Episodes
Monday Jun 01, 2015
Episode 236: On books to look for
Monday Jun 01, 2015
Monday Jun 01, 2015
Every year there are thousands of books published and any one of them could appeal to you. To help you find great new books, Locus publishes a list of forthcoming titles every three months. And to help you navigate through that, each quarter we invite Locus Editor-in-Chief Liza Groen Trombi to join us and discuss the books that we think might be most interesting that are due out between now and the end of 2015.
- ABERCROMBIE, JOE Half a War, Ballantine Del Rey, Jul 2015 (eb, hc)
- BEAR, GREG Killing Titan, Orbit US, Oct 2015 (hc)
- BENFORD, GREGORY The Best of Gregory Benford, Sub- terranean Press, Jul 2015 (c, eb, hc)
- BIANCOTTI, DEBORAH Waking in Winter, PS Publishing, Jul 2015 (na, hc)
- BLAYLOCK, JAMES P. Beneath London, Titan US, May 2015 (eb, tp)
- BRAY, LIBBA Lair of Dreams, Little, Brown, Aug 2015 (1st US, ya, eb, hc)
- CHO, ZEN Sorcerer to the Crown, Macmillan, Sep 2015 (eb, hc)
- CIXIN, LIU The Dark Forest, Tor, Jul 2015 (eb, hc)
- DE BODARD, ALIETTE House of Shattered Wings, Penguin/Roc, Sep 2015 (1st US, hc)
- DICKINSON, SETH The Traitor Boru Cormorant, Macmillan/Tor UK, Aug 2015 (eb, hc)
- GORODISCHER, ANGELICA Prodigies, Small Beer Press, Aug 2015 (eb, tp)
- HAND, ELIZABETH Wylding Hall, Open Road, Jul 2015
- HOLLAND, CECELIA Dragon Heart, Tor, Sep 2015 (eb, hc)
- HOPKINSON, NALO Falling in Love with Hominids, Tachyon Publications, Aug 2015 (c, tp)
- HURLEY, KAMERON Empire Ascendant, Angry Robot US, Oct 2015 (eb, tp)
- HUTCHISON, DAVE, Europe in Autumn, Solaris, UK/US Nov 2015 (tp)
- KIERNAN, CAITLÍN R. Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea, Subterranean Press, Nov 2015 (c, eb, hc)
- KRESS, NANCY The Best of Nancy Kress, Subterranean Press, Sep 2015 (c, eb, hc)
- LECKIE, ANN Ancillary Mercy, Orbit US, Oct 2015 (tp)
- LIU, KEN The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, Simon & Schuster/Saga Press, Nov 2015 (c, eb, hc)
- McDONALD, IAN Luna: New Moon, Tor, Sep 2015 (eb, hc)
- McDONALD, IAN The Best of Ian MacDonald, PS Publishing, Jun 2015 (c, hc)
- McDONALD, IAN The Locomotives’ Graveyard, PS Publishing, Aug 2015 (na, hc)
- McDONALD, IAN Mars Stories, PS Publishing, Aug 2015 (c, hc)
- MIÉVILLE, CHINA Three Moments of an Explosion, Ballantine Del Rey, Aug 2015 (1st US, c, eb, hc) MITCHELL, DAVID Slade House, Random House, Oct 2015 (eb, hc)
- MORROW, JAMES Reality by Other Means: The Best Short Fiction of James Morrow, Wesleyan University Press, Nov 2015 (c, hc)
- NAGATA, LINDA, The Red:Going Dark, Saga Press, Nov 2015 (hc)
- NIX, GARTH To Hold the Bridge, Harper, Jun 2015 (c, ya, hc)
- PRATCHETT, TERRY The Shepherd’s Crown, HarperCollins, Sep 2015 (ya, hc)
- REYNOLDS, ALASTAIR The Best of Alastair Reynolds, Subterranean Press, Nov 2015 (c, eb, hc)
- RICKERT, MARY The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece: New and Selected Stories, Small Beer Press, Aug 2015 (c, eb, tp)
- ROBERTS, ADAM The Thing Itself, Orion/Gollancz, Dec 2015 (tp)
- SCALZI, JOHN The End of All Things, Tor, Aug 2015 (eb, hc)
- SWANWICK, MICHAEL Chasing the Phoenix, Tor, Aug 2015 (eb, hc)
- WESTERFELD, SCOTT Zeroes (with Margo Lanagan & Debo rah Biancotti), Simon Pulse, Sep 2015 (ya, hc)
- WOLFE, GENE A Borrowed Man, Tor, Oct 2015 (eb, hc)
Saturday May 23, 2015
Episode 235: Elizabeth Hand and Building the Mystery
Saturday May 23, 2015
Saturday May 23, 2015
This week we pay a return visit to World Fantasy Award winning author Elizabeth Hand, discussing her new short novel Wylding Hall, the British folk revival of the 1970s which provides the novel’s background, the use of multiple narrators (and the advantages of audio-books in differentiating them), and such diverse matters as the legacy of Arthur Machen, why there aren’t more fantasy novels about the arts, and what to expect next in her ongoing series of crime novels involving the troubled ex-punk photographer Cass Neary.
As always, our thanks to Liz for making the time to talk to us and we hope you enjoy the podcast!
Sunday May 17, 2015
Episode 234: On World Fantasy Awards, Life Achievement and other rambles
Sunday May 17, 2015
Sunday May 17, 2015
This week we sit down and discuss the World Fantasy Awards, the Life Achievement Award, and quite a lot more. Another old-fashioned ramble for the Coode Street Archives.
Friday May 08, 2015
Episode 233: Paolo Bacigalupi and The Water Knife
Friday May 08, 2015
Friday May 08, 2015
This week we are joined by the Hugo and Nebula Award winning Paolo Bacigalupi, who is just about to publish his first science fiction novel for adults since 2009s The Windup Girl.
In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Colorado River. Into the fray steps Angel Velasquez, detective, leg-breaker, assassin and spy. A Las Vegas water knife, Angel “cuts” water for his boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert, so the rich can stay wet, while the poor get nothing but dust.When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in drought-ravaged Phoenix, Angel is sent to investigate. There, he encounters Lucy Monroe, a hardened journalist with no love for Vegas and every reason to hate Angel, and Maria Villarosa, a young Texas refugee who survives by her wits and street smarts in a city that despises everything that she represents. With bodies piling up, bullets flying, and Phoenix teetering on collapse, it seems like California is making a power play to monopolize the life-giving flow of a river. For Angel, Lucy, and Maria time is running out and their only hope for survival rests in each other’s hands. But when water is more valuable than gold, alliances shift like sand, and the only thing for certain is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.
Sunday May 03, 2015
Episode 232: On canon formation (again)
Sunday May 03, 2015
Sunday May 03, 2015