This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Curtis C. Chen , author of TRUE BLUE KANGAROO . About TRUE BLUE KANGAROO : Welcome to the spacefaring future, where humanity travels between planets with ease and has abused that power to establish outposts in some questionable places. Take Venus, for example: a sister world to Mother Earth, similar in size and gravity, it’s also known for having a toxic atmosphere and hellish landscape at ground level. But climate-controlled habitat domes stay in eternal sun...
Oct 29, 2024•1 hr
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Two-Time Hugo Award winner Paul Weimer . About Paul Weimer : Paul Weimer is a Two-Time 2024 Hugo Award winner for Fan Writer and Fanzine (Editor). Not really a Prince of Amber, but rather, an ex-pat New Yorker living in Minnesota, Paul Weimer has been reading sci-fi and fantasy for over 40 years. An avid and enthusiastic amateur photographer, blogger and podcaster, Paul primarily contributes to the Skiffy and Fanty Show as blogger and podcaster, to Nerds of a...
Oct 22, 2024•51 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome John Jackson Miller , author of BATMAN: RESURRECTION . About BATMAN: RESURRECTION : The Joker is dead, but not forgotten. Gotham City is saved, but it is still not safe. By night, its new symbol of hope, Batman, continues his fight to protect the innocent and the powerless. By day, his alter ego, Bruce Wayne, wonders whether there may someday be a future beyond skulking the city’s rooftops or the cavernous halls of his stately manor alongside the ever-dutiful...
Oct 08, 2024•55 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Luis Jaramillo , author of The Witches of El Paso . About The Witches of El Paso : 1943, El Paso, Texas: teenager Nena spends her days caring for the small children of her older sisters, while longing for a life of freedom and adventure. The premonitions and fainting spells she has endured since childhood are getting worse, and Nena worries she’ll end up like the scary old curandera down the street. Nena prays for help, and when the mysterious Sister Benedict...
Oct 01, 2024•49 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Martha Wells , author of the updated and revised version of Wheel of the Infinite . About the updated and revised version of Wheel of the Infinite : A traitor and a swordsman join forces to save the world from being rewritten into devastation. Every year the image of the Wheel of the Infinite must be painstakingly remade to ensure another year of peace and harmony for the Celestial Empire. Every hundred years the very fabric of the world must be rewoven. Link...
Sep 24, 2024•48 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Peter F. Hamilton , author of Exodus: The Archimedes Engine . About Exodus: The Archimedes Engine : In a past age, humanity fled a dying Earth in massive ark ships. These searched the galaxy to find a new home. Then one fleet found Centauri, a dense cluster of stars teeming with habitable planets. Now, thousands of years later, Centauri’s settlers have evolved into advanced beings known as Celestials – and their great houses rule vast star systems. As they vi...
Sep 10, 2024•53 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Stephanie Wrobel , author of THE HITCHCOCK HOTEL . About THE HITCHCOCK HOTEL : Alfred Smettle is not your average Hitchcock fan. He is the founder, owner, and manager of The Hitchcock Hotel, a sprawling Victorian house in the White Mountains dedicated to the Master of Suspense. There, Alfred offers his guests round-the-clock film screenings, movie props and memorabilia in every room, plus an aviary with fifty crows. To celebrate the hotel’s first anniversary,...
Aug 20, 2024•49 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Ken Liu , translator of Laozi’s Dao De Jing . About Laozi’s Dao De Jing : Laozi’s Dao De Jing was written around 400 BC by a compassionate soul in a world torn by hatred and ambition, dominated by those that yearned for apocalyptic confrontations and prized ideology over experience. By speaking out against the cleverness of elites and the arrogance of the learned, Laozi upheld the wisdom of the concrete, the humble, the quotidian, the everyday individual dism...
Aug 13, 2024•1 hr 1 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Unexploded Remnants , author of Elaine Gallagher . About Unexploded Remnants : Alice is the last human. Street-smart and bad-ass. After discovering what appears to be an A.I. personality in an antique data core, Alice decides to locate its home somewhere in the stargate network. At the very least, she wants to lay him to rest because, as it turns out, she’s stumbled upon the sentient control unit of a deadly ancient weapon system. Convincing the ghost of a ra...
Aug 06, 2024•47 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Hana Lee , author of ROAD TO RUIN . About ROAD TO RUIN : Jin-Lu has the most dangerous job in the wasteland. She’s a magebike courier, one of the few who venture outside the domed cities on motorcycles powered by magic. Every day, she braves the wasteland’s dangers—deadly storms, roving marauders, and territorial beasts—to deliver her wares. Her most valuable cargo? A prince’s love letters addressed to Yi-Nereen, a princess desperate to escape the clutches of...
Jul 30, 2024•49 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Mary Robinette Kowal , author of Silent Spaces . About Silent Spaces : Silent Spaces: Tales from the Lady Astronauts is a collection of 9 short stories in the Lady Astronaut Series written by Mary Robinette Kowal, including one written just for this collection. With this campaign the book will be available in print for the first time in English as a Softcover, and a Limited Edition Signed and Numbered Hardcover! About Mary Robinette Kowal : Mary Robinette Kow...
Jul 23, 2024•40 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Lynne and Michael Damian Thomas , Co-Publishers/Co-Editors-in-Chief of UNCANNY MAGAZINE . About Uncanny Magazine Year 11: This One Goes to ELEVEN : Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas have run Kickstarters for the seven-time Hugo Award-winning and 2024 Locus Award-winning Uncanny Magazine Years One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten. We promised to bring you stunning cover art, passionate science fiction and fantasy fiction and ...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 7 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Audrey Burges , author of A House Like An Accordion . About A House Like An Accordion : Keryth Miller is disappearing. Between the growing distance from her husband, the demands of two teenage daughters, and an all-encompassing burnout, she sometimes feels herself fading away. Actual translucence, though—that’s new. When Keryth wakes up one morning with her hand completely gone, she is frantic. But she quickly realizes two things: If she is disappearing, it’s...
Jul 10, 2024•51 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Josh Malerman , author of Incidents Around the House . About Incidents Around the House : To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth. But there is also Other Mommy, a malevolent entity who asks her every day: “Can I go inside your heart?” When horrifying incidents around the house signal that Other Mommy is growing tired of asking Bela the question over and over, Bela understands that unless she says yes, her famil...
Jul 02, 2024•58 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Peng Shepherd , author of ALL THIS AND MORE . About ALL THIS AND MORE : Meek, play-it-safe Marsh has just turned forty-five, and her life is in shambles. Her career is stagnant, her marriage has imploded, and her teenage daughter grows more distant by the day. Marsh is convinced she’s missed her chance at everything—romance, professional fulfillment, and adventure—and is desperate for a do-over. She can’t believe her luck when she’s selected to be the star of...
Jun 25, 2024•46 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam , author of GRIM ROOT . About GRIM ROOT : On the set of The Groom, a group of women must compete for the heart of Midwestern bachelor Tristan by spending a week in a haunted house. Divorcee Linda, resigned to her role as the show’s underdog, finds her resolve cracking when she begins to fall for fellow castmate Charity. Meanwhile, Sabrina, groomed by her witchy mother to deliver their family from poverty by marrying a rich man, sees winn...
Jun 18, 2024•51 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Sarah Pinsker , author of Haunt Sweet Home . About Haunt Sweet Home : When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin’s ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy attitude toward duplicity. But as she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents on set and a creepy ...
Jun 11, 2024
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Ari Marmell , author of Dust, Obelisks, Book One . About Dust, Obelisks, Book One : For Flight Engineer Cynthia Han and her fellow astronauts aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 81 has proved as mundane as space travel ever gets. Yes, this would be Cynthia’s final NASA mission, for reasons she’s so far kept from the rest of the crew; and yes, the latest billionaire “space tourist” has managed to irritate everyone on board. Still, none of them c...
May 07, 2024•55 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Maurice Broaddus , author of Black Panther: T’Challa Declassified . About Black Panther: T’Challa Declassified : He’s a king, a hero, a loving brother and son, a husband to a goddess. The orphan king—the Haramu-Fal—and the Damisa-Sarki. And a man facing his doubts, his failures, and his destiny. Revisit the life of one of Marvel Comics’ most iconic and inspiring characters via in-world interviews, journal entries, newspaper articles, and intelligence briefing...
Apr 30, 2024•54 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Tim Akers , author of The Eccentrics . About The Eccentrics : Led by the eighth incarnation of Nikola Tesla, the Society of Eccentric Geniuses protects the Mundane world from the horrors of the Gestalt, a timeline of the future that never was. Powered by SCIENCE and steam, the Eccentrics travel the world in their airship, righting wrongs and rescuing troubled suitors, mad scientists, and optimistic engineers, often from monsters of their own creation. But now...
Apr 23, 2024•50 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Charlie Huston , author of CATCHPENNY . About CATCHPENNY : Sidney Catchpenny has had a bad run. Laid low by a years-long bout of debilitating depression, he’s all but squandered his reputation as one of the most uniquely talented thieves in LA. There aren’t many who can do what Sid does. He’s a sly, a special kind of crook with the uncanny ability to move through mirrors. And the spoils he’s after are equally unusual. Forget jewels and cold cash—Sid steals cu...
Apr 09, 2024•59 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Madeleine Roux , author of What If…Loki Was Worthy? . About What If…Loki Was Worthy? : Thor—Son of Odin, God of Thunder, Wielder of Mjolnir—is dead. And Loki is responsible. It was meant to be only a joke—tampering with the Destroyer, changing Thor’s course to Midgard—a bit of mischief with a chance of maiming. But Loki’s harmless prank spiraled out of control, unleashing death and destruction on New York City and the heroes sworn to protect it. The city was ...
Apr 02, 2024•55 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Chris Radcliff , who backed the Uncanny Magazine Year 10: A Decade of Delightful Defiance Kickstarter at the THIRD NERD level! About Chris Radcliff : Software engineer, space nerd, citizen scientist, geek dad, weird kid, and Uncanny Magazine Kickstarter backer! Mentioned in this episode: Upstart Crow SpaceUp Unconference About Uncanny Magazine Year 10: A Decade of Delightful Defiance Kickstarter : Funding to support Year 10 of Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magaz...
Mar 26, 2024•1 hr 8 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy are chatting about a Publisher’s Weekly article on Brandon Sanderson’s Audible announcement. This leads us down the path of talking royalty splits, agents and the publishing ecosystem, as well as the difference between a guild and a union, SFWA, RWA and more. This week’s picks: Tracy: GreenLight: Debit Card for Kids and Teens (App) Patrick: The Greatest Night In Pop (Netflix) SPECIAL NOTE AND LINK: Locus – The Magazine of The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field – is ...
Mar 19, 2024•55 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome James Goodhand , author of The Day Tripper . About The Day Tripper : The right guy, the right place, the wrong time. It’s 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a brutal encounter with a ghost from his past sees him beaten, battered and almost drowning in the Thames. He wakes the next day to find he’s in a messy, derelict room ...
Mar 12, 2024•51 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Moses Ose Utomi , author of The Truth of the Aleke . About The Truth of the Aleke : The Aleke is cruel. The Aleke is clever. The Aleke is coming. 500 years after the events of The Lies of the Ajungo, the City of Truth stands as the last remaining free city of the Forever Desert. A bastion of freedom and peace, the city has successfully weathered near-constant attacks from the Cult of Tutu, who have besieged it for three centuries, attempting to destroy its wa...
Mar 05, 2024•45 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome James Enge , author of EVIL HONEY , a new Morlock Ambrosius short story. About Old Moon Quarterly: Issue 3, Winter 2023 : Old Moon Quarterly is a small, independent online magazine devoted to publishing weird sword-and-sorcery fiction set in a historical paranormal setting or a secondary-world, with a focus on well-rounded characters driving strange action. About EVIL HONEY: Morlock runs afoul of the god of bees and is forced to enter a society stained by evi...
Feb 27, 2024•48 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome T.R. Napper , author of Aliens: Bishop . About Aliens: Bishop : The USCSS Patna has been found. Although the synthetic Bishop asked to be shut down forever, his creator has other plans. Michael Bishop seeks the Xenomorph knowledge stored in the android’s mind, and brings Bishop back to life—but for what reason? No longer an employee of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Michael tells his creation that he seeks to advance medical research for the benefit of human...
Feb 20, 2024•54 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Amanda Jayatissa , author of ISLAND WITCH . About ISLAND WITCH : Set in 19th century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, the daughter of a traditional demon-priest—relentlessly bullied by peers and accused of witchcraft herself—tries to solve the mysterious attacks that have been terrorizing her coastal village. Being the daughter of the village Capuwa, or demon-priest, Amara is used to keeping mostly to herself. Influenced by the new religious practice...
Feb 13, 2024•52 min
This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Ray Nayler , author of The Tusks of Extinction . About The Tusks of Extinction : Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again. Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behavior, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world’s last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth. As the herd’s new matriarch...
Feb 06, 2024•49 min
