Kayti Burt is back with an interview with the authors of Once and Future, Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta, who have brought a unique perspective to Arthurian legend. Once and Future introduces readers to a teenage girl who must wield Excalibur to fi...

Kayti Burt is back with an interview with the authors of Once and Future, Cori McCarthy and Amy Rose Capetta, who have brought a unique perspective to Arthurian legend. Once and Future introduces readers to a teenage girl who must wield Excalibur to fight an evil corporation while herself being a fugitive. The book debuts on March 26, 2019.

7: Cori McCarthy & Amy Rose Capetta Interview - Once and Future

We love our superhero stories, and it's been pretty cool to see the genre make its way from comic books and film/TV to the book world. We've been obsessed with the Renegades series by Marissa Meyer, who you may recognize from her Lunar Chroni...

We love our superhero stories, and it's been pretty cool to see the genre make its way from comic books and film/TV to the book world. We've been obsessed with the Renegades series by Marissa Meyer, who you may recognize from her Lunar Chronicles series, which reimagines classic fairy tales into speculative fiction settings. Renegades is set in a world that is ruled by superpowered individuals called, um, Renegades. The Renegades took control after a period of disorder during which the Anarchists, this world's "supervillains," had power.

6: Marissa Meyer Interview - The Renegades Series

In The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, Theodora Goss takes the most famous of 19th-century monster tales and turns them on their heads, making the female monsters of the narratives (or the female monsters from the spaces between the...

In The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, Theodora Goss takes the most famous of 19th-century monster tales and turns them on their heads, making the female monsters of the narratives (or the female monsters from the spaces between the canon) into the protagonists of their own story.

5: Theodora Goss Interview - The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club

Imagine an Earth on which a meteoroite hit in 1952, not only decimating Washington D.C. and much of the Eastern seaboard, but setting the planet on a course for human extinction. This is the alternate history laid out in Mary Robinette Kowal's Lad...

Imagine an Earth on which a meteoroite hit in 1952, not only decimating Washington D.C. and much of the Eastern seaboard, but setting the planet on a course for human extinction. This is the alternate history laid out in Mary Robinette Kowal's Lady Astronaut series, which sees humanity working to get to space and colonize Mars much faster than in our timeline.

4: Mary Robinette Kowal Interview - The Lady Astronaut Series

Britta Lundin's young adult novel debut&nbsp;Ship It is the story of Claire, a teenager who writes gay fanfiction about her favorite show, Demon Heart. When Claire attends a fan convention, she meets Forest, one of the two stars of Demon Heart...

Britta Lundin's young adult novel debut&nbsp;Ship It is the story of Claire, a teenager who writes gay fanfiction about her favorite show, Demon Heart. When Claire attends a fan convention, she meets Forest, one of the two stars of Demon Heart and our other Ship It narrator. Lundin's status as a writer on the CW's popular Riverdale series puts her in a unique position as an author of such a story.

3: Britta Lundin Interview - Ship It

Dr. Nnedi Okorafor is one cool creator. In addition to her original&nbsp;speculative fiction work like&nbsp;Binti, Akata Witch, Lagoon, and Who Fears Death, Okorafor is working within some of western culture's&nbsp;most popular canons:...

Dr. Nnedi Okorafor is one cool creator. In addition to her original&nbsp;speculative fiction work like&nbsp;Binti, Akata Witch, Lagoon, and Who Fears Death, Okorafor is working within some of western culture's&nbsp;most popular canons:&nbsp;Star Wars and Black Panther. Den of Geek Books Editor Kayti Burt spoke to her about Binti in particular but also about her body of work.

2: Nnedi Okorafor Interview - Binti

Annalee Newitz's science fiction debut Autonomous is a gutting tale of love, identity, and artificial intelligence in a future where anything, or anyone, can be owned. Podcast host, Kayti Burt, spoke with Newitz at New York Comic Con 2017. (origin...

Annalee Newitz's science fiction debut Autonomous is a gutting tale of love, identity, and artificial intelligence in a future where anything, or anyone, can be owned. Podcast host, Kayti Burt, spoke with Newitz at New York Comic Con 2017. (originally published December 5, 2017)

1: Annalee Newitz Interview - Autonomous

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