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Conversations with Authors of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Summer Brooks

Cover to Cover #339A: Jane Lindskold

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Interview: This week, Mike and Summer talk with Jane Lindskold about her newest book, Thirteen Orphans: Breaking the Wall, a tale about the new generation of avatars, descendants of the ones exiled from the Chinese Zodiac, and their journey to discover their powers in time to save themselves from the effects of a war their ancestors thought they’d left behind…

Jane also shares with us her writing choices, especially her adamant avoidance of web surfing and most of the pitfalls associated with the online time sinks.

Cover to Cover #337A: T. A. Pratt

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Interview: This week, Mike and Mike talk with Tim Pratt about the newest book in his Marla Mason series, Dead Reign.

Tim talks changing gears and in writing his fiction, and changing names as a way to help market the Marla Mason books (to appeal to female readers more). Marla even has her own website, and you can keep tabs on her via Twitter!

Cover to Cover #334A: Charlie Huston

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Interview: This week, Mike, Summer and Mike talk with Charlie Huston about Every Last Drop, the newest novel in his series about the vampire PI Joe Pitt, and the horror noir world he’s created where vampires are born from contracting the Vyrus.

Charlie tells us how Joe has ended up “in exile” in the Bronx and is trying to work his way back into enough good graces so he can go back to Manhattan without being killed; and how Joe starts getting closer to some of the most closely guarded secrets of the clans, all leading up to some explosive revelations in the planned 5th and final book in the series.

Cover to Cover #333A: Tor.com

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Interview: This week, Mike and Mike talk with Pablo Defendini and Irene Gallo, two of the producers behind the new Tor.com Scifi Community about how the new project came to be, and how this site is far more than just a marketing tool for Tor Books… it truly is a cross-publisher community of authors and artists, featuring original written and audio fiction, editor and author blogs, and much, much more.

Cover to Cover #332A: Edward M. Lerner

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Interview: This week, Mike and Summer talk with Edward M. Lerner about Juggler of Worlds, the next book about the Puppeteers. He tells about how the story has progressed from Fleet of Worlds, and the more mysteries about what’s happening to the humans and the Kzinti.

Edward also has a new book in his own universe, Fool’s Experiments, which will be out in November. This story is a near-future tale about the impact of the quest to create artificial life and it’s evolution into artificial intelligence, and how accidents happen despite the best intentions and careful precautions.

Cover to Cover #331A: Joe Abercrombie

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Interview: This week, Mike, Summer and Mike talk with Joe Abercrombie about Last Argument of Kings, the third book in “The First Law” Trilogy. We talk about the characters and the more contemporary feel of their speech, the more intimate nature of relationships and intrigues, and about how the buzz about these stories surround the writing style of the battle scenes.

Cover to Cover #329A: Jennifer Rardin

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Interview: This week, Mike and Summer talk with Jennifer Rardin about Bitten To Death, the fourth in her Jaz Parks series. She tells us about how the story and characters gelled, and how she wanted to go in a different direction than most paranormal tales have gone, working more with the urban adventure rather than the strict romance.

Cover to Cover #327A: L. A. Banks

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Interview: This week, Mike, Mike, Lorrie and Summer talk with urban fantasy author L. A. Banks, creator of the Vampire Huntress Legend series. The first book, Minion, came out to much acclaim in 2004, and the newest book out this year, The Shadows, is already the 11th book in the series! And yes, she’s working on Book 12, due out in February 2009…

Cover to Cover #326A: David Boop

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Interview: This week, we talk with David Boop, author of She Murdered Me With Science, a scifi detective pulp noir tale, set in an alternate 1953, with a disgraced scientist working as a private detective who’s suddenly set on a course to solve the mystery behind the deadly accident he was blamed for.

Cover to Cover #325A: F. Paul Wilson

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Interview: We chat with F. Paul Wilson, author of over 40 novels including the seminal Repairman Jack and Adversary Cycle series, about his newest book, a young adult entry about Jack’s teen years, Jack: Secret Histories. He gives us a history on building Jack up by going back to his teen years in the Pine Barrens when he’s slowly discovering his abilities as well as defining his loyalties to his friends.

Cover to Cover #322A: Charles Stross

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Interview: Hugo Award nominee and winner Charles Stross is in studio to chat about his latest book, Saturn’s Children. Charles explains how the story is really a Heinlein styled period piece, an homage to Heinlein’s late period, and tells the story of an android designed to be a sex robot for humans, only humans have gone extinct before she rolls off the assembly line.

Why else would a robot have been built with nipples?

Cover to Cover #321A: Tom Corwin and Craig Frazier

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Interview: Mike, Summer and Mike talk with the author and illustrator of Mr Fooster, Traveling on a Whim, Tom Corwin and Craig Frazier.

Tom and Craig tell us of how they met, and how they began collaborating, and how the inspiration for the actual story was one of Craig’s existing illustrations. We also talk about the back and forth of the collaborative process, and bringing the words and the style of the art together, and growing the project into the finished version.