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Timothy Jay Smith is joining us today to talk about his novel The Fourth Courier. Here’s the publisher’s description: It is 1992 in Warsaw, Poland, and the communist era has just ended. A series of grisly murders suddenly becomes an international case when it’s feared that the victims may have been couriers smuggling nuclear material out […]

Arkady Martine is joining us today to talk about her novel A Memory Called Empire. Here is the publisher’s description: Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit

Marshall Ryan Maresca is joining us today to talk about his novel A Parliament of Bodies. Here’s the publisher’s description: Mixing high fantasy and mystery, the third book in the Maradaine Constabulary series follows Inspectors Satrine Rainey and Minox Welling as they track down a dangerous murderer. The city of Maradaine is vexed by the Gearbox

K. A. Doore is joining us today to talk about her novel The Perfect Assassin. Here’s the publisher’s description: A novice assassin is on the hunt for someone killing their own in K. A. Doore’s The Perfect Assassin, a breakout high fantasy beginning the Chronicles of Ghadid series. Divine justice is written in blood. Or so Amastan

Kameron Hurley is joining us today to talk about her novel The Light Brigade. Here’s the publisher’s description: They said the war would turn us into light…  The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…different. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel

Jack Skillingstead is joining us today with his novel The Chaos Function. Here’s the publisher’s description: Olivia Nikitas, a hardened journalist whose specialty is war zones, has been reporting from the front lines of the civil war in Aleppo, Syria. When Brian, an aid worker she reluctantly fell in love with, dies while following her into

Michael R. Johnston is joining us today to talk about his novel The Widening Gyre. Here’s the publisher’s description: Eight hundred years ago, the Zhen Empire discovered a broken human colony ship drifting in the fringes of their space. The Zhen gave the humans a place to live and folded them into their Empire as a

Dan Stout is joining us today to talk about his novel Titanshade. Here’s the publisher’s description: Carter’s a homicide cop in Titanshade, an oil boomtown where 8-tracks are state of the art, disco rules the radio, and all the best sorcerers wear designer labels. It’s also a metropolis teetering on the edge of disaster. As its

Amber Royer is joining us today with her novel Pure Chocolate. Here is the publisher’s description: In a galaxy where chocolate is literally addictive, one celebrity chef is fighting back, in the delicious sequel to Free Chocolate To save everyone she loves, Bo Bonitez is touring Zant, home of the murderous, shark-toothed aliens who so recently tried

Dan Moren is joining us today to talk about his upcoming novel The Bayern Agenda. Here’s the publisher’s description: Simon Kovalic, top intelligence operative for the Commonwealth of Independent Systems, is on the frontline of the burgeoning Cold War with the aggressive Illyrican Empire. He barely escapes his latest mission with a broken arm, and vital

Keith R.A. DeCandido is joining us today with his novel A Furnace Sealed. Here’s the publisher’s description: Bram Gold is a Courser, a hunter-for-hire who deals with supernatural creatures, mystical happenings, and things that go booga-booga in the night. Under the supervision of the Wardein—his childhood friend Miriam Zerelli, who is in charge of all

Howard Andrew Jones is joining us today to talk about his novel For the Killing of Kings. Here’s the publisher’s description: Their peace was a fragile thing, but it had endured for seven years, mostly because the people of Darassus and the king of the Naor hordes believed his doom was foretold upon the edge of

Alison Wilgus is joining us today with her graphic novel Chronin Volume 1: The Knife at Your Back. Here’s the publisher’s description: 2042, New York City: A day in the life of college student Mirai Yoshida means studying Japanese history, learning swordmanship, flirting with her TA, and preparing to travel to Japan in 1864. Everything

Micah Dean Hicks is joining us today to talk about his novel Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones. Here’s the publisher’s description: Swine Hill was full of the dead. Their ghosts were thickest near the abandoned downtown, where so many of the town’s hopes had died generation by generation. They lingered in the places that mattered to

Charlie N. Holmberg is joining us today to talk about her new book Smoke and Summons. Here’s the publisher’s description: As a human vessel for an ancient spirit, Sandis lives no ordinary life. At the command of her master, she can be transformed against her will into his weapon—a raging monster summoned to do his bidding.