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Karina Sumner-Smith is joining us today with her novel Towers Fall. Here’s the publisher’s description: War. Fire. Destruction. Xhea believed that the Lower City had weathered the worst of its troubles—that their only remaining fight would be the struggle to rebuild before winter. She was wrong. Now her home is under attack from an unexpected source. […]

Martin Rose is joining us today to talk about his novel My Loaded Gun, My Lonely Heart. Here’s the publisher’s description: Vitus Adamson has a second chance at life now that he’s no longer a zombie. But after killing his brother Jamie, Vitus lands in prison on murder charges. Jamie’s death exposes secret government projects so

Emma Newman is joining us today with her novel Planetfall. Here’s the publisher’s description: From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing… Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A

Lila Bowen (aka Delilah S. Dawson) is joining us today to talk about her novel Wake of Vultures. Here’s the publisher’s description: A rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death, and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface. Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She’s a half-breed who

Cassandra Rose Clarke is joining us today with her novel Our Lady of the Ice. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union meets The Windup Girl when a female PI goes up against a ruthless gangster—just as both humans and robots agitate for independence in an Argentinian colony in Antarctica. In Argentine Antarctica, Eliana Gomez

Kelly Swails is joining us today with her novel This May Go On Your Permanent Record. Here’s the publisher’s description: Sally Clark is curious about how technology works, which would be fine except her experiments tend to be illegal. She’s also a terrible liar, which is why she ends up in court for stealing groceries with nothing

SL Huang is joining us today with her novel Root of Unity. Here’s the publisher’s description: Back for book three . . . Cas Russell has always used her superpowered mathematical skills to dodge snipers or take down enemies. Oh, yeah, and make as much money as possible on whatever unsavory gigs people will hire

Kameron Hurley is joining us today with her novel Empire Ascendant. Here’s the publisher’s description: Loyalties are tested when worlds collide… Every two thousand years, the dark star Oma appears in the sky, bringing with it a tide of death and destruction. And those who survive must contend with friends and enemies newly imbued with violent

Minerva Zimmerman is joining us today with her novel Take On Me. Here’s the publisher’s description: Turning someone you don’t know into a vampire probably violates the Hippocratic oath. But Alex wasn’t really thinking about that when he found a girl bleeding out in his shower. Being turned into a vampire isn’t as cool as it

Ilana C. Myer is joining us today with her Last Song Before Night. Here’s the publisher’s description: A high fantasy following a young woman’s defiance of her culture as she undertakes a dangerous quest to restore her world’s lost magic in Ilana C. Myer’s Last Song Before Night. Her name was Kimbralin Amaristoth: sister to a

Seb Doubinsky is joining us today with his novel The Song of Synth. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Song of Synth welcomes readers into a world of mind-warping drugs, conspiracy, and a hero who can’t distinguish reality half the time. Synth is a drug able to induce hallucinations indistinguishable from reality. But it’s brand new, highly

Tom Toner is joining us today with his novel The Promise of the Child. Here’s the publisher’s description: It is the 147th century. In the radically advanced post-human worlds of the Amaranthine Firmament, there is a contender to the Immortal throne: Aaron the Long-Life, the Pretender, a man who is not quite a man. In the

Jason Kirk is joining us today with his story in verse, “The Guardian from the Sea,” from the anthology Phantasma: Stories. Here’s the publisher’s description: An eclectic collection of speculative short stories by Anne Charnock (2013 Philip K. Dick Award finalist), Jodi McIsaac (A Cure for Madness, the Thin Veil series), Kate Maruyama (Harrowgate), Roberta

Kent Davis is joining us today with his novel A Riddle in Ruby. Here’s the publisher’s description: Ruby is a thief-in-training and a keeper of secrets—ones she doesn’t even know herself. A Riddle in Ruby is the first book in a witty and fast-paced fantasy-adventure trilogy for fans for Jonathan Stroud, Septimus Heap, and The Very Nearly

William Alexander is joining us today with his novel Nomad. Here’s the publisher’s description: Gabe Fuentes is in a race against time—and aliens—in this intergalactic sequel to Ambassador, which Booklist called “an exciting sci-fi adventure, perceptively exploring what it means to be alien,” from National Book Award winner William Alexander. When we last left Earth’s Ambassador, Gabe