Join host Adrian M. Gibson and award winning author Fonda Lee for a chat about The Godfather, Dune and Hong Kong action films, her early career, what she's learned from publishing books, martial arts, building a fictional world from scratch, writing compelling and complex characters, the release of Jade Legacy, saying goodbye to The Green Bone Saga series and much more.

About the Author:

Fonda Lee is the award winning author of The Green Bone Saga series, including Jade City, Jade War and Jade Legacy, as well as the Exo series and Zeroboxer. She has won the World Fantasy Award and Aurora Award (Canada’s national science fiction and fantasy award), and has also been a finalist for the Nebula Award, Locus Award, and Oregon Book Award.

Find Fonda on Instagram, Twitter, Amazon and Audible, as well as her personal website.

You can also check out Adrian's FanFiAddict book review of Jade Legacy for a more in-depth critique of the novel.

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Join host Adrian M. Gibson and authors Dan Stout, Patricia A. Jackson and Dale Lucas for as they explore detectives and noir in science fiction and fantasy. During the panel, they discuss noir, detectives, police procedurals and blending genres, what those genres can offer in terms of setting, characters and narrative, incorporating noir into fictional worlds, using real world influences to enhance stories, noir tropes and much, much more.

About the Authors/Guests:

Dan Stout is the author of The Carter Archives fantasy noir series.

Find Dan on Instagram, Twitter, Amazon as well as his personal website.

Patricia A. Jackson is the author of Forging A Nightmare.

Find Patricia on Instagram, Twitter, Amazon as well as her personal website.

Dale Lucas is the author of The Fifth Ward and Doc Voodoo series.

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Join host Adrian M. Gibson and award winning author Jeff Noon for a chat about theater, the Manchester punk and rave scene, surrealism and genre-bending, psychedelics and drugs, cyberpunk, The Nyquist Mysteries series and much more. 

About the Author: 

Jeff Noon is the award winning author of The Nyquist Mysteries series, including A Man of Shadows, The Body Library, Creeping Jenny and Within Without, the Vurt series and more. He was trained in the visual arts, and was musically active on the punk scene before starting to write plays for the theatre. His first novel, Vurt, was published in 1993 and went on to win the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He has written many books since then, each one exploring the ever-changing borderzone between genre fiction and the avant-garde. 

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Join host Adrian M. Gibson and fantasy author Andrea Stewart for a chat about her wild, long journey to get published, the origins of The Bone Shard Daughter, her new novel The Bone Shard Emperor, writing sequels and planning a trilogy, worldbuilding, morally grey characters, family expectations, painting and much more. 

About the Author: 

Andrea Stewart is the author of The Drowning Empire series, including The Bone Shard Daughter and The Bone Shard Emperor. Her parents always emphasized science and education, so she spent her childhood immersed in Star Trek and odd-smelling library books. When her (admittedly ambitious) dreams of becoming a dragon slayer didn't pan out, she instead turned to writing books. In addition to writing, she can be found herding cats, looking at birds, and falling down research rabbit holes. 

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SFF Addicts' first TV Club bonus episode is here!

Join host Adrian M. Gibson and guests Sara Carothers and Lilly Ellison, fellow podcasters and hosts of the Fiction Fans podcast, as they discuss and review season one of Y: The Last Man, the new TV adaptation of the comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. During the panel they delve into initial impressions, character portrayals and arcs, the BIG apocalyptic event, political and cultural themes, the show's unfortunate cancellation and much more.

About the Guests:

Sara Carothers is co-host of the Fiction Fans podcast, and she has two pugs and also secretly a cat.

Find Sara on Twitter, as well as the Fiction Fans podcast.

Lilly Ellison is a writer and co-host of the Fiction Fans podcast, and she has two cats and secretly zero pugs.

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Join host Adrian M. Gibson and FanFiAddict’s Tori Gross, Tom Harnett and Eleni Argyró for another FanFiAddict family panel. This time, we take a trip down nostalgia lane and explore the science fiction, fantasy and horror that we read as kids. During the panel, we discuss early SFF origins and exposure, how SFF helped us personally growing up, potential stigma or shame surrounding reading and nerd culture, looking back on childhood favorites as adults and much more.

About the Panelists:

Tori Gross is an author, poet, and reviewer. She predominantly reads YA SFF, but is more than willing to peruse all genres if they pique her interest.

Find Tori on Instagram or Twitter, and check out her work on FanFiAddict here.

Tom Harnett is FanFiAddict's resident beard, a book reviewer and a former chef turned foodie.

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Eleni Argyró is a book reviewer for FanFiAddict and loves all things literature related. She also spends hours contorting her spine in the worst positions possible to read, write, or just binge watch movies and series.

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SFF Addicts first Film Club bonus episode is here! (Adrian promised more bonus content in Episode 1, and he's finally able to make good on that promise with this two-hour beast of a panel.)

Join host Adrian M. Gibson and authors Matt Kressel, Patricia A. Jackson, Cody Sisco, Tiffany Trent and Liam Quane as they discuss and review Dune: Part One, the new film adaptation of the famous Frank Herbert novel. During the panel they delve into first reactions, characters and actor portrayals, ecology and environment on Arrakis, music, costumes, cinematography and much more.

About the Authors:

Matt Kressel is the author of the Worldmender Trilogy and more.

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Patricia A. Jackson is the author of Forging A Nightmare.

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Cody Sisco is the author of the Resonant Earth series, including Broken Mirror Tortured Echoes.

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Tiffany Trent is the author of The Unnaturalists duology and the Hallowmere series.

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Liam Quane is a filmmaker and the author of Road to Juneau.

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Join host Adrian M. Gibson and author Josiah Bancroft for a chat about the release of his latest novel The Fall of Babel, writing (and finishing) a four-book series, the origins of The Books of Babel, pivoting careers, self-publishing vs. traditional publishing, SPFBO, writing believable characters, approaches to humor and satire and much more. (Also, jokes aplenty.) 

About the Author:

Josiah Bancroft is the author of The Books of Babel tetralogy, including Senlin Ascends, Arm of the Sphinx, The Hod King and The Fall of Babel. Before settling down to write fantasy novels, Josiah was a poet, college instructor, rock musician, and aspiring comic book artist. When he’s not writing, he enjoys recording the Crit Faced podcast with his friends, drawing the world of the Tower, and cooking dinner without a recipe. 

Find Josiah on Twitter, Amazon, Audible as well as his personal website. 

You can also check out Adrian's FanFiAddict book review of The Fall of Babel for a more in-depth critique of the novel. 

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Join host Adrian M. Gibson and FanFiAddict's Tom Harnett as they chat with fantasy authors Andrea Stewart, Krystle Matar and Angela Boord about food in fantasy. During the panel they dish on food, family and culture, incorporating food into fictional worldbuilding, food tropes and pet peeves in fantasy and much more.

About the Authors/Guests:

Andrea Stewart is the author of the Drowning Empire series, including The Bone Shard Daughter and The Bone Shard Emperor.

Find Andrea on Instagram, Twitter, Amazon and her personal website.

Krystle Matar is the self-published author of Legend of the Brightwash.

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Angela Boord is the self-published author of Fortune's Fool and more.

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Tom Harnett is FanFiAddict's resident beard, a book reviewer and a former chef turned foodie.

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Join host Adrian M. Gibson and author Alison Stine for a chat about her journey as a writer, the origins of her novels Road Out of Winter and Trashlands, how climate change plays into her fiction, parenting, characters and community, trash, tattooing and much more.

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About the Author:

Alison Stine is the Philip K. Dick award winning author of Road Out of Winter and Trashlands, as well as three poetry collections and a novella. She was raised in rural Ohio, a setting that has come up frequently in her fiction. Partially deaf, she works as a freelance reporter with The New York Times, and also writes for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, 100 Days in Appalachia, and more. She now lives in Colorado.

Find Alison on Instagram, Twitter, Amazon, Audible as well as her personal website.

You can also check out Adrian's FanFiAddict book reviews of Road Out of Winter and Trashlands for more in-depth critiques of Alison's novels.

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