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Review: The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence #1) by Emma Mieko Candon

July 3, 2023 by Paige Leave a Comment

The cover for The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon

Emma Mieko Candon is clearly a very talented writer, she’s created this incredibly unique world filled with fascinating ideas and intricate characters. The idea of AI Gods who corrupted and ruined the cities they created and kept is what really hooked me. Add in humans who can communicate with these AI and control what I imagined as huge mechs, this is a great book for anyone who loves a complex tale with sci-fi elements.

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence, Mechs/Robots, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: AI, Emma Mieko Candon, Mechs, Sci Fi, The Archive Undying, Tordotcom

SFF Addicts Ep. 56: Worldbuilding 101 with Martha Wells (Mini-Masterclass)

June 6, 2023 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Worldbuilding 101 with bestselling author Martha Wells. During the episode, Martha unravels the intricacies of worldbuilding, including what it means, why well-crafted worlds are important for stories, first steps for worldbuilding, research vs. creativity, keeping track of details, how to convey information through description, avoiding infodumping, drawing maps, naming shit and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, All Systems Red, Interview, M.J. Kuhn, Martha Wells, Masterclass, Mini-Masterclass, Murderbot, Podcast, SFF Addicts, The Murderbot Diaries, Tor Books, Tordotcom, Tordotcompub

SFF Addicts Ep. 55: Martha Wells talks Witch King, The Murderbot Diaries, Hard Lessons & More

May 30, 2023 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with award-winning/bestselling author Martha Wells about her new novel Witch King, her acclaimed The Murderbot Diaries series, hard lessons from her decades-long publishing career, re-releasing old works (and confronting her younger self’s writing), writing both science fiction and fantasy, demons, The Untamed, Mr. Snuffleupagus and much more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, All Systems Red, Interview, M.J. Kuhn, Martha Wells, Murderbot, Podcast, SFF Addicts, The Murderbot Diaries, Tor Books, Tordotcom, Tordotcompub, Witch King

SFF Addicts Ep. 48: Morally Gray Characters with Fonda Lee (Mini-Masterclass)

April 11, 2023 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Morally Gray Characters with award-winning SFF author Fonda Lee. During the episode, Fonda shares her “problematic faves” and untangles the moral complexity that we often find in fictional stories, including what draws us to morally gray characters, what compels authors to write them, stories that lend themselves well to moral grayness, the fine line between morally gray and evil, incorporating moral frameworks into worldbuilding and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Masterclass, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Fonda Lee, Interview, Jade City, Jade Legacy, Jade War, M.J. Kuhn, Masterclass, Mini-Masterclass, Orbit Books, Podcast, SFF Addicts, The Green Bone Saga, Tordotcom, Tordotcompub, untethered sky

SFF Addicts Ep. 47: Fonda Lee talks Untethered Sky, Green Bones, Falcons & More

April 4, 2023 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with award-winning SFF author Fonda Lee about her new novella Untethered Sky, her series The Green Bone Saga, writing both sci-fi and fantasy, TV adaptations, the corporate vs. publishing worlds, falconry, manticores, worldbuilding and much more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Fonda Lee, Interview, Jade City, Jade Legacy, Jade War, M.J. Kuhn, Orbit Books, Podcast, SFF Addicts, The Green Bone Saga, Tordotcom, Tordotcompub, untethered sky

Book Review: Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

March 14, 2023 by Neil Williams Leave a Comment

Synopsis Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father’s painful silence and a single, overwhelming need to kill the monsters that took her family. Ester’s path leads her to the King’s Royal Mews, where the giant rocs of legend are flown to […]

Filed Under: Adventure Fantasy, Asian Inspired, Fantasy, Novella, Reviews Tagged With: Book Review, Fantasy, Fantasy Books, Fonda Lee, Green Bone Saga, Macmillan, Macmillan Publishing, Monster, Mythology, Tor, Tordotcom, untethered sky

Review: The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

February 17, 2023 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university — and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems. Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort […]

Filed Under: Murder Mystery, Mystery, Reviews, Science Fiction, Soft SciFi Tagged With: Science Fiction, Tordotcom

Review: Wild Massive by Scotto Moore

February 7, 2023 by Scott 1 Comment

Summary: Scotto Moore’s Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty. When the Architects of the Multiverse were in their infancy and the cosmos was but a seed in the minds of gods, they called together their Artists […]

Filed Under: Reviews, Science Fiction, Space Opera Tagged With: Book Review, Science Fiction, Tordotcom

Author Chat: Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight (Editors of Africa Risen)

November 17, 2022 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join host Adrian M. Gibson and award-winning editors/authors Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Ekpeki and Zelda Knight for a chat about their new anthology Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, as well as the evolution and meaning of the anthology’s title, the story selection process, offering a platform for new African and diaspora authors, storytelling traditions, community building and much more.

Filed Under: Author Chat, Blog Posts, Interview Tagged With: Africa Risen, Author Chat, Interview, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Sheree Renée Thomas, Tordotcom, Tordotcompub, Zelda Knight

Review: Drunk On All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson

July 15, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis Eddie Robson’s Drunk on All Your Strange New Words is a locked room mystery in a near future world of politics and alien diplomacy. Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet. […]

Filed Under: Aliens, Dystopian, Mystery, Reviews, Science Fiction, Soft SciFi, Thriller Tagged With: Science Fiction, Tordotcom

Author Chat: Becky Chambers

July 5, 2022 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join FanFiAddict’s Adrian M. Gibson and award-winning author Becky Chambers for a chat about fictional comfort foods, her journey writing the Wayfarers series, transitioning to the Monk & Robot novellas, tea, video games, hopeful science fiction and much more.

Filed Under: Author Chat, Book Tube, Interview Tagged With: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Author Chat, Becky Chambers, Interview, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, The Wayfarers Series, Tordotcom, Tordotcompub

Review: The Future Library by Peng Shepherd

June 11, 2022 by Frasier Armitage Leave a Comment

Synopsis More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees — one that changes not only her life, but also the fate of our world. The novelette is inspired by the real-life “Future Library,” a long-term environmental and literary public […]

Filed Under: Dystopian, Fiction, Reviews, Science Fantasy, Science Fiction Tagged With: Fantasy, Tordotcom

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