, much more. This

Carsen Smith is joining us today to talk about the novel she co-wrote with James S. Murray, Area 51 Interns: Alien Summer. Here’s the publisher’s description: It’s the first day of summer vacation, and Viv Harlow just wants to relax with her friends at the beach before they all go to different high schools next