Deadspin superstar Drew Magary joins Justin to talk about his new novel, The Hike. Jumping into the conversation is Drew Magary superfan, Jared Shurin of Pornokitsch. The trio discuss the intersection of sports and literature, the television show Chopped, Donald Trump, and a smattering of other things.

Drew Magary is a correspondent for GQ and a columnist for Deadspin. He is the author of the memoir Someone Could Get Hurt and the novels The Postmortal and The Hike—available now from Viking, you can read a review here. His writing has appeared in Maxim, New York magazine, The Atlantic, Bon Appétit, The Huffington Post, the Awl, Gawker, Penthouse, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and on Comedy Central, NPR, NBC, ESPN, and more. Find him on Twitter @drewmagary.

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Justin invites podcasting guru Alasdair Stuart, of PseudoPod fame to the show. They talk about fiction podcasting, surviving as an upcoming writer, the importance of networking, and other fun stuff.

Alasdair Stuart is co-owner of the Escape Artists fiction content network, which includes PseudoPod, PodCastle, EscapePod, and Mothership Zeta. He’s also a freelance journalist and broadcaster and host of the Parsec award winning podcast, Pseudopod. His work has appeared in the Guardian, How It Works, the Fortean Times, Sci Fi Now, Neo, and here on Tor.com! You can follow him on Twitter @AlasdairStuart.

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Alexandra Petri is a Washington Post columnist and blogger, an International Pun Champion, a playwright, and a Jeopardy! loser, and she’s been on your TV a couple of times. She is also a congressman’s kid, if that interests you. When she remembers, she does stand-up comedy too. You can follow her on Twitter @petridishes, or keep up with her alter ego @KyloR3n.

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Season 1 is available now on Netflix!

Lauren Montgomery is a director, storyboard artist, and producer. She directed the Wonder Woman animated film, did storyboards for Book 3 of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and was a supervising producer and storyboard artist for The Legend of Korra, She is now an executive producer and co-showrunner on Netflix’s Voltron Legendary Defender.

Joaquim dos Santos has directed episodes of Justice League Unlimited, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and The Legend of Korra. He also directed the mini-series G.I. Joe: Resolute and two short films for DC: The Spectre and Jonah Hex. He is now an executive producer and co-showrunner on the animated series Voltron  Legendary Defender.

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This week’s show features Rocket Talk regular, Amal El-Mohtar. She joins Justin Landon to talk about Hamilton, the musical cultural sensation. The pair discuss what makes the musical so great, how it’s impacting the discussion, and whether or not it qualifies as “genre”.

Amal El-Mohtar is a Canadian author and blogger. She’s won several awards for her poetry and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 2011 for her short story “The Green Book”, won the 2015 Locus Award for “The Truth About Owls”, and was nominated again for the Nebula in 2016 for “Madeleine.” Her non-fiction work can be found at Tor.com, NPR, and Lightspeed Magazine.

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This episode brings fantasy writing standout Myke Cole back to the show and welcomes BuzzFeed Books Editor, Isaac Fitzgerald for the first time. Isaac gives us the straight dope on BuzzFeed’s mission and breaks down their approach to content. Myke and Isaac then start a conversation about the intersection of genre fiction and general fiction in the modern cultural environment. Finally, Myke convinces you to buy his book.

As a security contractor, government civilian, and military officer, Myke Cole’s career has run the gamut from counterterrorism to cyber warfare to federal law enforcement. He’s done three tours in Iraq and was recalled to serve during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. His first series, the Shadow Ops Trilogy, is complete. Gemini Cell and Javelin Rain are the start of a new series set in the same universe—you can read an excerpt from Javelin Rain here on Tor.com.

Isaac Fitzgerald is the editor at BuzzFeed Books and co-founder of Pen & Ink. He uses Twitter.

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This episode brings ESPN baseball writer Keith Law to the show. Keith is a dedicated fiction reader, who is slowly working his way through all of the Hugo Award-winning novels. The pair discuss his work in baseball, his general love of fiction, what science fiction is all about, and other things here and there.

Keith Law is a senior baseball writer with ESPN and ESPN, Scouts Inc. He was previously a writer at Baseball Prospectus and a front office executive with the Toronto Blue Jays. He reviews board games for Paste Magazine and maintains a personal blog where he discusses food, books, and games.

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Charlie Jane Anders visits the show this week, talking about her new novel All the Birds in the Sky. The conversation covers her ideas about the intersection of literary and genre fiction, her fascination with time, and whether or not she’ll listen to Hamilton before seeing it live. The two also discuss Anders’ long running Writers With Drinks series in San Francisco, among other things.

Charlie Jane Anders is an author and blogger, with hundreds of bylines. Her non-fiction has appeared in Salon, The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Mother Jones, the San Francisco Chronicle, and io9, where she works as Editor in Chief. Her newest novel, All the Birds in the Sky, is available from Tor Books—you can read the first four chapters, starting here with chapter one. Her 2011 novelette “Six Months, Three Days” won the 2012 Hugo and was nominated for the Nebula and Theodore Sturgeon Awards.

Rocket Talk Episode 74 (37:36)

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This week, Justin is joined by V.E. Schwab and Miriam Weinberg, the author and editor team behind  A Darker Shade of Magic and its forthcoming sequel A Gathering of Shadows. They talk about their editorial relationship, Schwab’s path to publication, and the thoughts that went into creating the sensation that the series has become.

V.E. Schwab is the author of YA novels The Near Witch, The Archived, and The Unbound. Schwab’s first adult novel, Vicious, debuted to critical praise and reader accolades. Her latest series, beginning with A Darker Shade of Magic, takes us on a journey through parallel Londons—its sequel, A Gathering of Shadows, publishes February 23rd in the US from Tor Books and in the UK from Titan. You can read an excerpt here on Tor.com.

Miriam Weinberg is an editor at Tor Books. She has worked with several editors, including Hugo-award winning editors Liz Gorinsky and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and is now busily working to build her own list.

Rocket Talk Episode 73 (53:30)

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This week, Robert Jackson Bennett invites Justin to his favorite restaurant. They share a sumptuous meal together, with wine and fine conversation. Their waiter, Giuseppe, comes by the table from time to time. The conversation itself covers Robert’s intentions with his new novel, City of Blades, his use of third person present, and Donald Trump.

Note: This episode is totally weird. The music is from Bensound, available here.

Robert Jackson Bennett is the author of American Elsewhere, The Troupe, The Company Man, and Mr. Shivers. His books have been awarded the Edgar Award, the Shirley Jackson, and the Philip K. Dick Citation of Excellence. His latest series, starting with City of Stairs and continuing with City of Blades, is an atmospheric and intrigue-filled with dead gods, buried histories, and a one-armed lady generals.

Rocket Talk Episode 72 (33:10)

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Mur Lafferty pays Rocket Talk a visit this week to talk about her new magazine, Mothership Zeta. The pair discuss the editorial direction of the magazine, Lafferty’s forthcoming new novel Six Wakes, and what it’s like to be an editor in the field today.

Note: This episode was recorded before episode 70 and thus lacks our new “review” segment.

Mur Lafferty is the author of several novels including The Shambling Guide to New York City and Ghost Train to New Orleans. She was the editor of Escape Pod until 2012. Her own podcast, I Should Be Writing, has won awards and led to her induction into the Podcasting Hall of Fame, and she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2013.

Rocket Talk Episode 71 (40:41)

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The podcast took some time off off to recharge the batteries, but we’re back and ready to go. This week, Justin is joined by Angry Robot author Megan O’Keefe, whose debut novel Steal the Sky was published earlier this month. The conversation covers her path to publication, Reddit, and soap making, among other things.

Additionally, we’re starting a new segment on Rocket Talk in which Justin reviews a book or short story at the end of every episode. This week’s title is Stina Leicht’s Cold Iron.

Note: This week’s episode has some audio issues during the interview portion.

Megan O’Keefe is the author of Steal the Sky. In 2014, she won Writers of the Future for her short story, “Another Range of Mountains.” She lives in the California Bay Area and makes soap for a living—you can find her soap and other fragrant products at Blushie.

Today’s review covers Stina Leicht’s debut novel Cold Iron—a flintlock epic fantasy available from Saga Press.

Rocket Talk Episode 70 (39:17)

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This week’s episode features fantasy and science fiction authors Kate Elliott and Emma Newman. Having read both of their most recent novels, Justin asks them about what it’s like to write aged characters and what kinds of resistance exists in society to hearing those stories. They also discuss the rarity of anxiety disorders in fiction.

Kate Elliott is the author of twenty five novels including the recently released Court of Fives, Black Wolves, and The Very Best of Kate Elliott. Visit her website or find her on Twitter. She lives in Hawaii.

Emma Newman is the author of four novels, including the Split Worlds series from Angry Robot Books. Her newest novel, Planetfall, came out November 3 from Ace Roc. She is also a professional audio book narrator and co-writes and hosts the Hugo-nominated podcast Tea & Jeopardy, which involves tea, cake, mild peril and singing chickens.

Rocket Talk Episode 69 (49:13)

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This week’s episode features Patrick S. Tomlinson, the author of The Ark from Angry Robot Books. The pair discuss the current status of Milwaukee as a cultural hot bed, the dearth of humor in science fiction and fantasy, and what Tomlinson was trying to accomplish in his new novel. Warning: mild sports talk.

Patrick S. Tomlinson is a stand-up comedian and author. His debut novel, The Ark, is a locked room murder mystery where the locked room is a generation starship. He’s published by Angry Robot Books and represented by Russ Galen. He lives in Milwaukee with his muscle car.

Rocket Talk Episode 68 (34:24)

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Justin is visited by authors Matt Wallace and Kameron Hurley. The trio discuss the current status of Southern California, professional wrestling, reality television, and Playboy‘s decision to nix nudity. They even manage to make it all relevant to genre publishing and their recent releases, Envy of Angels and Empire Ascendant, respectively.

Matt Wallace is a novelist and screenwriter. He used to be a professional wrestler and combat instructor. His debut novel, The Next Fix, came out in 2008. Since then he’s written other novels and novellas, his most recent of which is Envy of Angels from Tor.com Publishing. He co-hosts the Ditch Diggers Podcast.

Kameron Hurley is the author of The Mirror Empire and Empire Ascendant, the first two novels in the Worldbreaker Saga from Angry Robot Books. He previous novels God’s War, Infidel, and Rapture, earned her the Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer and the Kitschy Award for Best Debut Novel. She is the winner of two Hugo Awards, and has been a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award and the BSFA Award for Best Novel.

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Sam Sykes loves what he calls “formative fiction”. Join Justin and Sam as they discuss what formative fiction means to them, and why it played an important role in their reading life. Be warned: Dragonlance, Drizzt, and giggling abound.

Sam Sykes is the author of the Bring Down Heaven series, which began with The City Stained Red and continues in January with The Mortal Tally—both published by Orbit. His previous series, The Aeon Gates Trilogy, is complete. You can find Sam on Twitter, which you should consider both a recommendation and a warning.

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Recently released from Tor, Seth Dickinson’s The Traitor Baru Cormorant has spawned a multitude of reactions across the genre community. Amal El-Mohtar and Kameron Hurley join Justin on Rocket Talk to discuss how this response reflects a larger conversation: how has social media and online book discussion impacted how we engage one another in dialogue about the things we love? It’s an honest and riveting conversation that doesn’t shy from controversial subjects.

Amal El-Mohtar is a Canadian author and blogger. She’s won several awards for her poetry and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 2011 for her short story “The Green Book” and won the 2015 Locus Award for “The Truth About Owls.” Her non-fiction work can be found at Tor.com, NPR, and Lightspeed Magazine.

Kameron Hurley is the author of Mirror Empire and Mirror Ascendant, the first two novels in the Worldbreaker Saga from Angry Robot Books. He previous novels God’s War, Infidel, and Rapture, earned her the Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer and the Kitschy Award for Best Debut Novel. She is the winner of two Hugo Awards, and has been a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award and the BSFA Award for Best Novel.

The Traitor Baru Cormorant is Seth Dickinson’s highly anticipated debut novel—a brutal tale of empire, rebellion, fealty, and high finance, available from Tor Books and Tor UK (released as The Traitor). You can read an excerpt from the novel here on Tor.com.

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Fran Wilde, author of Updraft, joins the show this week. Of course, Justin asks her about feast scenes. They also talk about Nature magazine, her editorial process, and debut novel. There’s even a borderline engineering talk, in which Wilde confirms intellectual superiority over the host.

Fran Wilde is an author and technology consultant. Her first novel, Updraft, was released by Tor on September 1—read an excerpt here! Her short stories have appeared in publications including Asimov’s, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nature, and Tor.com. Her interview series Cooking the Books—about the intersection between food and fiction—has appeared at Strange Horizons and on her blog. You can find her on Twitter @fran_wilde and Facebook @franwildewrites.

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This week’s episode brings Bradley P. Beaulieu back to the show for his third appearance. Justin and Brad dig into what makes an epic fantasy a commercial success and how his new novel, Twelve Kings in Sharakai, might fit that model. The conversation then turns to Brad’s podcast, Speculate SF, and some new science fiction and fantasy titles of interest to both.

Brad Beaulieu is the author of the Lays of Anuskaya Trilogy, and his short story collection Lest Our Passage Be Forgotten and Other Stories was published via Kickstarter. He’s a former winner of the Writers of the Future and his newest novel, The Twelve Kings in Sharakai (released as Twelve Kings in the UK) is out now—read an excerpt here on Tor.com. Brad is also the co-host of Speculate SF, a podcast for writers, readers, and fans.

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David Liss is the author of many novels. His debut novel, A Conspiracy of Paper (2000) with its hero, the pugilist turned private investigator Benjamin Weaver, was named a New York Times Notable Book and won him the 2001 Barry, MacAvity and Edgar awards for Best First Novel. Born in New Jersey and raised in Florida, David is, in fact, a one-time encyclopedia salesman. He received his B.A. from Syracuse University, an M.A. from Georgia State University and his M.Phil from Columbia University, where he left his dissertation unfinished to pursue his writing career. His new novel, Randoms, is his first foray into science fiction.

Rocket Talk, Episode 62 (37:14)

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

Rocket Talk, Episode 61 (46:19)

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

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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.

Rocket Talk, Episode 60 (56:50)

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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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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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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.

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Andrea Phillips is a transmedia game designer and writer. She published A Creator’s Guide to Transmedia Storytelling in 2012, and in 2013 successfully funded a project on Kickstarter called The Daring Adventures of Captain Lucy Smokeheart. Her newest story telling endeavor is a novel called Revision, available May 5th from Fireside Books. Follow Andrea on Twitter @andrhia.

Rocket Talk, Episode 52 (46:44)

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