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Conversations with Authors of Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Cover to Cover #105: Ray Bradbury / Howard V. Hendrix

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Ray Bradbury
Legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury joins us on the show this week! Let me repeat that. Ray Bradbury is on the show! Sixty years of writing, and the man is still going strong. Would you believe he has a new collection coming out this summer! Ray talks about The Cat’s Pajamas, his well-received television series… and how modern science fiction and fantasy stacks up against his generation.

Howard V. Hendrix
Break out your thinking cap people, as we talk with Howard about his latest book, The Labyrinth Key. It’s hard science fiction, mingling quantum computing and alternate universes with global espionage. Howard like to make sure the science in his work matches the real science happening in the real world today– and pushing that envelope up a few notches.

Cover to Cover #100: Sir Arthur C. Clarke / Robert J. Sawyer

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Sir Arthur C. Clarke
In between us two geeks slobbering all over ourselves, we manage to ask Sir Arthur a few germane questions about his new book, Time’s Eye, written with Stephen Baxter

Robert J. Sawyer
Not only is Rob an award-winning science fiction author, but he’s also a raging Arthur C. Clarke fan just like the two of us! We talk about how influential Sir Arthur has been in this profession, as well

Cover to Cover #99: Robert Jordan / Vernor Vinge

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Robert Jordan
Fantasy legend Robert Jordan joins us to speak about his new book in The Wheel of Time series. It’s called New Spring: The Novel and is a prequel to his ground-breaking and required reading series.

Vernor Vinge
Keeping with our promise to bring you the best authors this month, we’ve got three time Hugo award winning author Vernor Vinge. His latest released book (which Evo highly recommends) is The Peace War, which was written years ago but has been re-released.

Cover to Cover #98: Gary Tigerman

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Interview: Is there evidence of intelligent life on Mars? Other than our unfortunate probes, that is. That’s the topic of discussion in Gary’s new novel, The Orion Protocol. Government corruption, espionage, intrigue… all are part of thriller novel with a science fiction element. And maybe, just maybe, it might be true.

Review: “Jump Start” by Gary Carter

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All in all, though I think the book is flawed, I wanted to keep reading. I wanted to see how the story ended, which is a lot more I can say about other books I’ve reviewed.

I feel a bit flummoxed when it comes to rating this book. I enjoyed reading it, I don’t deny that, but the entire time I’m also thinking how much better it could be. Since I’m torn down the middle, I’ll tear the rating down the middle as well.

Cover to Cover #92: Richard Hatch

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Interview: We’re talking about (and with) actor & author Richard Hatch, from (among many things) “Battlestar Galactica”!

While he was not involved with the latest SciFi Channel mini-series of the same name, Richard has written seven “Battlestar Galactica” books, carrying the theme and storylines from the original series. His latest book you can buy is Paradis, with another due next spring. We’ll talk about what was, what is and what could have been with Battlestar and many other great sci-fi.

Cover to Cover #91: Robert Reed / Michelle M. Welch

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Interview: Robert Reed’s latest book, Sister Alice, asks What would the universe be like if mankind achieved technological advances that made us no less than gods? What started as a simple novella turned into wonderful tale of epic hard science fiction.

Interview: Do you like spy novels? Like fantasy? Michelle Welch’s new book Confidence Game is just what you are looking for. It’s her debut novel, and is filled with political intrigue, preindustrial (sort of) con artists and an interesting take on “magic”.

Cover to Cover #87: Connie Willis / Lynn Terelle

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Connie Willis
Passage is a book about near-death experiences. But unlike most of the “factual” tales, Connie wrote this with science fiction in mind. It’s not an examination of the truth, but an exploration of how sci-fi might explain it.

Lynn Terelle
Lynn tackles the moral challenges of cloning in her book, The Book of Daniel. In this book, cloning is both responsible for a global apocalypse and our species only salvation.

Cover to Cover #83: Spider Robinson / Wil Radcliffe

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Spider Robinson
His latest book is Callahan’s Con, the next in a series of science fiction books Spider has been writing for over thirty years. If your unfamiliar with the “Callahan” series, it centers around a bar in Key West populated with aliens, time travelers… and in this book, a wanna-be gangster– from outer space.

Wil Radcliffe
Wil’s debut novel is called Noggle Stones, a young adult fantasy. This book takes place in the late 1800’s in America, but gets blended with faeries and goblins!

Cover to Cover #80: L. E. Modesitt, Jr / Tee Morris

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Interview: L.E. Modesitt, Jr. has been described as writing “fantasy with rivets.” That comment comes from the incredible amount of realism and attention to details not often found in fantasy literature.

Interview: Tee Morrisjoins us live in the studio! Visiting for the recent CopperCon, Tee talks a bit about a new book to which he contributed called The Complete Guide to Writing Fantasy.

Cover to Cover #74: Kevin J. Anderson / Nick Pollotta

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Interview: Kevin J. Anderson is without a doubt one of the hardest working authors in science fiction and fantasy. This guy just won’t quit! His latest effort is A Forest of Stars, part of the “Saga of Seven Suns”.

Interview: Want a bit of humor tossed in with your fantasy/sci-fi? Nick Pollatta is the man for you. We were excited to have him on the air, as humor is so often overlooked in this genre.

Cover to Cover #73: Brian Herbert / Robert D. Miles

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Brian Herbert.
Brian Herbert‘s new book is Dreamer of Dune. Brian has penned six original “Dune” novels that serve as prequels to his fathers work.

Robert D. Miles.
“Do you have the spirit of adventure? Are you willing to work? Come sail with us!” That’s an ad that gets characters involved in Robert D. Miles‘ latest work, SafeSpace. Humans wrecking the planet, aliens trying to save it, other aliens trying to hasten the fall– Robert covers it all in his book.

Review: “The Book of Daniel” by Lynn Terelle

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Imagine an entire world populated only by men. The oldest have only recollections of their wives and mothers. The youngest have never even seen a woman except in old movies and photographs. Who would hold all the cards in a world like this? The one who could bring the women back.

Review: “Peace & Memory” by Mark W. Tiedemann

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What does Mark W. Tiedemann’s Peace and Memory offer? It has an interesting, well thought out universe, a bizarre and entertaining ensemble of characters, thought provoking dialogue on social and political issues, action, adventure, twists, turns, irony, and a hair raising finale.

Which is why, for the life of me, I can’t understand why I didn’t like it more.