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A Song for a New Day: Sarah Pinsker Connects with Her Audience on Stage and Page
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT2189420364.mp3 Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day explores how society changes following two plausible disasters: a surge in terrorism and a deadly epidemic. In the Before, people brush against each other in crowded cities, gather in stadiums to watch baseball...
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A Civil War Could Be Just Around the Corner: An Interview with Craig DiLouie about Our War
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT9145026606.mp3 In science fiction, “near future” usually refers to settings that are a few years to a few decades off. But Craig DiLouie’s Our War—about a second U.S. civil war that starts after the president is impeached and convicted but refuses to step…
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Ready or Not, NASA Confronts the Threat of an Alien Invasion in David Wellington’s The Last Astronaut
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LIT6904544093.mp3 In The Last Astronaut, David Wellington turns his prolific imagination—which is more often associated with earthbound monsters like zombies, vampires, and werewolves—to the threat of an alien invasion. Set in 2055, the novel introduces a NASA ill...
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The Feed is Hungry in Eliot Peper’s Bandwidth and Borderless
https://files.newbooksnetwork.com/scifi/075scifipeper.mp3 It seems clear that our dependence on the internet will only grow in coming years, offering untold convenience. But how much control will we have to surrender to maintain access to this digital wonderland? That’s one of the key questions...
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Sam J. Miller’s Blackfish City Offers a Tale of Family and Revenge on Arctic Waters
https://files.newbooksnetwork.com/scifi/067scifimiller.mp3 Sam J. Miller loves cities. He lives in one, has a day job dedicated to making urban life more humane and fair, and has set his new novel, Blackfish City, in a teeming metropolis full of people who are grateful to be there. The fictional...
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P.J. Manney Explores Humanity 2.0 in (ID)entity
https://files.newbooksnetwork.com/scifi/051scifimanney.mp3 Artificial intelligence has long been a favorite feature of science fiction. Every robot or talking computer or starship operating system has contributed to our idealized image of the bits-and-bytes brain. In (ID)entity (47North, 2017)…
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The Eternal Optimist: An Interview with Philip K. Dick Award Winner Ramez Naam
https://files.newbooksnetwork.com/scifi/044scifinaam.mp3 My new podcast for New Books in Science Fiction is an interview with Ramez Naam. Here’s my write-up that goes with the interview: In the fictional battles between humans and machines, the divide between good and bad is usually clear.…
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Pirates! In Space! James L. Cambias embraces the near future in his second novel Corsair
https://files.newbooksnetwork.com/scifi/034scificambias.mp3 For his second novel, James L. Cambias chose one of the most challenging settings for a science fiction writer: the near future. Unlike speculative fiction that leaps centuries or millennia ahead or takes place on other planets, a book...
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