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Welcome back to the Rocket Talk podcast! In this week’s podcast episode, Justin’s originally scheduled guests got bumped due his daughter breaking her arm. Thankfully, the day is saved by a last minute guest, Ken of the genre blog Neth Space. Justin conducts a short interview with Ken about his long standing blog and the state of the blogging world, before the pair jump into answering questions submitted via Twitter.

Ken is the blogger in residence at the well known genre blog, Neth Space. He lives in Arizona. You can follow him on Twitter.

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Featured image from Bantam’s cover to Robin Hobb’s Mad Ship. Art by Stephen Youll.

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Welcome back to the Rocket Talk podcast! In this week’s podcast episode, Justin is visited by regular guest, Sam Sykes and first time guest, Tiffany Reisz. The trio discuss sex scenes, including a live reading of one of Joe Abercrombie’s sexual liaisons in his novel, Best Served Cold. Their conversation moves on to discuss why sex scenes can be rejected in some types of fiction and embraced in others.

Note: This episode of Rocket Talk contains explicit language.

Sam Sykes is the author of the Bring Down Heaven series from Orbit Books. The first book, A City Stained Red, is out now, and its sequel, The Mortal Tally, will be available later this year. He owns a pug named Otis, lives in Arizona, and tweets a lot.

Tiffany Reisz is the author of the internationally bestselling and award-winning Original Sinners series for Mira Books (Harlequin/Mills & Boon). Tiffany’s books inhabit a sexy shadowy world where romance, erotica and literature meet and do immoral and possibly illegal things to each other. She describes her genre as “literary friction.” She lives in Portland, Oregon and also tweets a lot.

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Welcome back to the Rocket Talk podcast! In this week’s podcast episode, Justin is graced with the presence of the exceptional Diana Rowland and Kameron Hurley. The trio jump into a discussion about the intersectional challenges of the modern workplace, with an emphasis on how it impacts publishing.

Diana Rowland is the author of the Kara Gillian Series and White Trash Zombie Series. The former continued recently with Vengeance of the Demon. The latter continues later this year with White Trash Zombie Gone Wild. She has worked as a bartender, a blackjack dealer, a pit boss, a street cop, a detective, a computer forensics specialist, a crime scene investigator, and a morgue assistant. Find her on Twitter @dianarowland.

Kameron Hurley is the author of the critically acclaimed Bel Dame Apocrypha, which began with God’s War. Her newest series, The Worldbreaker Saga, started with Mirror Empire last year and continues with Empire Ascendant this fall. She is currently short listed for the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Debut Fantasy. Follow her on Twitter @kameronhurley.

Rocket Talk, Episode 59 (40:09)

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Welcome back to the Rocket Talk podcast! In this week’s podcast episode, Justin is joined by Robert Brockway, the author of the just released new novel The Unnoticeables. The discussion covers who Robert is personally, delving deep into the naming convention of his dogs, to how his novel is oddly enmeshed with Saved by the Bell.

Robert Brockway is a Senior Editor and columnist for Cracked.com. He is the author of The Unnoticeables (available now from Tor Books—read an excerpt here!), the cyberpunk novel Rx: A Tale of Electronegativity, and the comedic non-fiction essay collection Everything is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife Meagan and their two dogs, Detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh. He has been known, on occasion, to have a beard.

Rocket Talk, Episode 58 (36:05)

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Welcome back to the Rocket Talk podcast! In this week’s podcast episode, Justin invites military science fiction authors Linda Nagata and Marko Kloos to the show. The conversation talks about their shared, non-traditional roads to publication, military science fiction as a genre, and some of the mysteries of fiction writing.

Linda Nagata is a science fiction writer, living in Hawaii. After being traditionally published in the early 2000s, she took a hiatus from writing before returning in 2010 as an “indie” author. Her novel The Red: First Light was originally self published before being signed by Saga Press in a three book deal. She’s been nominated for the Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards. Visit her website or find her on Twitter. You can read a review of Nagata’s The Red: First Light on Tor.com.

Marko Kloos is the author of the military science fiction Frontlines series, which began with Terms of Enlistment, then Lines of Departure, and the most recently released Angles of Attack. Originally self published, the series was picked up by Amazon’s 47 North. Born and raised in Germany, he now resides in New Hampshire. Visit his website or find him on Twitter.

Rocket Talk, Episode 57 (47:30)

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This week’s episode is all about reader response. Justin is joined by podcaster Jonah Sutton-Morse and blogger Mieneke van der Salm to discuss The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.

Mieneke van der Salm in the blogger in residence at A Fantastical Librarian. By day she’s a university librarian in the Netherlands and a mother of two. In 2014 she was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in the Non-Professional category. You find her on Twitter @Pallekenl.

Jonah Sutton-Morse is a reader and the host of a new podcast titled Cabbages and Kings, which is a show all about readers talking about science fiction and fantasy books they’ve read. You can find him on Twitter @jsuttonmorse.

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Welcome back to the Rocket Talk Podcast! This week, Justin invites blogger and author Aidan Moher on to discuss his new self-published book, Tide of Shadows and Other Stories. The two discuss the state of self-publishing and why Moher chose that route. Afterward, they have a frank discussion about the state of blogging and a few books coming out later this year.

Aidan Moher is the 2014 Hugo Award winning blogger in residence at A Dribble of Ink. His first book, Tide of Shadows and Other Stories can be found on Amazon. Follow him on Twitter @adribbleofink.

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Welcome back to Rocket Talk! In this week’s podcast episode, Justin invites fellow blogger Amal El-Mohtar to talk about what makes Naomi Novik’s newest novel, Uprooted, so wonderful. Fair warning, mild spoilers ahead!

Namoi Novik’s Uprooted is available now in both the US (Del Rey) and UK (Tor Books UK) markets, and you can read an excerpt here on Tor.com.

Amal El-Mohtar is the Nebula-nominated author of The Honey Month, a collection of short fiction and poetry written to the taste of 28 different kinds of honey. Her work has appeared in magazines including Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, and Apex, and anthologies including The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, Glitter & Mayhem, and Kaleidoscope. She writes reviews for NPR, Lightspeed, and Tor.com, is a 3-time winner of the Rhysling award for Best Short Poem, a recipient of the Richard Jefferies poetry prize, and co-edits Goblin Fruit, an online quarterly dedicated to fantastical poetry, with Caitlyn A. Paxson. She divides her time between Ottawa and Glasgow; find her on Twitter @tithenai.

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In this week’s podcast episode, Justin talks with Renee Williams and Shaun Duke, editors of Speculative Fiction 2014. Available now from Book Smugglers Publishing, SpecFic ’14 is a survey of the years best online reviews, essays, and commentary. The conversation covers the contents of the anthology, the year’s themes, and the mechanics of identifying what makes a piece of non-fiction “the best.”

Renee is a blogger at Lady Business and Strange Horizons, a staff member at Archive of Our Own, and an unabashed fan of Bucky Barnes as portrayed by Sebastian Stan. She is also a dominant Tumblr at Subverting the Text and can be found on Twitter @renay.

Shaun is the host of the Hugo nominated Skiffy and Fanty Podcast and, a new podcast, Totally Pretentious. He’s also the blogger in residence at The World in the Satin Bag. He’s a graduate instructor, studying Caribbean literature and science fiction. He also likes Bucky, and can be found on Twitter @shaunduke.

Rocket Talk, Episode 53 (53:31)

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