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Conversations with Authors of Science Fiction and Fantasy
If you’ve ever watched an episode of classic Star Trek, you’re probably familiar with the old adage, “Don’t wear a red shirt.” Odds are you won’t survive until the first commercial break.
John Scalzi’s latest novel Redshirts delves into that old adage as well as several other tropes from not only classic Trek but many of our favorite genre series.
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: 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: Nathan Lowell answered the call for authors who’ve embraced the non-traditional paths for publishing their work.
He was inspired by Dragon Page several years ago and wrote his story geared towards release on Podiobooks, starting with Quarter Share, and continuing with Half Share, Full Share, Double Share, Captain’s Share, and will conclude with Owner’s Share.
Interview: This week, Kris Rusch joins Mike and Mike to talk about her newest book, Diving into the Wreck, just out from Pyr Books. This book grew from a series of space adventure novellas that had previously been serialized in Asimov’s.
Discussion also includes Kris’ Freelancer’s Survival Guide, and some chat about the multimedia influence on the evolution and revolution of news and writing.
Interview: This week, Mike and Summer talk with Edward M. Lerner about Juggler of Worlds, the next book about the Puppeteers. He tells about how the story has progressed from Fleet of Worlds, and the more mysteries about what’s happening to the humans and the Kzinti.
Edward also has a new book in his own universe, Fool’s Experiments, which will be out in November. This story is a near-future tale about the impact of the quest to create artificial life and it’s evolution into artificial intelligence, and how accidents happen despite the best intentions and careful precautions.
Interview: Michael, Summer and Michael talk with Australian author Marianne de Pierres about her latest book, Dark Space, the first book in her new series “The Sentients of Orion”. She’s created a new universe, different from the world in her Parrish Plessis series, one where the races are in a technological race to talk with God, who was discovered in deep space after an ship on a mining exploration run suffers a navigational failure and drifts off course.
This story, at its roots, is about change. Politics, humankind’s place in space and how people who inhabit space are changing. The orbitals want autonomy, the government of Earth wants to maintain control and some want the destruction of both. I recommend picking this book up and enjoying the story contained.
Interview: This week the boys talk to John Meaney about his latest book Context. This is a sequel to Paradox, the second book in the Nulapeiron Sequence. Context is a thrilling, daring and complex novel covering time and space. We also get a sneak preview of another book from John that is due out in the UK very soon.
Timothy Zahn’s a prolific writer with many succesful books both in his own and in other people’s universes.
What’s more, his name makes him eminently suited to be a bad guy in a Star Wars movie himself.
Darth Zahn’s latest book, Night Train to Rigel, delivers why-didn’t-I-think-of-that clever ideas and a zippy plotline that kept me flipping paper to the end.
Yes, we have the amazing and hugely talented Orson Scott Card on the show this week! He’s here to tell us about his latest book Magic Street. A magical world that exists on a hidden street in Hollywood.
After that, Walter Hunt gives us an update on The Dark Crusade. Walter is about to finish up his “Dark” series, and you get an inside scoop on what comes next.
Richard Hatch
Battlestar Galactica is soon to be presented to us all in mini-series form, and Richard is involved (but not as Captain Apollo).
David Lee Summers
David joins us to speak on Vampires of the Scarlet Order, his latest book which deals with vampire mercenaries.
Interview: Science fiction author and fellow blogger John Scalzi joins us to talk about his newest novel, Old Man’s War.
Interview: Alma Alexander joins us to talk about The Secrets of Jin-Shei, an historical fantasy tale which has been called many other things.
Walter H. Hunt
We kidnapped Walt when we found him at WesterCon 57 and took him back to the studio to talk about his latest book, The Dark Ascent.
Interview: Michelle Welch is a local author who was also at WC57. We had a conversation with her on the convention floor about her latest book, The Bright and the Dark.
Interview: Terry Pratchett’s fantasy/science fiction series “Discworld” is a global bestseller and fan favorite, and the latest book in the series is A Hat Full of Sky. Terry’s series (easy to jump in anywhere, by the way) should be required reading for all kids and most adults.
Interview: Today, we’re talking with Timothy Zahn about his young adult series, “The Dragonback”, and the first book in this new series, Dragon and Thief.
