Worldcon, or the World Science Fiction Convention, is the annual gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans, writers, artists, musicians and other creators from across the globe. First held in New York City in 1939, Worldcon moves around the globe, held in a different city and organized by a different volunteer organization each year. This …
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Elijah Kinch Spector is joining us today to talk about his novel, Kalyna the Soothsayer. Here’s the publisher’s description: Kalyna’s family has had the Gift for generations: the ability to see and predict the future. For decades, they have traveled around the four connected kingdoms of the Tetrarchia—one country with four monarchs—selling their services as …
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Victor Manibo is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Sleepless. Here’s the publisher’s description: Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he can’t sleep, nor does he need to. When his boss dies on the eve of a controversial corporate takeover, Jamie doesn’t buy the too-convenient explanation of suicide, and launches an investigation of …
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R.A. Salvatore is joining us today to talk about his novel, Glacier’s Edge. Here’s the publisher’s description: There’s a lot that Jarlaxle doesn’t know: is he the lone survivor of the raid on the slaad fortress, can he even find a way to get out, and beyond his immediate predicament, could he possibly escape the …
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Kowal’s comedy-of-manners SF mystery is a rollicking case of knowing when to throw decorum out the window in order to get results. Library Journal on The Spare Man Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between the Moon and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and …
Naseem Jamnia is joining us today to talk about their novel, The Bruising of Qilwa. Here’s the publisher’s description: In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of blood magic discovers a strange disease that causes political rifts in their new homeland. Persian-American author Naseem Jamnia has crafted a …
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Jim C. Hines is joining us today to talk about his novel, Terminal Peace. Here’s the publisher’s description: The third and final book of the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse follows a group of unlikely heroes trying to save the galaxy from a zombie plague. Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos and her team were trained to clean spaceships. …
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Alex White is joining us today to talk about their novel, August Kitko and the Mechas From Space. Here’s the publisher’s description: When an army of giant robot AIs threatens to devastate Earth, a virtuoso pianist becomes humanity’s last hope in this bold, lightning-paced, technicolor new space opera series from the author of A Big Ship …
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Jason Sizemore is joining us today to talk about the annual Kickstarter for Apex Magazine. Apex Magazine is an online zine of fantastical fiction. We publish short stories filled with marrow and passion, works that are twisted, strange, and beautiful. Creations where secret places and dreams are put on display. We publish in two forms: an every-other-month eBook issue and …
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W.P. Wiles is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Last Blade Priest. Here’s the publisher’s description: Inar is Master Builder for the Kingdom of Mishig-Tenh. Life is hard after the Kingdom lost the war against the League of Free Cities. Doubly so since his father betrayed the King and paid the ultimate …
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Welcome to August! I’m currently fostering five kittens and a mama cat. Please join me in squeeing over their cuteness. In between all the kitten photos, here are some events you can join me at this month.
Ruthanna Emrys is joining us today to talk about her novel, A Half-Built Garden. Here’s the publisher’s description: On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarm—and stumbles upon the first …
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Ryan Van Loan is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Memory in the Blood. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Memory in the Blood is the pulse-pounding conclusion to Ryan Van Loan’s The Fall of the Gods series, featuring sea battles, hidden libraries, warring deities, old enemies, and one woman’s desire for liberation and …
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Dan Moren is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Nova Incident. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Galactic Cold War hits close to home, in more ways than one… When a bomb explodes in the bustling Commonwealth capital city of Salaam, responsibility is quickly claimed by an extremist independence movement. But after a …
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Chris Gerrib is joining us today to talk about his novel, One of Our Spaceships is Missing. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the 23rd century, spaceships just don’t go missing. FBI agent Ray Volk is assigned to a task force to investigate a tragic accident: the disappearance of interplanetary passenger liner ValuTrip Cardinal, carrying 500 …
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