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Conversations with Authors of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell.
Boris and Julie join us once again to catch up over the past year. They were one of our firsts guests and we’re happy to have them back on the show.
L. Marie Wood
Her latest book is called Crescendo, a story of psychological horror and suspense. It’s L. Marie’s first full-length novel, and her background is in (oddly enough) poetry, short stories and screen plays. Don’t get scared off about the horror title, for it’s not your basic slasher story.
Tracy Hickman.
Tracy Hickman joins us to speak about his upcoming series, “The Bronze Canticles”. The first book isn’t due out for a while, but we thought we’d wet your whistle well in advance. We’re happy to have Tracy back on the show again.
Peter David.
Sure, this guy did the novelization of The Hulk, but he’s got more things up his sleeve! He’s working on a “Star Trek” series called New Frontier, and a new book in that series coming out in late fall. He also writes the “Apropos” series as well as others.
Tamara Thorne
Author of the psychological thriller series Sorority, Tamara joins us to discuss how she weaves sex, humor and horror together into a trilogy.
Lee Nelson
In a great departure from our tradition of speaking with science fiction or fantasy authors, we talk with Lee Nelson about his latest Western, Among the Indians.
A million people pre-ordered Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I guess that makes me one in a million! (Thank you, I’ll be here all week.)
Honestly, though, you can’t imagine how I felt when I opened my door mid-Saturday morning, and found the box from Amazon.com sitting there. I’m a huge Harry Potter fan. For the next two days, I didn’t turn on the TV, didn’t shave, barely bathed, and left the house only once or twice to get a couple of snacks (and didn’t bother to brush, my teeth look nasty).
Stan Lee
For those of you unlucky souls who missed our interview with Stan back in March, you’re in luck. Since The Hulk comes crashing into theaters June 20th, we decided to bring Stan back on the show
Peter David
Continuing on our Hulk theme for the day, we speak with Peter David, author for the monthly comic for more than 12 years. Peter also penned the novelization of the soon-to-be-blockbuster movie and shared with us what it’s like to shift from monthly comic form to adapting a screenplay into a novel.
If you read science fiction, you have to read Robert J. Sawyer. That’s all there is to it.
Calculating God explores such mundane questions as “Was the universe designed by an intelligent creator?” “Is there a God?” “Does he influence the affairs of man?” “Why is there life in the universe?” Sawyer’s answers are the most imaginative you will ever read.
Steven Piziks
Steven Piziks, writing under the double-top-secret code name of Steven Harper, released recently his latest work Nightmare. In Steven’s own words, “it’s a serial-killer science-fiction novel!”
Alan F. Troop writes well. His prose has a nice, tight style, and he tells a well constructed, if somewhat convoluted, story. I enjoyed large portions of the book. But the story suffers from two miscalculations that makes the book unfulfilling overall.
The idea of reading a book written by two people who had never even met was too cool to pass up. And I also felt like I should be supporting Bookcrazy and The Dragonpage by actually buying their authors’ books. So I sent Amazon.com my $23.95 (dear Lord, for a PAPERBACK! BTW, it is now available for $19.95). About six weeks later, Morevi: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana was sitting in my doorstep, wrapped in a plain brown package.
It was worth every fucking cent.
This is a good book. Not a good “first novel”. A good novel. Tee, Lisa, you should be very proud of yourselves.
Richard Purtill
Now here’s an interesting concept. Take an author who wrote a book 30 years ago under a traditional publishing house and find a way to re-release the book without a massive run. That’s what Richard Purtill did with The Golden Gryphon Feather.
Lynn Terelle
Lynn tackles the moral challenges of cloning in her book, The Book of Daniel. In this book, cloning is both responsible for a global apocalypse and our species only salvation.
Greg Bear.
Greg joins us to speak about his latest book, Darwin’s Children, an interesting interpretation of the future of mankind and the possibilities in store when evolution makes a big leap forward — rather quickly! It’s the sequel to Darwin’s Radio, where Greg first started talking about the changes possible now that we better understand the genetic sequence of mankind.
Michael Romkey
Michael’s new book is The Vampire’s Violin. Music lovers will enjoy this book as well. Michael does a fascinating job of describing the intricate details of the creation and crafting of violins in this book.
Elizabeth Merz
Talk about an ambitious project for a relatively new writer! Elizabeth is working on a seven book series! The first title is Betnoni’s Prophecy, chronicling the history and political intrigue of another world.
Kathleen H. Nelson
Kathleen’s new book is The Dragon Reborn, an ambitious project and sequel to Daughter of Dragons. Similar to another author we know, Kathleen deals with dragon/human relations and gives us another perspective on these magical creatures.
John F. Nienstedt
We speak with John about his latest book, See The Monkey: A Tale of Two Evils. His book deals with conversations between a columnist and a disembodied voice of evil.
Troy Denning
Troy Denning’s latest book is Tatooine Ghost. This book is a classic bridge novel, which ties the original set of movies to the latest prequels. Han and Leia are married and return to Tatooine to discover a diary left by Leia’s grandmother.
Aaron Dean Hall
Aaron is a new author, and his first offering is The Sorceress of Atunluck. A tale of fantasy and magic on a war-ravaged isle called Atunluck. Aaron wrote the book based on his time teaching school in a small town in Alaska.
Terry Brooks joins us to talk about his latest book, Sometimes the Magic Works. It’s a great book that explores the complete craft of writing– Terry Brooks style. As one of the most prolific and well-known fantasy authors, these tips comes straight from the heart!
