I tend to think of April Fool’s Day as Alternate Reality Day. A well-constructed April Fool’s joke is one, which creates, for a moment, a really cool world to live in. But, there are rules. So, I thought I would post my rules for what makes a good prank and then walk you through my most recent […]
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So if it were April 1 and a friend “noticed” that there was erotic Glamourist Histories fanfic on Amazon. And said friend had a history of writing fast and writing fan-fic, would you give them the side eye? Yes. Or if another friend has apparently been working on a secret project. So tell me the
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Some of you noticed that I was doing some Kermit flailing on Twitter a while back. That’s usually a good sign of secret good news. And while I did get an invitation to audition for a speaking role on Sesame Street. I didn’t get the part, so that’s not what the flailing was about. The flailing
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One of the ways that my privilege shows is that my parents paid for my college education. They also were able to fill in the financial gaps when I started working as a puppeteer so that I didn’t have to get a day job. While I tried not to lean on them, there were months
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I was an art major in college. It’s been on my bucket list to design an award, though I’d been thinking of the Hugo base. So when World Fantasy announced that they were going to replace the existing award, I asked for more information. Today I got it. And it is bullshit. I say this with
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Ainy Rainwater is joining us today with her novel If Wishes Were Spaceships. Here’s the publisher’s description: When Jazlyn is forced to make an emergency landing on a quarantine planet, the worst she expects to find are a bunch of irate scientists complaining because she messed up the pristine conditions of some experiment. But the buildings
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Rachel Swirsky is joining us today with her short story “Love Is Never Still” in Uncanny Magazine Issue Nine. Featuring all–new short fiction by Rachel Swirsky, Shveta Thakrar, Max Gladstone, Kelly Sandoval, and Simon Guerrier, classic fiction by Daryl Gregory, nonfiction by Jim C. Hines, Kyell Gold, Javier Grillo–Marxuach, and Mark Oshiro, poems by C. S. E. Cooney,
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Stacey Berg is joining us today with her novel Dissension. Here’s the publisher’s description: For four hundred years, the Church has led the remnants of humanity as they struggle for survival in the last inhabited city. Echo Hunter 367 is exactly what the Church created her to be: loyal, obedient, lethal. A clone who shouldn’t care
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Alan Smale is joining us today with his novel Eagle in Exile. Here’s the publisher’s description: Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Steve Berry, Naomi Novik, and Harry Turtledove, Alan Smale’s gripping alternate history series imagines a world in which the Roman Empire has survived long enough to invade North America in 1218. Now the
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Gillian Murray Kendall is joining us today with her novel The Book of Forbidden Wisdom. Here’s the publisher’s description: In a world of blood and betrayal, love is the only redemption… But that knowledge can only be reached by means of magic and a journey, by way of a confrontation with feelings that are hard to
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Elizabeth Bonesteel is joining us today with her novel The Cold Between. Here’s the publisher’s description: Deep in the stars, a young officer and her lover are plunged into a murder mystery and a deadly conspiracy in this first entry in a stellar military science-fiction series in the tradition of Lois McMaster Bujold. When her crewmate,
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Over a million words of fiction from the 2016 Campbell-eligible writers, FREE until March 31, 2016. This anthology includes 120 authors—who contributed 230 works totaling approximately 1.1 MILLION words of fiction. These pieces all originally appeared in 2014, 2015, or 2016 from writers who are new professionals to the science fiction and fantasy field, and they
Peter Tieryas is joining us today with his novel United States of Japan. Here’s the publisher’s description: A spiritual sequel to The Man In The High Castle, focusing on the New Japanese Empire, from an acclaimed author and essayist. The Axis won WWII and now, in the late 1980s, the Japanese Empire rules over the western US
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Although I’m going to have to come up with a better title. And if you want Lee to answer your questions next week, here’s the link to the Google On Air for Episode 3 of “Ask a Puppet”
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Mark Tompkins is joining us today to with his novel The Last days of Magic. Here is the publisher’s description: An epic novel of magic and mysticism, Celts and faeries, mad kings and druids, and the goddess struggling to reign over magic’s last outpost on the Earth. What became of magic in the world? Who
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