The Oddcast Welcomes the Wonderful Sam J. Miller

On this Oddcast, Nebula- and Campbell-award-winning author Sam J. Miller, whose extraordinary novels— The Blade Between, Blackfish City, and The Art of Starving—have been called “must reads” and “bests of the year” by USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and NPR. He talks with us about gentrification horror, social activism, whaling, floating cities, and more.
Sam J. MIller

Gavin Grant Entertains & Informs the Oddcast

This week a terrific interview with award-winning publisher/editor/and now bookstore owner (Book Moon) Gavin J. Grant. His publishing house, Small Beer Press, started in 2000 with a story collection, Stranger Things Happen, which Salon named a “Book of the Year,” and The Village Voice proclaimed as one of its 25 Best Books. He offers sage advice on navigating the mad world of publishing in the 21st century, and speaks to the return of the brick-and-mortar bookstore.

Gavin Grant, photographed by Adrianne Mathiowetz.

Across the Universe

Publishers Weekly and Library Journal weigh in delightedly on the Beatles-themed anthology, Across the Universe, edited by Michael A. Ventrella and Randee Dawn (Fantastic Books), with a December release. The book includes stories by Allen M. Steele, David Gerrold, Nancy Holder, Charles Barouch, Pat Cadigan, Christian H. Smith and yours truly. Yeah, yeah, yeah!

Across the Universe cover art