Paul Semel
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paulsemel.com | Paul Semel
As a kid who grew up in the suburbs in the ’70s and ’80s, I heard many of the urban legends that were passed around like stolen issues of Playboy: Cropsey, Bloody Mary, the one about how someone flushed a baby alligator down the toilet and now it lives in the sewers below Manhattan. But somehow missed the one about the weird arcade game that drove people crazy.
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paulsemel.com | Paul Semel
While it may sound like the name of a Paw Patrol-like cartoon about military dogs, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s 2017 novel Dogs Of War was actually a hard science fiction novel in which the military engineers animals into weapons…including, yes, dogs. With Tchaikovsky now releasing a second sequel to Dogs called Bee Speaker (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), I spoke to him via email about what inspired and influenced this third book, as well as how it connects to the previous two.
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paulsemel.com | Paul Semel
With all due respect to Beyonce, Metallica, and everyone else who went on tour in the summer of 2024, the biggest tour of that summer, on many levels, was Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, which had her playing 149 shows in 51 cities to the tune (literally) of two billion dollars.. But since not every city got to host to that tour, some Swifties had to take road trips to see their favorite singer.
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paulsemel.com | Paul Semel
We all know love can be exciting and new (well, assuming you’ve seen The Love Boat). But in Annie Mare’s romantic science fiction / fantasy novel Cosmic Love At The Multiverse Hair Salon (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), it’s also multiversal, queer, and well-coiffed. In the following email interview, Mare discusses what inspired and influenced this stylish story, as well as how romantic it can be.
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paulsemel.com | Paul Semel
Science fiction is full of lovable rogues, from Star Trek‘s James T. Kirk and Star Wars‘ Han Solo or Firefly‘s Mal Reynolds and the MCU’s Star-Lord. But in the following email interview, author A. Zaykova says the lovable rogue at the center of her noir sci-fi space opera novel Galaxy Grifter (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) is actually more rogue than lovable.
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