Help us decide the June “Sword” pick! All of the options come from fantasy authors we’ve recently interviewed. If something caught your ear during an interview, now is the time to make your voice heard!
Promise of Blood
Moth and Spark
Shades of Milk and Honey
Hounded
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Haven’t you wondered how orcs and goblins and other monsters see the world? Do they feel unfairly vilified? Jim C. Hines can help you walk a mile in their— scaly misshapen feet. Find out why the author of the Goblin Series finds book-cover poses personally painful and whether he’ll give you a fire spider!
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We’re very excited to have Bryan Benson on the show today, who backed our Kickstarter for season 2 of video, and got to pick this month’s book. He’s a game designer, author and all around great guy. Plus, he helped us to realize that JJ Abrams has become the destroyer of canonicity in SciFi.
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WHAT ARE WE DRINKING?
Tom: Water
Veronica: Bulleit Rye
QUICK BURNS
All existing EU novels will be rebranded as “Star Wars Legends” and considered non-canon.
Ernie Cline helping search for lost ET cartridges
Bookshelf posted A large collection of Spaceship concept art
WINNER: 2014 Philip K. Dick Award – SF Signal
PICKS
David writes: about Farina by George Meredith.
Veronica: Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #3)
Tom: Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
May 20 : My Real Children by Jo Walton
Find more upcoming releases at swordandlaser.com/calendar
BOOK OF THE MONTH DISCUSSION
A Dance of Cloaks by David Dalglish
BARE YOUR SWORD
How about a S&L award at the end of the year?
The Martian has been Sword and Lasered?
ADDENDUMS
The Sword and Laser Antholgy: You. Can. Buy it NOW!
THANKS BRYAN BENSON at twitter.com/asherrainguart
What kind of mind can write about a faerie war in Shakespearian England and Lovecraftian Nightmares in depression-era Maine? The kind of mind that can also win a Campbell award for best new writer and then go on to notch a couple Hugos. That’s the kind of mind that sits inside the cranium of Elizabeth Bear. We got a chance to talk to Ms. Bear and find out her mind on a few issues and ask her some of your questions too!
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Frozen brides! An espionage finishing school! Time-traveling romances! The Sync Up host Veronica Belmont discusses the most outrageous — but riveting — reads for geek girls and reveals her favorite of the bunch. All Veronica’s picks feature strong leading ladies, so needless to say you’ll see these titles on our bedside tables. Watch the segment, and find out which five books geek girls should put on their reading lists.
Travel fantasy writer Anthony St. Clair (Home Sweet Road, Martini Destiny) is on the forefront of a new genre involving beer and travel, plus he reveals the secret for planning a book with one word.
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Kevin Hearne was an English teacher who put up with rejection from twenty three agents and five publishers before he finally prevailed. Thank goodness he did! We would have never been able to meet Oberon! Oh, and Atticus too, of course. We ask Kevin many many things including if we can expect a TV or graphic novel adaptation, and why chicken apple sausages?
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We’re very excited that James S. A. Corey’s ‘The Expanse’ is being made into a TV series! PLUS we sat down to chat with Andy Weir and Daniel Suarez. We learn you shouldn’t go for a publisher, but go for an audience, and why you should NOT tell your friends your stories but make them read what you write instead.
WHAT ARE WE DRINKING
Tom: Smithwick’s
Veronica: Red wine. Possibly a Pinot Noir.
QUICK BURNS
Syfy Turns James S.A. Corey’s Expanse Into “Game Of Thrones In Space”
Locus awards ballot is up
Anthology will launch to public May 1!
INTERVIEW
Andy Weir
Daniel Suarez
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How did Brent Weeks get from Montana to writing novels on napkins to becoming the bestselling author of the Lightbringer Series? We’ll ask him about that, find out his favorite word and whether he still has those napkins.
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