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My Favorite Bit: Grace Curtis talks about FLOATING HOTEL

Grace Curtis is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Floating Hotel. Here’s the publisher’s description: This cozy science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery that spans the stars Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best […]

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My Favorite Bit: CJ Hosack talks about THE SLAYER’S MAGIC

CJ Hosack is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Slayer’s Magic. Here’s the publisher’s description: CJ grew up in Southern California loving fantasy and science fiction. She is married to her husband of thirty plus years, has four children and seven grandchildren. Adopted at eight months old, she recently found her birth

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My Favorite Bit: Izzy Wasserstein talks about THESE FRAGILE GRACES, THIS FUGITIVE HEART

Izzy Wasserstein is joining us today to talk about her novel, These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart. Here’s the publisher’s description: Security expert Dora left her anarchist commune over safety concerns. But when her ex-girlfriend Kay is killed, everyone at the commune is suddenly a potential suspect. In the remains of Kansas City, which the

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My Favorite Bit: Larissa N.N. Davila talks about SHORN

Larissa N.N. Davila is joining us today to talk about her novel, Shorn. Here’s the publisher’s description: Shorn is the first of The Sky Seekers series, a psychological fantasy about oppression and resilience, the consequences of vengeance, and the malleable nature of truth. Jacqueline Carey, author of the Kushiel’s Legacy series says “Shorn is a

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My Favorite Bit: Cory Doctorow talks about THE BEZZLE

Cory Doctorow is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Bezzle. Here’s the publisher’s description: New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow’s The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares. The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top

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My Favorite Bit: Jordan Werner talks about THE WITCH AND THE OSTRICH

Jordan Werner is joining us today to talk about his book, The Witch and the Ostrich. Here’s the publisher’s description: A newspaper-critic witch and a necromancer warlord turned into an ostrich scrounge for survival in the backwaters of an empire. If that sounds like the setup to a joke, Quin might agree with you. Too

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MRK’s 2023 Awards Eligibility

I would be so grateful for your consideration during this award nomination season. “Cold Relations” was published in Uncanny Magazine, and you can read or listen to it here. It’s the only story I published last year. I wrote it while caretaking for my mother and I was thinking a lot about memory and legacy.

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My Favorite Bit: Alvaro Zinos-Amaro talks about EQUIMEDIAN

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro is joining us today to talk about his novel, Equimedian. Here’s the publisher’s description: Jason Velez lives a mundane existence installing EmuX virtual reality machines-scraping together just enough money to pay for his increasingly unsustainable science fiction collection-when he begins having strange dreams. He knows he has to make some personal changes if

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My Favorite Bit: Nathan Tavares talks about WELCOME TO FOREVER

Nathan Tavares is joining us today to talk about his novel, Welcome to Forever. Here’s the publisher’s description: A sweeping, psychedelic romance of two men caught in a looping world of artificial realities, edited memories, secretive cabals and conspiracies to push humanity to the next step in its evolution. For fans of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and

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The 2023 Hugo Awards

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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