Grant has successfully written himself a real suspense-filled saga about a group of small city kids placed in extraordinary circumstances and dealing with problems that would cause any well-seasoned and trained adult to go crazy.
Archives for 2008
Cover to Cover #313A: Charlaine Harris
Interview: Michael, Lorrie and Michael welcome Charlaine Harris to the studio, to discuss the newest in her Sookie Stackhouse series, From Dead to Worse. Lorrie has become newly addicted to the series, and Charlaine tells us about creating a world that melds real people with supernatural beings and abilities so smoothly.
We also hear a little about the upcoming HBO series based on the books, “True Blood”, and the excitement about the cast and filming is high.
Review: “Whitechapel Gods” by S. M. Peters
Up until now, steampunk has been, for me, an aesthetic. It makes the great heroes of my childhood even cooler. And it makes for computers that are beyond sexy. Something in the synthesis of technology and analog mechanisms strikes just the right chord with me. It’s like the most elegant Rube Goldberg imaginable, with style. And yet, I had never read anything from the genre that inspires these creative works of fabrication fancy.
Until now.
Cover to Cover #312A: Tim Lebbon
Interview: Michael and Michael talk with Tim Lebbon aboutFallen, the latest book in the land of Noreela, taking place about 4000 years before the events of the first two books, Dusk and Dawn.
Cover to Cover #311A: Gail Z. Martin
Interview: Michael and Summer talk with Gail Z. Martin about The Blood King, Book 2 of The Chronicles of the Necromancer, and the developments around her series since we talked to her last year.
Hear about the epic series Gail has planned, the renaissance fair book signing tour, and more!
Robert Asprin Remembered
Robert Asprin, creator and co-author of the MythAdventures series with Jody Lynn Nye, and editor of the Thieves’ World anthologies with Lynn Abbey, passed away on May 22 of a heart attack at his home in New Orleans. For those in the New Orleans area, there will be a “spontaneous wake” in his honor on […]
Review: “City of Ember” by Jeanne DuPrau
Have you ever read a book that is SO good, that you can’t wait to read the next one? That’s this book. It’s the best book I have read so far! The City of Ember is far underground. Which I thought, wow this be really cool to read about.
Cover to Cover #310A: L. E. Modesitt, Jr
Interview: Lee Modesitt, Jr joins Michael and Michael to discuss Viewpoints Critical, his long overdue collection of short stories, about his prolific writing output over the years, and everything in between.
Cover to Cover #309A: Isamu Fukui
Interview: Mike, Summer and Mike talk to 17-year-old Isamu Fukui about his first SF novel, Truancy. He wrote a 100,000 word novel in a summer vacation… don’t hate him, take it as inspiration!
Cover to Cover #308A: Tracy Hickman
Interview: Michael and Michael are bored because Summer isn’t around. So they decided to call up Tracy Hickman and cause a ruckus.
“The Lost Chronicles” is the final series in the vast expanse that is the Dragonlance sequence that Tracy is writing with Margaret Weis.
Review: “Bone Song” by John Meaney
If I had to name the style of Bone Song, I would call it Cyber-Zombie Noir. But lest I give the impression that it’s a book about Zombies let me say that Meaney has created a world with a death based Economy.
Cover to Cover #307A: Jim Butcher
Interview: Just about every show member who’s local to Phoenix dropped by for this one, because Jim Butcher came into town for a book signing. A very well-attended book signing at The Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale, since he was delayed there an extra hour signing books for folks.
Mike M, Summer, Mike S and Brian chat with Jim about the tests and trials poor Harry Dresden’s been put through, and possible expectations of future adventures in the wringer for Harry.
Review: “Black Magic Woman” by Justin Gustainis
Black Magic Woman is the first in a new series by author Justin Gustainis, “The Quincey Morris Supernatural Investigations”. It’s a wonderful read, and wonderful introduction to a world that’s all too familiar to long-time readers of fantasy and dark fantasy like myself.
Cover to Cover #305B: Justin Gustainis
Interview: This week, Justin Gustainis joins us to chat about his new dark fantasy novel Black Magic Woman. He tells us about Quincey Morris and Libby Chastain, and the investigation of an ancient curse on a family, and the larger scope that the story takes on as it progresses.
Review: “The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1: The Field Guide”
My best friend Ashley got this book out of our school library and said I soooooooo had to read it. I took it and looked at it and it was like the littlest book I ever seen! But we like same books so I took it home and wow, she was right!!
