Interview Transcript: This week, Justin Gustainis joins Mike and Mike to discuss his new projects, including the recently released Those Who Fight Monsters, an occult detectives anthology he edited for EDGE SF. Justin talks about why he put together this anthology, who he had contacted to contribute, what he expected and what he didn’t expect during the creation of this book.
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Cover to Cover #433A: Sam Sykes
Interview: Mike and Mike talk with Sam Sykes, about his debut novel, Tome of the Undergates from Pyr. It’s the first book in the Aeons’ Gate Trilogy, a fantasy adventure about preventing the gates of the underworld from being opened and destroying the world, full of eipc, gritty battles and dark, flawed characters.
Cover to Cover #430A: Nancy Kilpatrick
Interview: Mike and Mike talk with Nancy Kilpatrick, editor of the recent Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead anthology from EDGE SF.
Nancy talks about her long-running fascination with vampires, how they may evolve in future tales, and how the stories and this anthology came about.
Cover to Cover #348A: Matthew Stover
Interview: Matthew Stover joins us this week to talk about his two newest books, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor and Caine Black Knife.
Matt gives us a little back story on “The Acts of Caine” series with a little overview of the world in Heroes Die, in which the main character is a bad guy in the truest entertainment sense of the word. The sequel to Caine Black Knife is currently in the works! Keep your eye out for His Father’s Fist…
Cover to Cover #331A: Joe Abercrombie
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 #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 #235: Tim Lebbon
Interview: This week, Michael and Summer talk with dark fantasty/horror author Tim Lebbon about his new fantasy duology, Dusk and Dawn, exploring a world that had lost it’s magic through the changes imminent as magic returns and faction struggle to control the new magic.
Review: “The Boys Are Back In Town” by Christopher Golden
Many people who read and write science fiction believe that through the last few decades science fiction has actually prepared society for future technological advances. The idea, some say, is that in science fiction all the pitfalls, moral uncertainties, and roads best not traveled can be discovered and worked out in the pages of entertaining fiction, rather than bitter experience.
So why won’t this generation learn? If science fiction has taught us one thing, it’s that if you have the ability to go into the past in order to change events and make the world a better place… don’t do it! You’re just gonna fuck it up.
