This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Gail Carriger , author of DIVINITY 36 . About DIVINITY 36 : Phex is a barista on a forgotten moon. Which is fine – he likes being ignored and he’s good at making drinks. Until one day an alien hears him singing and recruits him to become a god. Now Phex is thrust headfirst into the galaxy’s most cutthroat entertainment industry, where music is visible, the price of fame can kill, and the only friends he has want to be worshiped. Welcome to the divinity. Where...
May 02, 2023•54 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Kat Howard , author of A SLEIGHT OF SHADOWS . About A SLEIGHT OF SHADOWS : After taking down the source of the corruption of the Unseen World, Sydney is left with almost no magical ability. Feeling estranged from herself, she is determined to find a way back to her status as one of the world’s most dangerous magicians. Unfortunately, she needs to do this quickly: the House of Shadows, the hell on earth that shaped her into who she was, the place she sacrifice...
Apr 25, 2023•32 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Daniel M. Ford , author of THE WARDEN . About THE WARDEN : There was a plan. She had the money, the connections, even the brains. It was simple: become one of the only female necromancers, earn as many degrees as possible, get a post in one of the grand cities, then prove she’s capable of greatness. The funny thing about plans is that they are seldom under your control. Now Aelis de Lenti, a daughter of a noble house and recent graduate of the esteemed Magist...
Apr 11, 2023•45 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Emily Tesh , author of SOME DESPERATE GLORY . About SOME DESPERATE GLORY : Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her gener...
Apr 04, 2023•47 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Julie Novakova and Susan Forest , two of the driving forces behind Life Beyond Us: An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays . About Life Beyond Us: An Original Anthology of SF Stories and Science Essays : How would first contact—on earth, in space, on another planet—transform our understandings of technology, philosophy, and what it means to be human? What kind of cognitive dissonance would society experience, if we discovered a previously unrec...
Mar 28, 2023•50 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome S.B. Divya , author of MERU . About MERU : For five centuries, human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy. But when the Earthlike planet of Meru is discovered, two unlikely companions venture forth to test the habitability of this unoccupied new world and the future of human-alloy relations. For Jayanthi, the adopted human child of alloy parents, it’s an opportunity to rectify the ancient reput...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 1 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Steve Scearce and Bear Weiter from the Station 151 Podcast . About Station 151 : Located on Alexander Island, Antarctica, Station 151 is the southernmost continent’s first and only astronomical radio observatory. Built by the Telders Corporation at an estimated cost of $200M USD, Station 151 is comprised of 50 radio antennas arrayed in a spiral configuration. Astrophysicist Wayne Robertson was hired by The Telders Corporation as the sole operator of Station 1...
Mar 14, 2023•59 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Moses Ose Utomi , author of THE LIES OF THE AJUNGO . About THE LIES OF THE AJUNGO : They say there is no water in the City of Lies. They say there are no heroes in the City of Lies. They say there are no friends beyond the City of Lies. But would you believe what they say in the City of Lies? In the City of Lies, they cut out your tongue when you turn thirteen, to appease the terrifying Ajungo Empire and make sure it continues sending water. Tutu will be thir...
Mar 07, 2023•54 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Aliette de Bodard , author of The Red Scholar’s Wake . About The Red Scholar’s Wake : Xích Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just been captured by the Red Banner pirate fleet, famous for their double-dealing and cruelty. Xích Si expects to be tortured to death-only for the pirates’ enigmatic leader, Rice Fish, to arrive with a different and shocking proposition: an arranged marriage between Xích Si and he...
Feb 28, 2023•50 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome David R. Slayton , author of White Trash Warlock , Trailer Park Trickster and available for pre-order now, Deadbeat Druid . About White Trash Warlock : Not all magicians go to schools of magic. Adam Binder has the Sight. It’s a power that runs in his bloodline: the ability to see beyond this world and into another, a realm of magic populated by elves, gnomes, and spirits of every kind. But for much of Adam’s life, that power has been a curse, hindering friend...
Feb 14, 2023•53 min
