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Menna Van Praag, "The Sisters Grimm" (Harper Voyager, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Today I talked to Menna Van Praag about her new book The Sisters Grimm (Harper Voyager, 2020)... In a set up reminiscent of the show Orphan Black, four feisty young women struggle to make their way...
ListenPremee Mohamed, "Beneath The Rising" (Solaris, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Premee Mohamed's Beneath the Rising (Solaris, 2020) is simultaneously a far-flung horror story and an exploration of an intimate relationship. At the heart of this novel, full of threatening monste...
ListenLaura Ruby, "Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All" (Balzer and Bray, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Francesca and Toni are brought to the orphanage when their mother suffers a breakdown and dies, and their father gets involved with a new woman. Their story, set in Chicago of the 1940s, unfolds du...
ListenEmily B. Martin, "Sunshield: A Novel" (Harper Voyager, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A frustrated prince out to make a name for himself, a mysterious young woman who goes by the name of the Sunshield Bandit, and a prisoner named Tamsin — Emily B. Martin's Sunshield: A Novel (Harper...
ListenKathleen Jennings, "Flyaway" (Tor.com, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Flyaway (Tor.com) is a rich and simmering stew of vivid images, psychological tension, and dashes of horror which conspire to create an original and startling tale. The convoluted and intertwining ...
ListenBrian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics, a...
ListenS. M. Hardy, "The Evil Within" (Allison and Busby, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jim, our narrator, experiences a crisis of conscience in the wake of the possible suicide of his girlfriend. He quits his high-paying job seizing assets for a loan company and moves to a small vill...
ListenLeslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. Brophy, is the first edited collection of schola...
ListenKeren Landsman, "The Heart of the Circle" (Angry Robot, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
dReed Katz is in many ways an ordinary guy. He shares an apartment in Tel Aviv with his best friend, Daphne, works in a coffee shop, crushes on Lee, a green-eyed man from abroad, and dreads family ...
ListenJoseph Rex Young, "George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form" (Routledge, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“In the game of thrones you either win or you die”––with over 10 million viewers per episode of Game of Thrones, one of the most successful television shows of all time, George R.R. Martin definite...
ListenCarrie Vaughn, "The Immortal Conquistador" (Tachyon Publications, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ricardo de Avila would have followed Coronado to the ends of the earth. Instead, Ricardo found the end of his mortal life, and a new one, as a renegade vampire. For over five hundred years, Ricardo...
ListenPhillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Phillipa Chong, assistant professor in sociology at McM...
ListenGabrielle Mathieu, "Girl of Fire" (Five Directions Press, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the fantasy medieval land of Trea—a conservative society that despite its worship of the goddess Amur respects her human daughters only as wives and mothers—eighteen-year-old Berona has limited ...
ListenSarah Kozloff, "A Queen in Hiding" (Tor, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sarah Kozloff does her world building gradually and carefully, introducing you to a few characters you get to know and care for, before moving on to other lands and cultures. The land of Weirandale...
ListenPriya Sharm, "Ormeshadow" (Tor.com, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A slim volume you can swallow in one melancholy winter afternoon, best with sips of a mellow amber whisky with undertones of peat, Priya Sharm's Ormeshadow (Tor.com, 2019) is about more about human...
ListenChristopher Brown, "Rule of Capture" (Harper Voyager, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Donny Kimoe, a wise-cracking lawyer who used to work for the prosecution and has kept his security clearance, believes in the legal system. His work as a defense attorney will change all that. His ...
ListenKathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trade books in that most of them are what you might...
ListenEmily Roberson, "Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters" (FSG, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Welcome to New Books in fantasy and adventure, a podcast channel on the New Books Network. Today we’ll be talking with Emily Roberson about her debut YA novel, Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters (Farr...
ListenMelissa Albert, "The Hazel Wood" (Flatiron Books, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Melissa Albert's novel The Hazel Wood(Flatiron Books, 2018) is a shivery delight, like a dazzling vintage ball gown of paisley silk, slithering over your head. Reading it is like drowning in musk r...
ListenEyal Kless, "The Lost Puzzler: The Tarakan Chronicles" (Harper Voyager, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A picaresque novel about a serious boy with special powers, The Lost Puzzler takes place in an impoverished, technologically backwards world. After the fall of the advanced Tarakan Empire, the rema...
ListenSharon Shinn, "Echo in Onyx: Uncommon Echoes" (Audible Studios, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brianna, our narrator, is the daughter of a country inn-keeper. Her quick thinking and compassion during a job interview earn her a coveted position as lady’s maid for Lady Marguerite, the daughter...
ListenR. Scott Boyer, "Bobby Ether and the Jade Academy" (2013) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
When sixteen-year-old Bobby Ether is abducted and brought to the secluded Jade Academy in Tibet, monks teach him and other special students how to tap into their Anima—the universal energy that con...
ListenR. F. Kuang, "The Poppy War" (Harper Voyager, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rin, an orphan raised by a family that treats her badly, is no Harry Potter, despite the superficial similarities. No kindly wizards await her; there are no summons from a cute feathered familiar. ...
ListenMadeline Miller, "Circe" (Little, Brown and Company, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Circe is an immortal naiad, the daughter of the Sun God, Helios. Ignored or belittled by her divine kin because of her human-sounding voice, dull-colored hair, and quiet manner, she turns to her li...
ListenMatthew Binder, "The Absolved" (Black Spot Books, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Henri is a middle-aged doctor, one of the few employed people left in the U.S, though the reader suspect his job might be in danger. The hospital administrator, Serena, keeps reducing staff. A larg...
ListenYang-Sze Choo, "The Night Tiger" (Flatiron Books, 2019) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Night Tiger (Flatiron Books, 2019) is much more than just a fantasy novel—it’s also a mystery, a historical novel, and a love story. Yang-Sze Choo accomplishes all this in one deft package. Set...
ListenMarshall Ryan Maresca, "The Way of the Shield" (DAW, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dayne has the highest respect for the order he’s joined, the Tarians. The Tarian warriors adhere to a chivalrous code of honor, though they live in a time period vaguely suggestive of post-Renaissa...
ListenLauren C. Teffeau, "Implanted" (Angry Robot, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Emery, Em for short, is a smart and dedicated college graduate. She anticipates a future in which she, and eventually, her parents, can escape the lower strata of the domed city of New Worth. She h...
ListenAnthony Ryan, “The Empire of Ashes” (Ace, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Draconis Memoria series is comprised of a trilogy set in a world where drake (dragon) blood is a prized commodity, the basis of the trading fortune of the Ironship Syndicate. It is a brilliant,...
ListenSam Hooker, “The Winter Riddle” (Black Spot Books, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you are a young moody woman who likes to wear black, you might well be a witch. Or aspire to be a witch. If you needed a tongue-in-cheek guide on how to behave, you could benefit from picking up...
ListenBernard Cornwell, “War of the Wolf” (Harper, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As seems appropriate for a character as resourceful, skilled, and self-confident as Uhtred of Bebbanburg, he goes from strength to strength. In addition to a set of bestselling novels, collectively...
ListenCat Rambo, “Hearts of Tabat” (WordFire Press, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Cat Rambo‘s Hearts of Tabat (WordFire Press, 2018) is rich in emotions and description, though it revolves around a murder mystery as well. We experience the imaginary port city of Tabat through th...
ListenJulia Fine, “What Should be Wild” (Harper, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
“What should be wild” is really asking who should be wild? Simultaneously a plea against the domestication of women, a unique fairy tale, and impressive literary fiction, this novel explores the ta...
ListenDanielle Teller, “All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother” (William Morrow, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Most of us hear the Cinderella story in childhood: a mean stepmother favors her own daughters and controls her hapless husband, turning the sweet and innocent Cinderella into a scullery maid and re...
ListenPatrice Sarath, “The Sisters Mederos” (Angry Robot, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
There is something almost sweetly Victorian about the new fantasy novel, The Sisters Mederos (Angry Robot, 2018), by Patrice Sarath, which concerns two young sisters enduring misfortune. The openin...
ListenRyan Wieser, “The Glass Blade” (Kensington, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Lean, mean, and a fighting machine. That could describe lovely Jessop, psychologically and physically scarred at the hands of a former Infinity Hunter with the catchy name of Falco Bane. Jessop plo...
ListenJo Woolf, “The Great Horizon: 50 Tales of Exploration” (Sandstone Press, 2018) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Hello from Gabrielle at the NBN Fantasy and Adventure channel. This podcast will be about adventure, and what could be more adventurous than traveling to a far-away place thats hard to get to, and ...
ListenJason Arnopp, “The Last Days of Jack Sparks” (Orbit, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A modern morality tale lurks under this fast-paced horror novel. Jason Arnopp‘s The Last Days of Jack Sparks (Orbit, 2016) consists of the diary of a fictional character, Jack Sparks, along with a ...
ListenOctavia Randolph, “Silver Hammer, Golden Cross” (Pyewacket Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Silver Hammer, Golden Cross (Pyewacket Press, 2017) is sixth in the series of the Circle of Ceridwen series. It begins by exploring the friendship of two young heirs, Ceric, of Saxon descent and Hr...
ListenClaude Lalumiere, “Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment” (Guernica Editions, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Pungently sensual, Claude Lalumiere‘s Venera Dreams: A Weird Entertainment (Guernica Editions, 2017), is a carnal carnival ride, circling around the central conceit. There’s a city-state by the nam...
ListenMegan Haskell, “Sanyare: The Rebel Apprentice, Vol. 3” (Trabuco Ridge Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rie is a more than a hundred years old, and sometimes she feels like it, even if she looks like any other human girl. After uncovering a plot to create war between the nine realms, she and her frie...
ListenLinnea Hartsuyker, “The Half-Drowned King” (Harper, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ragnvald Eysteinsson is returning from years raiding in Ireland under the leadership of Solvi and focused on winning a contest with his fellow sailors when Solvi attacks. Ragnvald falls into the fj...
ListenJames Morrow, “The Asylum of Dr. Caligari” (Tachyon Publications, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Asylum of Dr. Caligari (Tachyon Publications, 2017) is a deft little novel, is a perfect fit for people who are not just interested in fantasy, but also history, art, geography and linguistics....
ListenLinda Nagata, “The Last Good Man” (Mythic Island Press, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In The Last Good Man (Mythic Island Press, 2017), Linda Nagata uses a brisk and bracing writing style to immerse us into the lives of private military contractors, in the near future. The team, bas...
ListenDavid Kushner, “Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D and D” (Nation Books, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rise of the Dungeon Master: Gary Gygax and the Creation of D and D (Nation Books, 2017) by David Kushner and illustrated by Koren Shadmi is a gorgeous depiction of the late E. Gary Gygax’s life and...
ListenMichael Witwer, “Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragons” (Bloomsbury, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons and Dragons (Bloomsbury, 2015) by Michael Witwer is an exceptional biography of the co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons, E. Gary Gygax. Wi...
ListenGabrielle Mathieu, “The Falcon Flies Alone” (Five Directions Press, 2016) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Peppa Mueller has a lot going for her. The daughter of a deceased Harvard professor who gave her an eclectic upbringing, she is heir to his fortune, and Radcliffe has accepted her application for u...
ListenNicky Drayden, “The Prey of Gods” (Harper Voyager, 2017) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The Prey of the Gods, published by Harper Voyager on June 13th, is Nicky Drayden‘s debut novel, though she’s published many short stories. It’s a compassionate work, despite a neglected blood-thirs...
ListenDavid M. Ewalt, “Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons and Dragons and The People Who Play It” (Scribner, 2013) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David M. Ewalt‘s book Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons and Dragons and The People Who Play It (Scribner, 2013) is at once a love letter, cultural history, and succinct analysis of the rolepla...
ListenAssaph Mehr, “Murder in Absentia: A Story of Togas, Daggers, and Magic” (Purple Toga Publications, 2015) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Assaph Mehr‘s Murder in Absentia: A Story of Togas, Daggers, and Magic (Purple Toga Publications, 2015) is Egretia, a town in a fantasy world modeled on the Roman Empire, and the occasion is the cr...
ListenEvan Winter, "The Fires of Vengeance" (Orbit Books, 2020) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In order to reclaim her throne and save her people, an ousted queen must join forces with a young warrior in the second book of this"relentlessly gripping, brilliant" epic fantasy series from a bre...
ListenKatherine Addison, “The Goblin Emperor” (Tor Books, 2014) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Katherine Addison‘s The Goblin Emperor has earned what might be termed a fantasy Grand Slam: the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and nominations for the Nebula, Hugo and World Fantasy awards. To...
ListenChuck Adler, “Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction” (Princeton UP, 2014) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
[Re-posted with permission from Wild About Math] I’ve admitted before that Physics and I have never gotten along. But, science fiction is something I enjoy. So, when Princeton University Press sent...
ListenChuck Adler, “Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction” (Princeton UP, 2014) from 2014-02-14T17:16
[Re-posted with permission from Wild About Math] I’ve admitted before that Physics and I have never gotten along. But, science fiction is something I enjoy. So, when Princeton University Press sent...
ListenChuck Adler, “Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction” (Princeton UP, 2014) from 2014-02-14T17:16
[Re-posted with permission from Wild About Math] I’ve admitted before that Physics and I have never gotten along. But, science fiction is something I enjoy. So, when Princeton University Press sent...
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