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Gerrard Cowan is joining us today with his novel The Machinery. Here’s the publisher’s description: For ten millennia, the leaders of the Overland have been Selected by the Machinery, an omnipotent machine gifted to their world in darker days. The city has thrived in arts, science and war, crushing all enemies and expanding to encompass the entire […]

Mel Odom is joining us today with his novel Guerilla. Here’s the publisher’s description: He’s behind enemy lines. But those lines are shifting beneath his feet. In the jungles of Makaum, the Terran military is locked in a critical standoff over the planet’s resources with the hostile Phrenorians, even as both species maintain uneasy relations with the

Fran Wilde is joining us today with her novel Updraft. Here’s the publisher’s description: In a city of living bone rising high above the clouds, where danger hides in the wind and the ground is lost to legend, a young woman must expose a dangerous secret to save everyone she loves. Welcome to a world of wind

Michi Trota is joining us today to talk about Uncanny Magazine Year Two: The Return of the Space Unicorn Kickstarter. Here’s the Kickstarter description: Last year, three-time Hugo Award winner Lynne M. Thomas & three-time Hugo Award finalist Michael Damian Thomas ran the Uncanny Magazine Year One Kickstarter. We promised to bring you stunning cover art,

Stina Leicht is joining us today with her novel Cold Iron. Here’s the publisher’s description: Fraternal twins Nels and Suvi move beyond their royal heritage and into military and magical dominion in this flintlock epic fantasy debut from a two-time Campbell Award finalist. Prince Nels is the scholarly runt of the ancient Kainen royal family of

David Nabhan is joining us today with his novel The Pilots of Borealis. Here’s the publisher’s description: Top Gun heads to outer space in this throwback to the classic science fiction of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. Strapped in to artificial wings spanning twenty-five feet across, your arms push a tenth of your body weight with each

Aliette de Bodard is joining us today with her novel The House of Shattered Wings. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the late twentieth century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins, the aftermath of a Great War between arcane powers. The Grand Magasins have been reduced to piles of debris, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell,

Stephen Moore is joining us today with his novel Graynelore. Here’s the publisher’s description: Rodrig Wishard is a killer, a thief and a liar. He’s a fighting man who prefers to solve his problems with his sword. In a world without government or law, where a man’s only loyalty is to his family and faerie tales

Tom Doyle is joining us today with his novel The Left-Hand Way. Here’s the publisher’s description: Poe’s Red Death returns, more powerful than ever. Can anyone stop him before he summons an apocalyptic nightmare even worse than himself? In The Left-Hand Way, the second book of Tom Doyle’s contemporary fantasy series, the American craftsmen are scattered

Ellen Datlow is joining us today with her book The Best Horror of the Year Volume Seven. Here’s the publisher’s description: A sin-eater plies the tools of her dangerous trade; a jealous husband takes his rival on a hunting trip; a student torments one of his teachers; a cheap grafter is selling artifacts form hell; something is

Stephanie A. Cain is joining us today with her novel Stormseer. Here’s the publisher’s description: The kingdoms of Tamnen and Strid have been at war for decades. Princess Azmei of Tamnen left her family for a treaty marriage to end that war–but an assassin’s blade destroyed her plans. Protected by her presumed death, Azmei hunts the

Zachary Jernigan is joining us today with his novel Shower of Stones. Here’s the publisher’s description: The follow-up to Zachary Jernigan’s critically-acclaimed literary debut No Return. At the moment of his greatest victory, before a crowd of thousands, the warrior Vedas Tezul renounced his faith, calling for revolt against the god Adrash, imploring mankind to unite

J. Dalton Jennings is joining us today with his novel Solomon’s Arrow. Here’s the publisher’s description: It’s the mid-twenty-first century. The oceans are rising, the world’s population is growing, terrorist organizations are running rampant, and it has become readily apparent that humanity’s destructive nature is at the heart of the matter. When all faith in humanity

E. L. Chen is joining us today with her novel The Good Brother. Here’s the publisher’s description: Tori Wong is starting over. She’s given herself a new name, dropped out of school to work at a bookstore, and fled her parents’ strict home to do all the things she’s never done before. Like go out on weeknights,

Loren Rhoads is joining us today with her novel The Dangerous Type. Here’s the publisher’s description: Set in the wake of a galaxy-wide war and the destruction of a human empire, The Dangerous Type follows the awakening of one of the galaxy’s most dangerous assassins and her quest for vengeance. Entombed for twenty years, Raena has been found