Episode #64: Interview with SB Divya on her novel Machinehood

One of the best books I read this year is a new science fiction novel by debut novelist S.B. Diviya. This novel Machinehood is a smart and effective novel. The grandest of science fiction are the tales you can hold up like a mirror to the issues of today. Even more grand are novels that decades like still feel like they are that mirror. I suspect it will be in conversation during award season.  Diviya has spent 20 years as an electrical engineer in various fields including pattern recognition, machine intelligence, high-speed communications, digital music, and medical devices. Machinehood, is  published by Saga Press, and her short story collection, Contingency  Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations, is published by  Hachette India. Her Novella Runtime was nominated for the 2016 Nebula  Award for Best Novella. She is still a working engineer and the  Co-Editor for Escape Pod, along with Mur Lafferty.   In this conversation, we talk about her science fiction roots, her science training, and the writing of Machinehood. It is mostly spoiler-free but I do give a warning when I dive into the story stuff deeper.   https://sbdivya.com/  •You can find my books here:  Amazon-https://www.amazon.com/David-Agranoff/e/B004FGT4ZW    •And me here:  Goodreads-http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2988332.David_Agranoff   Twitter-https://twitter.com/DAgranoffAuthor   Blog-http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/