Stina Leicht is joining us today to talk about her novel, Loki’s Ring. Here’s the publisher’s description: Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The Tempest, is used to leading her crew on simple retrieval and assistance missions. But when she receives a frantic distress call from Ri, the AI she trained from inception—making her …
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Lavanya Lakshminarayan is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Ten Percent Thief. Here’s the publisher’s description: Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, one of the last bastions of civilization in a world ravaged by climate change. Governed by an insidious corporation, everything is decided by the mathematically precise Bell Curve. With optimal productivity, …
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Jane Hennigan is joining us today to talk about her novel, Moths. Here’s the publisher’s description: A thrilling dystopia, in turns heart-breaking and heart-pounding Where were you at the beginning?Or at the end?And where are we all now?Forty years ago, the world changed. Toxic threads left behind by mutated moths infected men and boys around …
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Leopoldo Gout is joining us today to talk about his novel, Pinata. Here’s the publisher’s description: Mexican American architect and single mother Carmen Sánchez hopes a business trip to Mexico to oversee the transformation of an old cathedral into a posh hotel will be an opportunity for her daughters, Izel and Luna, to learn about …
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Mia Tsai is joining us today to talk about her novel, Bitter Medicine. Here’s the publisher’s description: As a descendant of the Chinese god of medicine, Elle was destined to be a doctor. Instead, she is underemployed as a magical calligrapher at the fairy temp agency. Meanwhile dreamy half-elf Luc, the agency’s top security expert, …
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Rae Mariz is joining us today to talk about her novel, Weird Fishes. Here’s the publisher’s description: AN UNDERWATER TALE OF FRIENDSHIP AGAINST MONSTROUS ODDS When Ceph, a squid-like scientist, discovers proof of the ocean’s slowing currents, she makes the dangerous ascent from her deep-sea civilization to the uncharted surface above. Out of her depths and …
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Jen Comfort is joining us today to talk about her novel, Midnight Duet Here’s the publisher’s description: From The Astronaut and the Star author Jen Comfort comes a wildly electric romance about two musicians who collide on the stage of a Nevada opera house. Self-professed diva Erika Greene has it all: a starring role on …
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Michael Berry is joining us today to talk about his translation of the novel, HOSPITAL, by Han Song. Here’s the publisher’s description: A twisted, wildly imaginative tale of one man’s mysterious illness and his journey through a dystopian hospital system. When Yang Wei travels to C City for work, he expects nothing more than a …
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Kay Kenyon is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Girl Who Fell Into Myth. Here’s the publisher’s description: Yevliesza has been caring for her ailing father when she is summoned home to a world she has never seen. Using a hidden portal, she enters the realm of Numinat, a myth world arisen …
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Mary Baader Kaley is joining us today to talk about her novel, Burrowed. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the distant future, a genetic plague has separated humanity in two – Subterraneans who live in underground burrows to protect their health, and strong surface-dwelling Omniterraneans. Zuzan Cayan, a brilliant Subter girl with “light blindness,” is about …
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Karen Heuler is joining us today to talk about her novel, A Slice of the Dark. Here’s the publisher’s description: If you got a mysterious box that said, Do Not Open, would you open it? If your fingers revolted and wanted a different job, would you agree? If you came from a race of giants, …
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Paz Pardo is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Shamshine Blind. Here’s the publisher’s description: In an alternate 2009, the United States has been a second-rate power for a quarter of a century, ever since Argentina’s victory in the Falkland’s War thanks to their development of “psychopigments.” Created as weapons, these colorful …
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Jane Yolen is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Scarlet Circus. Here’s the publisher’s description: The Scarlet Circus, the fourth volume in Yolen’s award-winning short fiction series brings you passionate treasures and unexpected transformations. This bewitching assemblage, with an original introduction from Brandon Sanderson, is an ideal read for anyone who appreciates …
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Sharon Shinn is joining us today to talk about her novel, The Shuddering City. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the city of Corcannon, everyone has a secret. Madeleine is planning her wedding to Tivol, but she’s really in love with Reese. Jayla has become the guardian of a child named Aussen, but she knows that …
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S.B. Divya is joining us today to talk about her novel, Meru. Here’s the publisher’s description: One woman and her pilot are about to change the future of the species in an epic space opera about aspiration, compassion, and redemption by Hugo and Nebula Award finalist S. B. Divya. For five centuries, human life has …