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Conversations with the best and brightest creators of science fiction and fantasy literature today. If you love SF literature, are an author or aspire to become one, you'll enjoy this podcast.

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Cover to Cover #336A: Lawrence Watt-Evans

Show Notes: Lawrence Watt-Evans Brian Richardson from What the Cast? joins Mike and Mike today, and he’s preparing Mitt Zombie’s concession speech for the 2008 presidential campaign. They also discuss the passing of Michael Crichton, and his contributions to both television and fiction, and the curious happenstance of why certain novels with science fiction elements are not [...]...

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[ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:00:45 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #335B: Art Reflecting Life

Show Notes: Art Reflecting Life Discussion: Mike and Mike talk about the potential impact of the 2008 US Presidential Elections on the non-fiction and fiction landscape of the next few years, based on some of the literature shifts in decades past. Without going into personal political opinions, let’s speculate on how or if these results [...]...

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[ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:00:36 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #335A: Feedback Blowout!

Show Notes: Feedback Blowout! Voicemail: Tim Low relays some suggestions for YA books that aren’t “dumbed down”, and Darcy recommends The Secret Life of Bees, the Ember series, and a new series by R. A. Salvatore; Shane in Sydney lets us know that Aussie chain Angus & Robertson now has a POD machine located in the [...]...

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[ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:00:38 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #334B: Feedback from Everyone

Show Notes: Feedback from Everyone Voicemail: Trampas comments on the changes and expansions with Dungeons & Dragons and Forgotten Realms, changing the landscape in order to start anew in several places, and enacting time jumps in other places; James listens to us while walking the streets of exotic foreign cities, and wants to know if we’ve [...]...

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[ Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:30:24 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #334A: Charlie Huston

Show Notes: Charlie Huston Voicemail: Scooter Ross lets Mike and Mike know that the B.C. comic strip isn’t being reprinted, but have new strips being drawn by his grandson, which leads to a long conversation about books, profits, and publishing’s bottom lines. Submitting Listener comments: If you have any suggestions or comments, please let us know! [...]...

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[ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:30:13 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #333A: Tor.com

Show Notes: Tor.com Discussion: Mike and Mike field a request for opinion about Stephanie Meyer’s statement that she’s not going to publish her next novel in the Twilight series, Midnight Sun, because it’s already been leaked onto the Internet, and is considering giving up writing altogether because of this situation. She has decided to make the draft [...]...

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[ Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:30:30 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #332A: Edward M. Lerner

Show Notes: Edward M. Lerner Discussion: Mike and Mike chat it up while streaming the show into Second Life, covering some updates on Mike S’ ebook sales, including the increasing numbers to iPhone and iPod Touch users, plus the evolution of book reading gadgets (see the Plastic Logic website). Submitting Listener comments: If you have any suggestions [...]...

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[ Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:30:26 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #331B: The Growth of the Artist

Show Notes: The Growth of the Artist Mike M has rediscovered his lost stories, and is planning to jump back into them full bore, and is newly passionate about the importance of doing regular system backups. This leads into a conversation about how an artist or a writer will grow and change over the course [...]...

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[ Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:00:20 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #331A: Joe Abercrombie

Show Notes: Joe Abercrombie Discussion: Mike Stackpole picks several huge bones about Michael Palmer’s The First Patient. Huge bones about plotting, pacing, and more… spoilers are included, but in spite of the major problems Mike S has with this book, he recommends it as an example for writers to break down and see what not [...]...

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[ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:00:12 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #330A: Ask A Ninja

Show Notes: Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine from “Ask A Ninja” Discussion: Mike Stackpole tells us about a new Mac application he’s found, Delicious Library, available from Delicious Monster. It can catalog just about anything with a barcode: books, DVDs, action figures, and more. Mike S loves this app, and Summer tried it out and also [...]...

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[ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:30:47 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #329B: Listener Comments

Show Notes: Getting away from Being Connected Voicemail: Trampas (Dragonlance Canticle) comments on how continuity errors can make a book or series unreadable for him. Mike, Mike and Summer chat about the various reasons why that may happen, depending on who’s sandbox is being played in and by who’s rules they are bound to play by. Listener [...]...

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[ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:00:34 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #329A: Jennifer Rardin

Show Notes: Jennifer Rardin Voicemail: Brad from Nashville recounts an excerpt from a Stackpole novel, which leads to much amusement. Interview: This week, Mike and Summer talk with Jennifer Rardin about Bitten To Death, the fourth in her Jaz Parks series. She tells us about how the story and characters gelled, and how she wanted [...]...

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[ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:00:17 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #328B: Technology, Unplugged

Show Notes: Getting away from Being Connected Mike Stackpole talks about a family fishing trip, in a location that doesn’t even get cell reception. That in itself is fascinating… how do you find places to unplug? Be it for writing, drawing, painting, or whatever your passion, where do you go or what do you [...]...

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[ Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:30:14 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #328A: S. M. Stirling

Show Notes: S. M. Stirling Try GoToMyPc.com! free for 30 days! Interview: This week, Mike and Brian talk with S. M. Stirling, who made a quick stop in town on a book tour promoting The Scourge of God, the sequel to The Sunrise Lands, and latest in a 9-volume sequence. Discussion: Mike and Mike talk about some of [...]...

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[ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:00:51 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #327B: Playing with Tor.com

Show Notes: Fun stuff at the new Tor.com Discussion: So how many of you have been playing with the new Tor.com website? The new site, launched at the same time as San Diego Comicon, is now more of a social networking media site for books than it is an informational site for a book publisher. Try [...]...

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[ Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:30:23 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #327A: L. A. Banks

Show Notes: L. A. Banks Discussion: Many have complained that TV and movies are being too “dumbed down” for kids, but is the same thing happening in YA books? Try GoToMyPc.com! free for 30 days! Interview: This week, Mike, Mike, Lorrie and Summer talk with urban fantasy author L. A. Banks, creator of the Vampire Huntress Legend series. [...]...

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[ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:30:23 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #326B: Dragon*Con Report

Show Notes: Dragon*Con Report Discussion: Mike Stackpole delivers the promised Dragon*Con report. We hear about the Podcasting track, the Star Wars track, and the Skeptics track, and more. 4 full hotels, and more people and costumes than you can shake a light saber at! Check out Dragon*Con TV for a small taste of some of [...]...

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[ Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:00:04 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #326A: David Boop

Show Notes: David Boop Mike Stackpole is still recovering from Dragon*Con. Oh, the tales he has to tell! Try GoToMyPc.com! free for 30 days! Interview: This week, we talk with David Boop, author of She Murdered Me With Science, a scifi detective pulp noir tale, set in an alternate 1953, with a disgraced scientist working as a [...]...

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[ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:30:43 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #325A: F. Paul Wilson

Show Notes: F. Paul Wilson Discussion: Opposite ends of the tech spectrum: advanced technology in Mike S’ new phone scares him, and Mike M is still lugging around ancient technology with him. Both of them reminisce over ancient computing technologies and fond tech memories. Help us help Mike M let go of his old stuff. Interview: We [...]...

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[ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:00:37 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #324B: Books, For You

Show Notes: Books, For You The Library: The first Library segment in the new studio! Elric: To Rescue Tanelorn by Michael Moorcock; Pirate Sun by Karl Schroeder; Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait by K. A. Bedford; Acacia by David Anthony Durham (mmpb release); Vacation by Jeremy C. Shipp; Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher; Lachlei by M. [...]...

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[ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:00:29 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #324A: Feedback, From You

Show Notes: Feedback, From You Voicemail: Trampas would like to know if there’s a rule of thumb on when and how to use cussing in a story; Craig in PA would like to hear more about the SF/F series that are being adapted for television and film; Elena in Las Vegas comments on the use of [...]...

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[ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:30:24 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #323A: Franchises, Tie-Ins, and Zombies, oh my!

Show Notes: Franchies, Tie-Ins, and Zombies, oh my! Voicemail: Tim Low adds to Laurell K. Hamilton’s comments on sex; Lejon wonders if authors can trademark themselves in order to prevent publishers from continuing stories in their universes after they’ve shuffled off this mortal coil; Jordan wonders what the difference between authors writing in a franchise and [...]...

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[ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:00:50 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #322A: Charles Stross

Show Notes: Charles Stross Discussion: Keeping the e-book reader debate going! Jason on the road, commends Mike Stackpole on the iPhone app books, and thinks that a cross-platform media format for ebooks isn’t a bad thing, and it isn’t. Interview: Hugo Award nominee and winner Charles Stross is in studio to chat about his latest book, [...]...

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[ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:00:52 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #321B: Creating a Feeling

Show Notes: Creating a Feeling Discussion: Michael, Summer and Michael continue the chat with Tom Corwin and Craig Frazier about the creative process that went into creating Mr Fooster, Traveling on a Whim. From a comment from Tom, about “writing in a way to let the text breathe,” we launch into a discussion about finding a certain [...]...

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[ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:55:44 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #312B: Listener Comments

Show Notes: Voicemail Time! Voicemail: Indiana Jim on moving publishers and editors to places besides New York City; David from Manhasset on needing an economic way to test drive a Kindle, or having it do text to speech; a slippery slope on providing free and inexpensive materials driving the publishers out of business?; Indiana Jim on [...] ...

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[ Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:15:35 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #312A: Tim Lebbon

Show Notes: Tim Lebbon Discussion: Fantasy author Michelle M. Welch sends in a comment about authors also needing to get used to the idea of e-books, both from the product and marketing perspective, which leads to a chat about ideas for authors to do their own marketing and promotion, advances. Interview: Michael and Michael talk with Tim [...] ...

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[ Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:00:23 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #311A: Gail Z. Martin

Show Notes: Gail Z. Martin Voicemail: Trampas has a question regarding the use of technology in fiction, and whether or not it’s better to stick to know tech in the past, or put the setting in the current day and not worry about future real world advances making the story dated. Trampas tells us about his meeting [...]...

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[ Wed, 28 May 2008 01:00:29 +0000 ]

7th Son: Obsidian Posters

7th Son: Obsidian is Coming Go Collect the entire set of posters! ...

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[ Wed, 21 May 2008 03:00:20 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #310A: L. E. Modesitt, Jr

Show Notes: L. E. Modesitt, Jr. Discussion: Mark from Kentucky comments on DRM in PDF e-books, and different levels of DRM, which leads to a discussion between Mike and Mike about the uses behind the consumption of digital media vs. hardcopy media, and collectible vs. not collectible. Random comment: Trampas agrees with Schmoo’s approval of Piers Anthony’s [...]...

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[ Tue, 20 May 2008 01:00:37 +0000 ]

Cover to Cover #309A: Isamu Fukui

Show Notes: Isamu Fukui Listener Feedback: Jason has a question for Mike Stackpole about non-linear writing, as for games and choose-your-adventure stories, leading to an explanation on flowcharting paths and branches for those types of stories, and possibilities with newer technologies. Interview: Mike, Summer and Mike talk to 17-year-old Isamu Fukui about his first SF novel, Truancy. [...]...

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[ Tue, 13 May 2008 16:00:48 +0000 ]

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