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Conversations with Authors of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Michael R. Mennenga

Cover to Cover #49: Michael Moorcock

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Interview: Michael Moorcock is here, talking with us about his latest book, The Skrayling Tree. If you’ve followed Elric over the years, you might find him in an odd place, dealing with Nazis and Native Americans! Yes, Stormbringer is still around, so old hats won’t be disappointed.

Cover to Cover #46: Greg Keyes

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Interview: Greg Keyes is a New York Times Bestselling author, with several other novels to his credit, including a Star Wars book he’s currently working on. With a solid background in Anthropology, Greg’s fantasy novels have an interesting historic twist.

Greg’s latest work, The Briar King, is due to release January 19th, so it should be in stores shortly after that.

Cover to Cover #45: Robert J. Sawyer

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Interview: Rob Sawyer, possibly one of the most heavily grounded in “science” authors of science fiction we’ve ever talked to, joins us to discuss his latest series of books dealing with Neanderthals and Human evolution. The first book, Hominids, is out in paperback and the next book, Humans, will be out in hard cover very soon. Following quickly on their heels will be Hybrids, the conclusion (?) of the series.

Cover to Cover #44: Terry Bisson

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Interview: Nebula and Hugo Award winning author Terry Bisson spoke with us today.

Terry has been writing for years. His latest book, The Pick-up Artist deals with an issue Michael and I talk about nearly every show… too many books! He also has a great collection of short stories, In the Upper Room is also available.

Cover to Cover #43: Peter Coyote

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Peter Coyote, star of film and stage, just happens to be an author as well! His book, sleeping where I fall (case intentional), is a personal memoir of his life and times spent with an amazing radical street group called The Diggers. Peter takes some time to explain the basic premise to the book to us, which has enticed both of us to rush out and get a copy!

Cover to Cover #42: Piers Anthony

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No kidding, kids! We’ve got one of Michael and Evo’s favorite authors on the show this week. Piers is one of the most prolific authors of today (or anytime, for that matter) with over 120 books to his credit.

With Piers we cover the full gambit, from his new erotic novel work The Magic Fart, a sequel to his popular Pornucopia, to how Hollywood cuts the best parts of their own works!

Cover to Cover #41: Victoria Strauss

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Interview: Victoria Strauss has penned many great Sci-fi/fantasy books in the past, and we talk to her about her latest one, The Garden of the Stone from Eos.

She is also the owner/moderator of Writer Beware, a site dedicated to shedding light on shady agents, publishers, and editors out to take advantage of new authors.

Cover to Cover #40: Dave Rineberg

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Dave Rineberg is a fascinating person with amazing accomplishments. As a tennis pro and hitting coach for none other than Venus and Serena Williams, he’s written three books on his time in the trenches with this powerful and controversial family.

Dave has also penned his first fantasy novel, In Search of Dorothy, due out sometime in the summer of 2003. This book takes us 20 years after Dorothy’s return to Kansas and asks a simple question: what if it wasn’t a dream? Dave weaves in concepts from both the orginal book as well as the movie The Wizard of Oz

Cover to Cover #37: Jonathan Fesmire

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Interview: An interesting talk with Jonathan Fesmire, author of Seeds of Vision and Children of Rhatlan. Jonathan started out with an e-book publisher and has migrated over to conventional print via Crystal Dreams Publications. Give a listen to see what he has to say about the difference between “e” and print.

Cover to Cover #36: R. A. Salvatore

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R. A. Salvatore – New York Times best selling author – many times over – talks with us about his latest book The Thousand Orcs. The first in the Hunter’s Blades trilogy, published by Wizards of the Coast.

We talk about his writing, and exciting opertunities with The Demon Wars, his Star Wars books, movie participation, and other upcoming book deals.

Cover to Cover #35: Greg Burke

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Greg Burke is the author of Alien Earth, a near-future novel about… aliens and the earth! (Go figure.) In a nutshell, everything you’ve heard about aliens is true. Now how do we react as a species? Gotta read it to find out!

Greg also writes technical manuals for… beer? Now come on. We’ve drank enough beer to know that it’s not that technical. But it does make for a funny story!