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Exclusive Interview: “Kundo Wakes Up” Author Saad Z. Hossain

 

Usually when we think of djinn, we think of fantasy tales. And usually when we think of AI overlords, we think of cyberpunk sci-fi. But one day, not so long from now, when we think of stories involving djinn and AI, we’ll think of Saad Z. Hossain, author of the cyberpunk sci-fi / cli-fi / urban fantasy novella Kundo Wakes Up (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Hossain talks about this genre-mashing story, the novella that narratively preceded it, The Gurkha And The Lord Of Tuesday, and the new novel that narratively precedes both of them, Cyber Mage.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Ice Lion” Author Kathleen O’Neal Gear

 

As bad as the COVID outbreak has been, it has had one positive side effect: the environment has gotten better thanks to people driving a lot less. But that doesn’t mean the climate crisis is over… In her new cli-fi novel The Ice Lion (paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Kathleen O’Neal Gear explores life in a far future in which the environment has been irrevocably changed by global warming.

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Exclusive Interview: Bridge 108 Author Anne Charnock

 

Second books in a series often fall into one of two chronological places: a sequel or a prequel. But in the following email interview about her new socially- and environmentally-relevant dystopian sci-fi novel Bridge 108 (hardcover, Kindle), writer Anne Charnock explains that it’s chronological relationship to her connected 2013 novel A Calculated Life is actually parallel.