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SFF Addicts Ep. 134: Consequences in World Creation with Adrian Tchaikovsky (Mini-Masterclass)
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Consequences in World Creation with award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky. During the episode, Adrian confronts the many consequences of worldbuilding, including establishing a logical fictional “reality”, the depths and possibilities of world creation, being flexible with your world and its consequences, immersion and logical inconsistencies, mapping out consequences and knock-on effects, organizing story/world information, how characters test the limits of your world, fixing bad worldbuilding choices and more.
Ed’s Most Anticipated Reads of 2025 (SFF Edition)
The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee The Green Bone Saga by Fonda Lee is the high watermark of modern fantasy, as well as helping the “emotional damage” meme continue to thrive, and so any new series by her must be welcomed with appropriate parades and hysteria. But the fact that her next Orbit…
COVER REVEAL: Lady Drakeslayer (Passage Two of the Divine Godsqueen Coda) by Bill Adams
Reminder of the cover for Book 1 :). Grab your copy here! Ready or not! Title: Lady DrakeslayerSeries: Divine Godsqueen Coda, Book 2Author: Bill AdamsRelease date: February 5, 2025Cover artist: Felix Ortiz (https://felixortiz.artstation.com/)Title design: Dewey Conway (www.deweywconway.com)Link to PreorderLink to GoodreadsLink for ARC Blurb An orphan, having uncovered the truth of her past, shuns the destiny of the…
Excerpt: Blood of the Kami (Yaseki Monogatari #1) by Baptiste Pinson Wu
Title: Blood of the KamiSeries: Yaseki Monogatari, Book 1Author: Baptiste Pinson WuArtist: Christian BenavidesRelease Date: April 2nd, 2025Preorder Link: https://amzn.to/4fTn91O Blurb For centuries, the Yaseki have fought the corrupted souls who seek to plunge Japan into darkness. But the fragile balance is now shifting toward the forces of evil. Ren Fudō, a young Soul Hunter…
Review: Buzzard’s Bowl by John Pallandino
Synopsis Cedain continues to collapse. Ashmount’s destruction shatters the Magicai while the culprits responsible continue sabotaging the world. All the while, the next season of Buzzard’s Bowl begins and Edelbrock, in his constant fight for survival, desires a vengeance he can only find in the arena. Seradal and Villic find themselves in the middle of…
SFF Addicts Ep. 133: Adrian Tchaikovsky talks Alien Clay, Days of Shattered Faith, TTRPGs & More
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky about his new novels Days of Shattered Faith and Alien Clay, growing up on Doctor Who, how TTRPGs inspire him, ideation and the strangeness of nature, empathizing with aliens and non-human characters, creativity and limitations, authoritarianism and bureaucracy in The Tyrant Philosophers series, experimenting with multiple POVs and vignettes, colonialism, symbiosis and much more.