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Ursula Whitcher is joining us today to talk about their novel, North Continent Ribbon. Here’s the publisher’s description: On Nakharat, every contract is a ribbon and every ribbon is a secret, braided tight and tucked behind a veil. Artificial intelligence threatens the tightly-woven network. Stability depends on giving each machine a human conscience–but the humans […]

A.Z. Rozkillis is joining us today to talk about her novel, Space Station X. Here’s the publisher’s description: Will the space station bring them together or destroy them? Engineer Jax ran away to the farthest space station from Earth in the galaxy. It’s nothing more than a pitstop, frequented only by those looking to get

Neal Holtschulte is joining us today to talk about his novel, Crew of Exiles Here’s the publisher’s description: A bitter transcendent being. A naive gamer with no extra lives. A discarded human shell. The last people left on Earth. In 2500 A.D. an immortal has ended its own life. Beryl, a misanthropic transcendent being, is

Michael J. DeLuca is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Jaguar Mask. Here’s the publisher’s description: Felipe K’icab doesn’t know who he is. He only knows he was born different than his human family, and he can’t relax unless he’s blasting reggaeton in his cab weaving through the streets of Guatemala City.

P.H. Low is joining us today to talk about their novel, The Deathless Shores. Here’s the publisher’s description: Gorgeous and devastating, P. H. Low’s debut fantasy is a richly reimagined tale of Captain Hook’s origin, a story of cruelty, magic, lost innocence, and the indelible power of stories. Jordan was once a Lost Boy, convinced

Benjamin Liar is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Failures. Here’s the publisher’s description: Welcome to the Wanderlands. A vast machine made for reasons unknown, the Wanderlands was broken long ago. First went the sky, splintering and cracking, and then very slowly, the whole machine—the whole world—began to go dark. Meet the

Robin C.M. Duncan is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Rigel Redemption. Here’s the publisher’s description: The most powerful man in the solar system is going to steal the future. Besides dealing with his teenage assistant, Moth (being enticed by her mafia family to join the business), Quirk’s nemesis Beatrix Potter has

Tobias S. Buckell & Dave Klecha are joining us today to talk about their novel, The Runes of Engagement. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Lord of the Rings meets World of Warcraft in this delirious mashup pitting the U. S. military against legendary monsters from fantasy novels and roleplaying games. From a science fiction award-winner and an author, former

Cherie Priest is joining us today to talk about her novel, Cinderwich. Here’s the publisher’s description: “Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?” Decades after trespassing children spotted the desiccated corpse wedged in the treetop, no one knows the answer. Kate Thrush and her former college professor, Dr. Judith Kane, travel to Cinderwich, Tennessee in

Tim Pratt is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Knife and the Serpent. Here’s the publisher’s description: After her grandmother is murdered in a home invasion, Tamsin Culver leaves her cushy programming job in San Francisco and returns to her Midwestern hometown to settle the estate. What she doesn’t expect is to

Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam is joining us today to talk about her novel, Grim Root. Here’s the publisher’s description: Embark on a darkly humorous journey of reality TV meets the macabre. On the set of The Groom, a group of women must compete for the heart of Midwestern bachelor Tristan by spending a week in a haunted house.

Lindsay Ellis is joining us today to talk about her novel, Apostles of Mercy. Here’s the publisher’s description: Apostles of Mercy is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LA Times bestselling Lindsay Ellis. First Contact has not been going well. The nations of Earth

Robert J. Sawyer is joining us today to talk about his novel, The Downloaded. Here’s the publisher’s description: In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario. One group consists of astronauts preparing for Earth’s first interstellar voyage. The other? Convicted murderers, serving their sentences in a