science fiction

Interview: Mike and Mike chat with Brian D’Amato about his new book, In The Courts of the Sun. This is the first of the Sacrifice Game series, the story follows Jed DeLanda, a Mayan math prodigy in 2012, who agrees to help his mentor decipher a newly discovered Mayan Codex — by sending his mind back in time to learn more about the “sacrifice game” in the hopes of saving the world.

Brian talks about the extensive research into Mesoamerica and the Mayan language, the theories and prophecies surrounding Dec 21, 2012 and the end of current cycle of the Mayan Calendar, and more!

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?

Interview: Michael, Summer and Michael talk with Kenneth Johnson. Kenny is more known for creating the television shows “V”, “The Bionic Woman” (the original series), “The Incredible Hulk”, and “Alien Nation”, but he’s also got a new book out, V: The Second Generation.

Kenny tells us about the inspiration for the story, from when he was preparing the DVD release of the original miniseries, and he wondered what would happen if someone answered the distress call that was sent into space. So the book starts from when someone arrives in response to the call the Resistance sent out.

Interview: First time author Leslie Davis tells us how her college thesis became a work of science fiction, Keeper’s Child. She tells us about the beginnings of the story, with it being initially written when environmental concerns weren’t in the forefront of the media at the time she wrote it, and being the thesis work written by the lone geek in her MFA program.

Interview: Michael, Summer, Michael and Brian talk with Minister Faust about his most recent novel, From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain. If you’re ready for an off-kilter look at a superhero universe, from the self-help book written by the therapist who specializes in working with the hyperabled human with all-to-common emotional and mental distresses.