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Exclusive Interview: The Caped Crusade Author Glen Weldon

While everyone knows the story of how Bruce Wayne became Batman, not everyone knows the real-life story of how the character has morphed over the years into the one we see today in movies, video games, and comic books. But in new book, The Caped Crusade: Batman And The Rise Of Nerd Culture (hardcover, digital), writer Glen Weldon doesn’t just explores the character’s durability and mutability, he also widens his scope to examine what Batman’s durability and mutability says about our modern culture.

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Exclusive Interview: The Ratten Expedition Author David A Hornung

In speculative fiction, one of the “What If?” questions that gets asked the most is “What if [War X] went on longer than it really did?” But in his novel The Ratten Expedition (hardcover, paperback, digital), writer David A Hornung doesn’t show us what The Civil War would be like if it lasted six years longer than it really did, but what life is like ten years after that longer war concluded.

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Exclusive Interview: Here’s To My Sweet Satan Author George Case

I’m not sure where I got it from, but sitting on a shelf in my office is an adorable plastic toy of the dark lord Cthulhu. It’s even called “My Little Cthulhu,” and comes with two screaming people who kind of look like those Playmobil figures. The point being that Satanism, the dark arts, and the occult have become so commonplace in our society, in our pop culture, that they’ve sometimes, well, adorable. And if you don’t believe me, there’s a reality show called The Osbournes you might want to check out.

So how did we get to this point? It’s something writer George Case explores the origins of in Here’s To My Sweet Satan: How The Occult Haunted Music, Movies, And Pop Culture 1966-1980 (hardcover, digital). Though in talking to Case about his book, it’s clear he doesn’t see the influence of Satanism, the dark arts, and the occult on our pop culture as being all that evil.

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Exclusive Interview: Halo New Blood Author Matt Forbeck

It’s easy to think that the age of physical media is coming to an end. And for some things, it clearly is. But it seems the death of paper books may have been greatly exaggerated. Case in point: Matt Forbeck’s Halo New Blood. Though it was originally released digitally last year, the sci-fi novel — about a character from the video games Halo 3: ODST and Halo 5: Guardians — is now being released in paperback…by popular demand.

For those who missed it when it was 1s and 0s instead of paper and ink, I spoke to Forbeck about what the book is about and how it connects to the aforementioned games.

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Exclusive Interview: “Star Trek: The Original Series: The Latter Fire” Author James Swallow

While the original mission of the Enterprise only made it through three of its planned five year schedule, it’s more than made up for it thanks to numerous Star Trek novels (and comics, and games…). The latest of which is James Swallow’s Star Trek The Original Series The Latter Fire (paperback, digital), which presents yet another adventure for Kirk, Spock, and their coworkers. Though in talking to Swallow about this book, it’s interesting to learn that Star Trek novels come with their own version of The Prime Directive.

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Exclusive Interview: Eagle In Exile Author Alan Smale

In speculative fiction, the author tries to figure out what would really happen if a historical event went differently. Y’know, like what the world of the 1200s would be like if the Roman Empire never fell. Such is the premise of Alan Smale’s Eagle In Exile (hardcover, digital), the sequel to his 2015 novel Clash Of Eagles, and the second part of a planned trilogy. In the following interview, Smale talks about the impetus for this series, where the new novel fits in, and why it’s not about what would happen if the Romans had a space program.

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Exclusive Interview: Bigfootloose And Finn Fancy Free Author Randy Henderson

While the number of serious fantasy novels for adults grows every day, the number that don’t take themselves so seriously is, well, okay, it’s also growing, just not as fast. Which is why we need more writers like Randy Henderson, the author of the funny fantasy novel Finn Fancy Necromancy and its newly released sequel, Bigfootloose And Finn Fancy Free (hardcover, digital). Though in talking to Henderson about the new book, it’s clear his intention wasn’t to just make you laugh, to amuse you, to be a clown, what do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

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New Game Of Thrones Funko POP! Toys Announced

Funko have announced that they’ll release a new series of Game Of Thrones POP! toys this February.

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Exclusive Interview: Underwater Author Marisa Reichardt

As an old adult, I usually think young adult novels are not for me. But I’m beginning to rethink that the position after talking to writer Marisa Reichardt about her debut novel Underwater (hardcover, digital). While she says the novel is YA because it has, “A teenage protagonist facing teenage protagonist issues while embracing the truth of teenage emotion,” she goes on to explain why the operative word in the phrase “young adult” may not be the first one.

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