This week Mahvesh is joined by Audrey Niffenegger, known best for her massively successful debut novel The Time Traveler’s Wife. Together they talk about Audrey’s books, what it’s like to write both novels and create illustrated works side by side, what’s up with The Time Traveler’s Wife sequel, and yes, bad taxidermy, too.

And in this week’s Under the Radar segment, Mahvesh talks about Kuzhali Manickavel’s strange, fascinating little shorts in her new anthology Things We Found During the Autopsy.

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This week Mahvesh is joined by Patrick Ness, author of the Chaos Walking trilogy, A Monster Calls and More Than This. He’s the winner of two Carnegie Medals, a Guardian Children’s Fiction prize, a Tiptree Award and a Costa Book Award, and he’s also been on the Clarke Award shortlist in 2011. Patrick’s beautiful, frightening novel A Monster Calls is currently in development as a feature film starring Sigourney Weaver and Liam Neeson, so naturally we gushed about Sigourney on the podcast, as well as Prince. Patrick also tells us about his next book due out in 2015.

And in this week’s Under the Radar segment, Mahvesh talks about an early feminist classic from the subcontinent called Sultana’s Dream.

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This week Midnight in Karachi is back from winter break and featuring an interview with writer Megan Abbott, who has been called the Queen of Noir. Megan’s 7 novels include the most recent The Fever and Dare Me. She’s been nominated for 3 Edgar Awards, the Hammett Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In this episode, she tells us about her work and her influences, including the iconic Flowers in the Attic series.

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This week’s guest is Adam Roberts—academic, critic and prolific writer with a number of pseudonyms and a couple of dozen novels. He’s been nominated for the Clarke Award three times and has won both the BSFA Award and the Campbell Memorial Award. Adam talks about writing in various forms, Tolkien, judging awards, and how all his books are secretly outsourced to someone else.

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This episode takes a break from its usual transmission to bring you a story called “The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman T Malik, as read by Mahvesh Murad. The story was originally published in Qualia Nous, edited by Michael Bailey. It can be read online for free here.

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This week Mahvesh talks to Robert Sharp, author of the novella The Good Shabti about writing mummy stories and thrillers, jumping between time lines, the importance of literature in translation, SF in translation, free speech and the work he does with English PEN. This week’s Under the Radar segment features the YA anthology Eat the Sky, Drink the Ocean.

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This week’s podcast features Monica Byrne, whose debut novel The Girl in the Road has been featured on a number of Best of 2014 lists and has just been nominated for The Kitschies Golden Tentacle award. Mahvesh talks to Monica about diversity in fiction, the blurred genre that is both SF and ‘literary’ fiction, writing from privilege, and travelling the world.

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This week Midnight in Karachi features two interviews, with writers Kelly Link and Becky Chambers. Kelly talks to Mahvesh about her new collection, Get in Trouble, unique reading experiences, creative writing degrees, identifying your readers, and that Ishiguro book. And on the Under the Radar segment, Mahvesh speaks with debut novelist Becky Chambers, whose self-published space opera The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet has been making waves with its recent award nomination and its sale to UK publisher Hodderscape.

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This week Midnight in Karachi features the editors of the latest Jurassic London anthologies Jews versus Aliens and Jews versus Zombies. Rebecca Levene and Lavie Tidhar talk about how these anthologies came to be, the line between irreverence and offensiveness, and what’s next for each of them personally. And on Under the Radar, Mahvesh speaks with Bangladeshi writer Saad Hossain about his debut novel Escape from Baghdad, South Asian mythology, jinns, and gonzo literature.

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In this episode of Midnight in Karachi, Mahvesh speaks with writer Andrew Smith about learning from teenagers, whether YA can be too dark and a certain interview that created a bit of an uproar a few weeks ago. And on Under the Radar we hear from Musharraf Ali Farooqi, translator of the Urdu fantasy epic Hoshruba, which is being serialised right here on Tor.com.

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Genevieve Valentine is this week’s guest on Midnight in Karachi. She tells us about her recent novel Persona, writing DC’s Catwoman comics, Gotham, and her love for terrible TV. You can read an excerpt from Persona here on Tor.com.

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This week, Clarke award winner Emily St. John Mandel joins Mahvesh to talk about Station Eleven, which bits of the apocalypse interest her, Shakespeare, and reading voraciously as a child. And on the Under the Radar segment, Mahvesh speaks with Will Wiles, writer of the acclaimed Care of Wooden Floors and the Kitschie nominated The Way Inn about the modern gothic, creepy hotels and Ballard.

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This week, World Fantasy Award winner Nnedi Okorafor joins Mahvesh to talk about writing for different age groups, Lagos, teaching to stay sane and stories that are powerful juju.

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This week Mahvesh speaks to writer Sarah Lotz about horror, writing, her new novel Day Four, and the nature of fear.

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Beloved writer of A Face Like Glass, Cuckoo Song and The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge is on the podcast today, talking about some of her award winning books, cheeses that give you visions, and the power of books to rearrange the way you think.

Midnight in Karachi, Episode 15 (29:15)

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This week multi-award winning writer and NYT bestseller Paolo Bacigalupi talks to Mahvesh about his new book The Water Knife, climate change, writing thrillers with strong ideologies, and diversity. You can also read Mahvesh’s review of The Water Knife here on Tor.com.

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This week award winner writer of the Temeraire series Naomi Novik is on the podcast, talking about fanfic, dragons, both real and metaphorical and her much lauded new novel Uprooted—available now in both the US (Del Rey) and UK (Tor Books UK). You can read an excerpt and check out a review of the novel here on Tor.com.

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This week, a writer with many names joins Mahvesh: Catherine Webb has written over a dozen books under her own name and as Kate Griffin and more recently as Claire North. She’s this year’s Campbell award winner for best novel—The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, released as Claire North—and today she talks about her various pseudonyms, inspiration, writing methods and stories.

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This week, writer Daniel José Older joins Mahvesh to talk about urban fantasy, spiritual ancestry, diversity in fiction, questioning the power status quo and the deserving attention the cover for his novel Shadowshaper has received. 

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James Smythe joins Mahvesh on Midnight in Karachi this week, to talk about his new novel Way Down Dark, romance in YA, music and movies, before revealing the name of the sequel to Way Down Dark for the first time.

Midnight in Karachi, Episode 20 (41:04)

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This week on the podcast, Mahvesh speaks with writer Maria Dahvana Headley on writing short stories to release extra ideas, mixing genres in YA, writing uniforms of vintage ballgowns and flight suits, and Grendel’s mother.

Midnight in Karachi, Episode 21 (31:24)

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Writer and editor Jeff VanderMeer joins Mahvesh on the podcast this week to talk about editing anthologies, writing various forms of fiction, and his favourite owls.

Midnight in Karachi, Episode 22 (30:49)

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This week’s guest on the podcast is Rebecca Levene, writer of Smiler’s Fair and The Hunter’s Kind. Here, she talks about worldbuilding without cultural appropriation, Once Upon a Time and working on the Zombies Run! app.

Midnight in Karachi, Episode 23 (27:56)

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This week writer Aliette de Bodard, writer of the Obsidian and Blood books and The House of Shattered Wings joins Mahvesh to talk about Aztecs, angels, making bread and having to draw divisions between speaking different languages. You can read an excerpt from The House of Shattered Wings here on Tor.com!

Midnight in Karachi, Episode 24 (37:24)

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This week writer N.K. Jemisin joins the podcast to talk about ancient epics, having her first book rejected for not having a white cast of characters, the anger that fueled her other work, and why her work should not be considered “groundbreaking.” Jemisin is the writer of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms and The Broken Earth series—book one, The Fifth Season, is available now from Orbit.

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Fantasy writer Kate Elliot talks to Mahvesh this week about how history and the present affects worldbuilding and how fiction can never be neutral.

Episode 26: Kate Elliott (47:56)

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Writer Zen Cho joins Mahvesh this week to talk about the effects of colonialism, finding your own voice and regency romance. Zen is the writer of Spirits Abroad and Sorcerer to the Crown, as well as editor of the anthology Cyberpunk: Malaysia. You can read an excerpt from Sorcerer to the Crown—available this week from Ace Books (US) and Tor UK (UK and Commonwealth)—here on Tor.com!

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Novelist, screenplay writer, comic book writer and Doctor Who fan Paul Cornell joins the podcast to talk about writing various forms, taking inspiration from his surroundings and his latest novella, Witches of Lychford—available now from Tor.com, you can read an excerpt from the novella here!

Episode 28: Paul Cornell (26:52)

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This week Middle Grade & YA writer and winner of the National Book Award, William Alexander joins Midnight in Karachi to talk about his fantasy novel Goblin Secrets, his SF novels Ambassador and Nomad, The Labyrinth, Shakespearean theatre actors and how one could possibly meet Prince at a Minneapolis grocery store.

Episode 29: William Alexander (26:52)

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Stephanie Saulter joins the podcast this week to talk about her ®Evolution trilogy—Gemsigns, Binary, and Regeneration—writing about communities who are considered ‘the other’, and what the categories ‘exotic’ and ‘diaspora’ can mean to those put in them.

Episode 30: Stephanie Saulter (47:50)

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