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Conversations with Authors of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Michael R. Mennenga

Cover to Cover #69: Tracy Hickman / Peter David

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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.

Cover to Cover #68: Tamara Thorne / Lee Nelson

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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.

Cover to Cover #66: Stan Lee / Peter David

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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.

Cover to Cover #64: Richard Purtill / Lynn Terelle

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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.

Cover to Cover #60: Greg Bear

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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.

Cover to Cover #59: Michael Romkey / Elizabeth Merz

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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.

Cover to Cover #58: Kathleen H. Nelson / John F. Nienstedt

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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.

Cover to Cover #57: Troy Denning / Aaron Dean Hall

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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.

Cover to Cover #55: Ann Tonsor Zeddies / Justin Hinks

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Ann Tonsor Zeddies
This week Ann Tonsor Zeddies joins us to talk about her book Steel Helix, a book about genetics and the future.

Justin Hinks
Justin Hinks is a new author who published a book called Talismans of Puissance. Justin is attending the University of Illinois, and tells us what it is like trying to write a book while working as a full time student.

Cover to Cover #54: Stan Lee / Tee Morris

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Stan Lee! (Yes, THE Stan Lee!)
This was a true treat for both of us, as like most kids of the 70’s and 80’s, we grew up on Spiderman and other Marvel comics.

If we’ve ever recorded a show you don’t want to mis, it’s this interview with Stan Lee. Lie, cheat, play hookey… do what ever you must, but do not miss this interview with the legend Stan “The Man” Lee.

Cover to Cover #52: Tony Ruggiero

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Interview: Tony Ruggiero joins us to talk about his latest book, Get Out of My Mind, a political book with a slight science fiction twist. Set around the presidential election of 2000, we get a glimpse of both human as well as alien politics.

Cover to Cover #50: Mitchell Graham

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Mitchell Graham.
Mitch joins us to talk about his book, The Fifth Ring, recently released by Harper Collins. It’s the first book in a trilogy and regardless of what you might think from the title, it hasn’t a thing to do with any of Tolkiens works.

The Fifth Ring is Mitch’s first work as a novelist, bringing in many aspects of his past as a collegiate fencer, attorney and neuropsychologist. Now that sounds like an interesting back ground that would make anyone a fantasy author!