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Conversations with Authors of Science Fiction and Fantasy
The archives of the seminal book talk show, and one of the oldest podcasts on the internet.
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Larry Niven; his newest collection is Stars and Gods, but the conversation covers many topics, from portraying technological advances in fiction, space travel and exploration, Niven’s Laws, merging tech and fashion, and more!
Stars and Gods is the latest in a series of collections, containing editorials, articles, short stories and excerpts from novels, and random writing that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.
Interview: Mike and Mike chat with author Michelle M. Welch about her current audio project, Theme and Variations. Currently in the middle of Volume 2, the audio short story anthology consists of speculative fiction with a musical theme.
Michelle talks about how Theme and Variations came about, and the feedback from authors and fans alike, and the likelyhood of breaking this type of anthology out into other genres.
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Kelley Armstrong about the eleventh novel in her “Otherworld” series, Waking the Witch.
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike welcome Marjorie M. Liu back on the show to talk about her latest novel, A Wild Light, the latest volume in the “Hunter Kiss” series, following the battles of Maxine Kiss. In this story Maxine has to battle the darkness within herself, and she’s not so sure she will hold onto herself and win.
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Amelia Beamer about her debut novel, The Loving Dead, a story filled with dark humor, about learning to live life in a world where zombieism is a sexually transmitted disease, providing a different twist on examining the relationships we try to have with each other.
Interview: This week, Mike M and Summer chat with Michael Ray and Paul Clemmons about their new SF magazine, Redstone Science Fiction.
Redstone Science Fiction is an online market paying SFWA pro rates, focused on obtaining and presenting quality science fiction, as well as discussing the science and the technology with professionals working in those fields.
Interview: This week, Mike and Lorrie Mennenga chat with David Drake about his latest novel, The Legions of Fire. It’s the first in “The Books of the Elements”, a new four-part action fantasy series from Tor, set in fictional realm reminscent of ancient Rome, and Dave talks about how the story was influenced from his reading about the Sibylline Books and the Roman leaders who consulted them throughout history
Interview: Tracy Hickman joins Mike and Mike this week to talk about his many varied projects. His most recent book is Song of the Dragon, the first in a new trilogy, “The Annals of Drakis”, being published by Daw Books.
Interview: CJ Cherryh joins us this week! Her most recent book is Deceiver, the 11th book in the Foreigner series, and she explains how the original trilogy continued to grow and expand, and breaking the series down into sub-trilogies in order to make it easier for new readers to jump in.
She also talks about the Closed Circle Project, a collaborative venture with authors Lynn Abbey and Jane Fancher, where they are putting their own backlist works back in print electronically
Interview: Larry Doyle joins us this week to discuss his latest project, Go Mutants!, a satirical comedy that examines a world where the aliens from 1950s “B” movies actually arrived on Earth, and they and their families have been integrated into human society.
Larry talks about his writing career, going from magazines to animated television to screenplays, and how the process of writing novels differs from writing for television or film.
Interview: This week, Dan Wells joins us to talk about his new novel, I Am Not A Serial Killer, a story about a 15-year-old sociopath who worries that he’s becoming a serial killer, and the lengths he goes to to stop a real serial killer.
Interview: Lou Anders, Editorial Director for Pyr, joins us to talk about Pyr SF’s ventures into electronic publishing.
Lou talks about how the iPad has shifted his reading preferences recently, and despite his deep and continuing love for physical books themselves, he can see where his future book buying may go the way his music buying went after iTunes became more widely used.
Interview: Brandon Sanderson joins us this week with much to talk about! He tells us about working on finishing “The Wheel of Time” series, and having to look at the story in a different light from when he was a fan reading the stories.
Brandon also talks about the Writing Excuses podcast, about some of his own projects that will be coming along soon, and the evolution of his own writing ever since his first book was published.
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Mike Resnick about his “Starship” series, his short-stories, and about some of his inspirations for different story ideas.
He also talks about where the publishing industry may be headed with respect to electronic publishing and international markets, especially with the resurgence of the short story markets because of the Internet.
Interview: This week, Mike and Mike chat with Charlaine Harris about Dead in the Family, the tenth novel in her Sookie Stackhouse series.
Charlaine talks about the challenges of maintaining continuity and even fixing previous errors, the impact of HBO series True Blood and how the fans are reacting to the deviation of the TV series from the written series, and more.
