July 20 —

Australian SF/fantasy author Ben Peek told SCI FI Wire that his book Black Sheep is a dystopian novel set in an alternate reality in which the world has been segregated into three mass races: African, Asian and Caucasian.

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July 19 —

Multiple-award-winning editor Ellen Datlow told SCI FI Wire that her latest anthology, The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales, is the third in her “mythic fiction” series, which she co-edits with Terri Windling.

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July 18 —

SF author Kathleen Ann Goonan told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, In War Times, is about World War II soldier Sam Dance, who is given plans to a mysterious device that supposedly has the power to end war.

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July 17 —

Sturgeon Award-winning SF/fantasy author Kage Baker, whose novel The Sons of Heaven concludes her Company series and is July’s SCI FI Essential book, told SCI FI Wire that the book describes the final downfall of Dr. Zeus Inc., on July 9, 2355, when recorded history ends.

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July 13 —

Sturgeon Award-winning SF author David Marusek, whose collection Getting to Know You is a finalist for this year’s Quill Awards, told SCI FI Wire that the book contains all of the short fiction he’s written through 2006.

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July 12 —

SF author Susan Palwick, whose novel The Necessary Beggar is a finalist for this year’s Mythopoeic Awards, told SCI FI Wire that is about a family from another dimension who are sent into exile after one of their members is convicted of a crime.

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July 11 —

Fantasy author Steph Swainston, whose novel Dangerous Offspring concludes her Fourlands trilogy, told SCI FI Wire that the book is about conflict between generations.

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July 9 —

Multiple-award-winning fantasy author Patricia A. McKillip, whose novel Solstice Wood is a finalist for this year’s Mythopoeic Award, told SCI FI Wire that the book is a modern-day sequel to her novel Winter Rose, whose events occurred in the same small village a couple of centuries before.

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July 6 —

SF and fantasy author Benjamin Rosenbaum, whose story “The House Beyond Your Sky” is a finalist for both the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and the Hugo Award, told SCI FI Wire that the story is about Matthias, a post-human entity who is in charge of a house between universes.

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July 5 —

Matthew Sharpe, whose novel Jamestown is a finalist for this year’s Quill Awards, told SCI FI Wire that the book is the story of the Jamestown settlement of 1607, the first viable English settlement in North America.

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