Kowal continues her exquisite exploration of race and gender relations in an alternate 1961 that is still shockingly close to our own. – Publishers Weekly Starred Review In space, it’s often the details that matter most. Specifically, details regarding how we handle matter – every bit of it – and how we have to treat […]
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Katherine Cowley is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Secret Life of Miss Mary Bennet. Here’s the publisher’s description: In Jane Austen’s revered Pride and Prejudice, Mary, the middle sister, is often passed over. Until now… Upon the death of her father, Mary Bennet’s life is thrown into turmoil. With no fortune
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Nino Cipri is joining us today to talk about their novella, DEFEKT. Here’s the publisher’s description: Find out if five Dereks are better than one in Nino Cipri’s Defekt, the sequel to Finna, the surrealist world-hopping adventure. Derek is LitenVärld’s most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a
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My newest Patreon series, Interviewing Experts, continues on Tuesday, April 20th at 7PM CST (8PM Eastern) with astronaut Cady Coleman. I’ll be conducting an interview with her as if I’m preparing to feature her job in a novel. You get to ask questions, too! Live captioning is provided for accessibility, and recordings are available for those
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Caroline Hardaker is joining us today to talk about her novel, Composite Creatures. Here’s the publisher’s description: How close would you hold those you love, when the end comes? In a society where self-preservation is as much an art as a science, Norah and Arthur are learning how to co-exist in their new little world.
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Long, long ago, years ago, perhaps decades ago, in the distant past of 2019… I was given the opportunity to opportunity to write an opinion piece for The Washington Post. It was a chance for me to highlight some of the challenges faced by women in space. Many of these challenges are institutional and rooted
Laura Weyr is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Eighth Key. Here’s the publisher’s description: The magic is gone…or is it? Lucian is a jaded flirt and professional bard who knows all the old songs about sorcery. When he meets Corwin, a shy mage who can still use magic despite the Drought,
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As you may have guessed, all of my events will continue to be online for the time being. I have two writing dates, an Ask An Expert interview with Katie Mack, and a class on how to structure a heist coming up this month for my Patreon Supporters. I hope to see you there!
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When President Biden was elected, a lot of folks noticed that we share the same middle name — Robinette. Pretty much all Robinettes in the US are related. I’m an outlier, because I’m named after my grandmother, who is named after her father, who is named after the minister who married his parents. Basically any
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Neve Maslakovic is joining us today to talk about her novel, All the Whys of Deliah’s Demise. Here’s the publisher’s description: From the author of Regarding Ducks and Universes, a new speculative whodunit set in an all-too-possible future where brand is everything. Top Ten. Top Hundred. Top Thousand… Scottie’s not in any of them. A rocky year
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Nicole Glover is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Conductors. Here’s the publisher’s description: From a bold new voice in speculative fiction comes a vibrant historical fantasy of magic and murder set in the aftermath of the Civil War. Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, were Conductors on the Underground Railroad, ferrying
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C. L. Clark is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Unbroken. Here’s the publisher’s description: In an epic fantasy unlike any other, two women clash in a world full of rebellion, espionage, and military might on the far outreaches of a crumbling desert empire. Touraine is a soldier. Stolen as a child and
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Nick Martell is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Two-Faced Queen. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Hollows is gripped in unrest and on the brink of civil war as an insurgency of anarchists rise, and brother and sister vie for the throne in the second novel in the critically hailed Legacy of
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While past Lady Astronaut novels have explored the political challenges of resettling the human race, The Relentless Moon best embodies these obstacles in the tenacious Nicole, who would rather be showing people how to float-walk in zero-G but instead squeezes herself into high heels and grounds herself with Earth’s gravity in order to meet her peers where
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Marie Vibbert is joining us today to talk about her novel, Galactic Hellcats. Here’s the publisher’s description: Ki is a petty thief. Her best friend wills her his solo-flyer—call it a space motorcycle: temperamental, fast as hell, and expensive to maintain. Any reasonable person would sell it to get off the street, but Ki isn’t
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