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Cover to Cover #443: Alan Dean Foster

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Interview: This week, our guest is Alan Dean Foster, and his latest SF novel is The Human Blend, and his newest book is a memoir, Predators I Have Known (coming out as a first print digital edition).

In The Human Blend, he explores a world where genetic engineering and body modifications are widely in use, including as punishments for criminals. It’s the first book in his new “The Tipping Point” trilogy.

Predators I Have Known chronicles his adventure travels around the world. Open Road Media, the publisher, has also incorporated some of the video that Alan has shot over the years into the ebook

Cover to Cover #396A: Nina Munteanu

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Interview: Canadian SF author Nina Munteanu drops by today to talk about writing!

Her latest book is a writer’s guide, The Fiction Writer: Get Published, Write Now!, and Nina talks about the obstacles (real and imagined) facing new writers today, teaching writing, the possibilities on the direction of the future of storytelling, and more.

Cover to Cover #392A: Jake Black, “The Official Ender Companion”

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Interview: Jake Black, co-author of The Official Ender Companion, joins Mike and Mke to chat about the definitive encyclopedia of the Ender universe. Jake talks about his introduction to and immersion into the stories and characters of the “Ender’s Game” universe, the process of making sure all of the facts and data were accurate and complete, and more.

Cover to Cover #361A: Dr Michio Kaku

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Interview: Mike, Brian and Mike talk with Dr Michio Kaku, world-renowned theoretical physicist, about his book Physics of the Impossible, which examines the technologies of science fiction that don’t exist today, and differentiates between which ones can exist today, which ones could exist with large technological and scientific advances, and which ones are truly impossible because they violate known laws of physics.

Want to have fun arguing about the impossible ones? Pick up this book and bring up the topics with your geek friends!

Review: “The Battle for Azeroth: Adventure, Alliance and Addiction”

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Touted as a book of “Insights into the World of Warcraft“, The Battle for Azeroth: Adventure, Alliance and Addiction is more of a class guide and compendium of essays about the different aspects of Blizzard Entertainment’s smash hit game. Players and non-playing family and friends will likely find something of interest in this book.

Cover to Cover #150: Dr. Fred Alan Wolf

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Who would have thought you could combine Yoga and time travel together? Sure sounds like science fiction… but maybe it’s not? If you saw What the %$@ Do We Know in the theaters, you know how strange things get when you look at the quantum level. Dr Fred Alan Wolf’s new book is The Yoga of Time Travel, and explores the notion of how the mind influences our own reality… and even time.

Cover to Cover #149: Wil Wheaton / Scott Nicholson

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Interview: Wil Wheaton is, by his own admission, Just a Geek. Hands down one of the most funny and deep guests we’ve had on the show, Wil joins us to talk about his book, what’s inside and where it all came from.

Interview: Scott Nicholson is our favorite spooky boy from the Appalachians, and we talk about his new Appalachian Gothic novel The Manor, once again inspired by some place right near where Scott lives.

Cover to Cover #93: F. Paul Wilson / George Beahm

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F. Paul Wilson
Paul’s latest book is Gateways, the latest in his Repairman Jack series. Paul’s books span many generas (and is now in sci-fi) with the same main character – Repairman Jack. What started in 1984 has continued through seven books… and keeps picking up fans along the way.

George Beahm
Are you a Lord of the Rings fan? Looking for that last special piece to finish off your collection of Frodo figurines? You’ll need to get George’s latest book, The Essential J.R.R. Tolkien Sourcebook: A Fan’s Guide to Middle-earth and Beyond.

Review: “The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy”

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I heard recently that eighty-one percent of Americans believe they have a book in them. I believe if you polled fantasy fans, that number would be in the nineties. And I’m just talking novels, I’m not including all the movie and TV screenplays we have in mind. It’s one of the best aspects of being science fiction and fantasy fans: you live a big chunk of your life in your imagination.

But, ask anyone who has ever tried to write fantasy, and he or she will tell you. It ain’t easy. How do you make a fantasy world? How do I make up a type of magic that doesn’t seem stupid? How do I make interesting characters? And on, and on, and on.

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!