June 1 —

Multiple-award-winning SF grand master Brian Aldiss told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, HARM, was written in anger and disgust when faced with the fact that both Great Britain and the United States regularly question and brutally torture a percentage of their prisoners.

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May 31 —

Alternate history author Robert Conroy, whose novel 1862 is a finalist for this year’s Sidewise Award, told SCI FI Wire that one of the difficult things about writing the book was that the Civil War is an emotional hot button for many people, some of whom don’t quite believe it’s over.

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May 30 —

Multiple-award-winning SF author Allen Steele told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Spindrift, is set in the same universe as his Hugo Award-winning Coyote series.

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May 29 —

Best-selling fantasy author Charlaine Harris–whose Sookie Stackhouse novels are being adapted into the HBO series True Blood–told SCI FI Wire that Sookie’s latest adventure, All Together Dead, finds her in the entourage of the vampire Queen of Louisiana, who is traveling to a summit in the city of Rhodes.

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May 25 —

SF and fantasy author John C. Wright told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Titans of Chaos, concludes his Chronicles of Chaos trilogy. “The tale concerns five orphans who are convinced that they are not human beings,” Wright said in an interview.

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May 23 —

Multiple-award-winning author Tim Powers–whose latest novel, Three Days to Never, is a finalist for this year’s Locus Award–told SCI FI Wire that the book revolves around a time machine that Albert Einstein left in a garage in Pasadena, Calif.

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May 22–

SF and fantasy editor John Klima told SCI FI Wire that his anthology Logorrhea features stories that are each based on a word that won the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

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May 14 —

Multiple-award-winning SF author Ken MacLeod told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, The Execution Channel, is set about a decade hence in a slightly alternate future in which the present wars have spread across the Middle East.

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May 13 —

Multiple award-winning fantasy author China Miéville told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Un Lun Dun, is his first foray into young-adult fiction. “I’ve always wanted to write a story for younger readers,” Miéville said.

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May 10 —

SF author Jana G. Oliver, whose novel Sojourn is a finalist for this year’s Compton Crook Award for best first novel, told SCI FI Wire that the book came from two concepts she wanted to explore: the idea of personal legacy and the moral dilemma inherent in time travel.

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