What If? Science Fiction/ Fantasy Writers
Episodes
Sebastien de Castell - Our Lady of Blades
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
'A spirited swashbuckling fantasy about family, revenge and the price of justice' - Silvia Moreno-Garcia, author of Mexican GothicTwo sisters: di...
J.M. Clarke & C.J. Thompson - Rune Seeker
20 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Everfail will rise. His enemies will fall.Hiral is the Everfail, the weakest person on the flying island of Fallen Reach. He trains harder than an...
J.M. Shaw - Ascension
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
.A hidden war is spilling into our world.Two realms. One veil. A conflict that won’t stay buried.Callum Walker never asked for power — and he cert...
Douglas E. Richards - Split Second
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps the most original take on time travel in 50 years. One of the top 100 paid books in the Kindle store for over seven months. From the master of...
James Voorhees - The Dragon Constellation
13 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Thaddeus, the vampire, is on a quest to save all of time and space as he searches for his lost love. Follow his quest as he collects the weapons neede...
James L. Hill - The Moth
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From the dark distant past to the far-flung fantastic future comes crimes of passion and hopeful heroes.The world has fallen back into a more dea...
Tricia Copeland - Of Witches and Vampires
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Sentenced to a life of solitude, she relishes fleeting periods of happiness unaware of the consequences of her joy.Lilith enjoyed many comforts in her...
Pat Daily - Embers
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Award-winning author Pat Daily is back with his fourth book in The Spark Chronicles.The world is moving ever closer to a global nuclear conflict. Tech...
Seth Voorhees - Immune : Rise of the Inflicted
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In Seth Voorhees' post-apocalyptic science fiction novel, Immune: Rise of the Inflicted, readers will be taken on an amazing ride in this dystopian th...
Jocie McKade - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It all began with a dog.Not a normal dog, no. A billion dollar robotic prototype. Enter me, Hope Remmie, software writing, self-imposed recluse. My em...
Leo X Robertson - Barhopping for Astronauts
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Future is weird ... bring a drink.An influencer lets the internet puppet his brand-new cyber-limbs.Door-to-door sales-things arrive with a televis...
Peter Solomon - 100 Years to Extinction
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if Stephen Hawking was right—and we have less than a century to avoid extinction?When EMT Liz Arvad is shot while saving a life, her recovery s...
James L. Hill - The Ruby Cradle
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is the turn of the nineteenth century. The industrial age has begun. Steam powered ships has taken over the oceans. Factories are going up across E...
Ryan Melsom - Gods of a New World
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The trillionaires were powerful enough to reshape the world, but it wasn’t enough. Now they want more . . .In a world where trillionaires assisted b...
Jason Kristopher - The Dying of the Light Series
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where the dead hunger for the living, these classified tales reveal humanity's darkest hours and unexpected heroes. From remote wilderness ...
Ally Walker - The Light Runner
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first exciting installment in the Realities series!Things aren't as they appear to be at Bainbridge Psychiatric Hospital. Decorated war hero and p...
Chad Dulac - Cogs of Legend Book 1: Awakening Fire
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world powered by steam and ruled by corporations, one young woman’s discovery will ignite a revolution.Alice is a gifted but underappreciated t...
C.C. Robinson - Caged Book Two
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The walls are closing in on Rose.But when powerful enemies move her from house arrest to a literal prison, Rose finds herself alone. Caged. And withou...
David North-Martino - Year of the Demon
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To his martial arts students, Vance Palladian is more than just a teacher; he is the Paladin, a man of warrior virtue. Now a widower, and with his fin...
Robert Boris - Dark Sun
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
BLACK SUN, our newest and most advanced superplane, is considered the “Ultimate War Weapon,” an aircraft no adversary would dare to confront. ...
Michael C. Bland - The Price of Freedom
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's 2047. The rebellion has been crushed. The Agency is reestablishing control. Rebel leader Dray Quintero languishes in his cell, struggling ag...
D.C. Gomez - Cursed by Fur
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Texarkana, where Death's Interns are working overtime—and the body count is rising.Meet Death's Interns: part-time grim reapers, full-tim...
Don Sawyer - Tunnels of Buda
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don Sawyer's THE TUNNELS OF BUDA, the second romantic fantasy thriller in the Soul Catcher series, in which a magical gem maker and an empath struggle...
Bjorn Leesson - Rune of Whispers
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Myrgjol the Dokkrsdottir’s path may be fraught with physical dangers and battle, but some wars are fought with whispered words and deceitful lies. W...
Brad C. Anderson - Ashme's Song
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Violence has an echo, growing louder with each reverberation . . . how do you stop its echo once it starts ringing?Ashme is a New Mesopotamian--a "Mes...
Tricia Copeland - Drops of Sunshine
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Her only goal in taking the camp counselor job far from home was to escape everyone who knew anything about her past. So how does a camper know about ...
Brian D. Anderson - The Sorcerer's Song (3 book series)
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Bard's Blade is the start of the new Sorcerer's Song fantasy adventure series from Brian D. Anderson, bestselling author of The Godling Chron...
Arthur Slade - Dragon Assassin 1: Twin Fury
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
She's the only dragonrider in the world of Ellos. The empire wants her dead. But her dragon's snarky sense of humor might kill her first.Carmen is an ...
James Bow - The Sun Runners
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Hello, people of Mercury. This is planet Earth. Are you receiving this? Please respond.”Lieutenant Adelheid Koning was only twenty-three whe...
Machiel Hoek - The Girl Who Changed the World
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dive into "The Girl Who Changed The World," where Lisa's journey of self-discovery unravels the mysteries of life, guided by her enigmatic grandfather...
Tricia Copeland - To Be A Fae Rogue
14 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I am dead, and I need not abide by any law but my own.” - TitaniaUnknown to most fae, their biggest threat lies beneath them, watching, waiting p...
J.M. Shaw - Callum Walker Series
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Winter War is over, but another battle has begun—the tug-of-war between the darkness and the purveyor of light. Theia, The Goddess of Light, ste...
Jonni Jordyn - The Lost Art of Magic
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Real old-time magic returns when a sixteen-year-old girl is taught one of the few ancient skills remaining to her family clan: how to traverse ancestr...
Kate Risse - Inland
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Inland is a harrowing account of separation and resilience as two families struggle to reunite after the Eastern Seaboard succumbs to catastrophi...
CC Robinson - Divided: Book One in the Divided Series
10 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Impenetrable walls. Ethnic division. A ruthless dictator.Escape. It’s all eighteen-year-old Marcos Sanchez can think about as he stares at the ...
Don Sawyer - Burning Gem
03 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Burning Gem spins from chance meeting of a woman ready for adventure after years in a loveless marriage and a mysterious artisan who will sho...
Rick Poldark - Cryptid Slayer
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Monster slayer Sandra Barlowe ventures to Madrugar, Mexico to investigate the brutal death of a local rancher. While the signs initially point to a va...
Scott Overton - Oceanus
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Oceanus CrisisA deadly blast of unknown energy strikes a jetliner over the Pacific Ocean.Hostile aliens? Or a new and unthinkably powerful form of...
Keith Anthony Baird - Sin: thetica
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Sino-Nippon war is over. It is 2113 and Japan is crushed under the might of Chinese-Allied Forces. A former Coalition Corps soldier, US Marine Bal...
Robert J Sawyer - The Downloaded
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario.One group consists of astronauts preparing fo...
MB Mooney - Shield of the King: Elowen Book 1
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
She may not be the hero they want, but she is the one they need.Born in a kingdom where women are kept from power, Elowen has been trained as a warrio...
Brian A. Nelson - The Great Unmaking (The Course of Empire Series Book 3)
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A propulsive, mind-expanding thriller—and the world-shaking conclusion to the Course of Empire trilogy—about bold scientific dreams turning into n...
Steve Truitt - The MindSet Chronicles: Book One - The Deletion
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a world where artificial intelligence has become an integral part of daily life, the sudden death of all AI sends society into a tailspin – a dis...
Matthew Hughes - A God in Hiding
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a far-future world of wizards and walled cities, Lieve Reder has risen from being a small chandler’s daughter to become the captain of a riverboa...
W.L. Hawkin - To Dance with Destiny (Hollystone Mysteries Book 5)
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Twin wolves howled beneath a turquoise crescent moon, their bushy manes wild and ruffled and knotted by the winds of change. “It’s us. You over my...
Nzondi - Oware Mosaic
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Bram Stoker Winner for Best Young Adult NovelIn the Metaverse, No One Knows the Dead Better than Feeni XoThe story is set on alternate Earth and follo...
Edo Van Belkom & Mark Leslie - Death Drives a Semi: 25th Anniversary
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keep one eye on the road ahead and another on the rearview mirror.Because, like the legendary phantom semi of this book's titular story, these stories...
Richard H Stephens - Windwalker
22 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
'The White Witch had foreseen Pecklyn’s death at Grim Watch Tower. If the Queen of the Fae was to be trusted, Pecklyn wasn’t coming back.'Maturing...
Susy Smith - Ascendant
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world has disintegrated. Civilization has collapsed. Chaos is the new normal.But I, Lacy Monroe, intend to survive.My lover Jace and I can't escap...
Cyndi Brec - Scarred Secrets prequel
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the shadows of back alleys, a charismatic schemer gives orders to kill—death is his weapon.In an underground, dark vaulted library, a rare mystic...
Spencer Sekulin & JR Johnson - Writers of the Future
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
24 Award-winning Authors and IllustratorsBonus Short Stories by Kevin J. Anderson • L. Ron Hubbard • S. M. StirlingArt and Writing Tips by&nb...
Robert J. Sawyer - L. Ron Hubbard Award Winner
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“An imaginative restructuring of a phantasmagoric life into an alternative phantasmagorical story. Oppenheimer fans will be intrigued.” —Martin ...
Claudia Christian & Chris McAuley - Dark Legacies
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dark Legacies is a Science Fiction universe created by Chris McAuley and Babylon 5 legend Claudia Christian. It is set after Earth emerges from a brut...
Jim Hepburn - Hunted by Fire
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What is fifteen-year-old Felix Deltorei supposed to do when he longs for rebellion? In his world, where the dragon Gods reign with barbaric force, suc...
The Malevolent Seven - Sebastien de Castell
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
4.9 - May 22/2023 Alan R Warren & David North-Martino Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
David M. Kelly - Kwelengsen Swarm Book 3
20 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How long can one man keep fighting?Logan's dreams of a peaceful life on Kwelengsen have been shattered. A final battle with the Corporate forces seems...
Michael C. Bland - Price of Rebellion
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dray Quintero learned an ugly truth: the leaders in D.C. are fake. They've stolen the identities of those elected to Congress and are determined to st...
Robert J Crane - Shadows (Girl in the Box 54)
29 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When a dozen bodies turn up with Sienna Nealon's name carved into them, it's just another day in the life for her. But when it happens the day before ...
David Darling - Edge of Time: A Time Travel Adventure Novel
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the bestselling author of the Noah Hunter series, and Grim Measures, comes a novel that spans centuries as a farmer from the 1700s and an FBI age...
Tim Ahrens - The Grand Game
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A Grand Game of Dark Creatures has Begun!Three new Gods join the Janus’s in the madness that has become a Grand Game of Dark Creatures. Circe, Godde...
Steven W. Booth - Continuity
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Carlos San Sebastián is the heir to the patriarchy of a family of time-travellers who values strength over empathy, cunning over caring, and pleasure...
Edo van Belkom - Wolf Pack
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing gets between a wolf and its pack…Most of the time, Noble, Argus, Harlan and Tora are like any other teenagers. Prowling the halls of their h...
Jackiem Joyner - TimeLab
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Bernard, a seasoned and trusted scientist, living in the time of King Caesar, is lauded by many… until his invention sparks rage and fear among ...
Violet Fenn - A History of the Vampires in Popular Culture
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our enduring love of vampires - the bad boys (and girls) of paranormal fantasy - has persisted for centuries. Despite being bloodthirsty, heartless ki...
Sebastien de Castell - Way of the Argosi (Spellslinger Book 7)
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ten year old Ferius Parfax has a simple plan: kill every last inhabitant of the spell-gifted nation that destroyed her people, starting with the man w...
W.L. Hawkin - To Kill a King
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sorcha just wanted to warn Ruairí of his fate until she saw him and fell in love. How could she leave him to be ritually murdered and cast in a bog t...
V.S. Holmes - (Stars Edge: Nel Bently Book 4)
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Without Earth, Nel has nowhere left to runHot-tempered Dr. Nel Bently is not cut out to save the world. After her last project ended in fire and death...
Kristi Charish - Owl and the Tiger Thieves
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Through no fault of her own, Alix has found herself essential to the fate of the world as we know it. She didn’t mean for this to happen—she was q...
Jenna Greene - Renew
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Haunted by memories of those left behind, Lexil and Finn are forced to venture back into the Wastelands.The Unclaimed Cities are not the idyllic setti...
Connor Garrett & Kevin Garrett - Spellbound Under The Spanish Moss: A Southern Tale of Magic Kindle Edition
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Young Gareth Greyfin must find a way to save his father Samuel after he is bitten by a one-eyed snake. With little time before the venom will reach hi...
Edward Willett - Shapers of Worlds Volume II
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on Aurora Award-winning pod...
Paul Bahou - Sunset Distortion
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lazer is an almost made it, middle-aged guitarist who plays in an 80's hard rock cover band at a Sunset Strip dive bar. While not quite a rock star, h...
Nzondi (Ace Antonio Hall) - Oware Mosaic
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Decades after a cataclysmic nuclear war, Ghanaian scientists develop technology that store consciousness onto data orbs called retcons. Seventeen-year...
D.C. Gomez - The Traitor
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Witches, Demons, and Shifters are all landing in Salem. But who do you trust?Eric’s search for Rafael, the Order’s betrayer, is leading to a dead ...
Robert J. Sawyer - Oppenheimer Alternative
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Writing with “a sense of wonder that hasn’t prevailed since the days of Heinlein” (Books in Canada), best-novel Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Rob...
Richard A. Clarke - Artificial Intelligencia
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
3.19 - July 16/2022 Alan R Warren & David North-Martino Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Pat Daily - Spark
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In his mother’s last letter, she wrote, “Find me. Save me.” And Will Kwan had heard those words before. He’d heard them in a video game.Solar ...
Mercedes Lackey - Briarheart
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From beloved fantasy author Mercedes Lackey comes a fresh and feminist reinterpretation of Sleeping Beauty. Miriam may be the daughter of Queen A...
Michael Landweber - The Damage Done
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Violence is a thing of the past—but do new horrors lie in wait? Imagine a world devoid of violence—a world where fists can’t hit, guns don’...
Mark Leslie - Fright Nights, Big City
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Not when the Big Apple comes under attack from an infectious worm threatening to rot it, and the entire nation, to the core.Michael Andrews thought he...
Mark Everglade - Inertia
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gliese 581g is the last remaining colony of the human race, located twenty light years from Earth. The planet was once tidal locked to its sun, with o...
Richard H. Stephens - Keeper of the Jewel
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s time to bestow your sword with a magic befitting a future queen. A queen who will walk the winds of fate on the back of dragonkind.”~Eolan...
W.L. Hawkin - To Step with Stones
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"The whole narrative plays out like an HBO show waiting to be developed, combining elements of LGBTQ+ and adult storytelling into a complex character ...
Anna J. Walner - Book Two The Uluru Legacy
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The thrilling continuation of the Uluru Legacy Series.While some questions will be answered, more will be raised. As new truths come to light, and new...
Kathrin Hutson - Demon's Trade
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a tracker of curse magic, dark artifacts, and forbidden netherwork, Kali Sullivan is one of a kind, and not just as a bounty hunter. They think she...
Jonathan Brooks - Core Establishment
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Milton Frederick never had the chance to live out his life as a professional gamer on Earth, mainly because he was abducted by aliens. Unfortunately, ...
Gareth Powell - Stars and Bones
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabi...
DC Gomez - Death's Intern
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A talking cat, a boy genius, missing people, and an untrained Intern for Death. What could possibly go wrong?Did that really happen?There’s no way D...
Fern Brady - United Vidden
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shattered by her father’s decision to deny her the throne as the first female heir of Dravidia, Princess Verena makes the worst mistake of her life:...
David M. Kelly - Kwelengsen Dawn
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When you lose everything you love, the whole world becomes the enemy.After his planet was invaded by ruthless Corporate forces, engineer Logan Twofeat...
Chris Holm - Child Zero
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It began four years ago with a worldwide uptick of bacterial infections: meningitis in Frankfurt, cholera in Johannesburg, tuberculosis in New Delhi. ...
Brad C. Anderson - Duatero
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A searing far-future science fiction adventure about a lost human colony struggling to survive on an alien planet--no matter what the cost.Majstro Fal...
Andrea Faye Christians - Suspension
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An unexpected time travel tale. When Carla Thompson falls asleep and doesn't wake up, she isshocked to discover what destiny has in store for her. Sus...
Alex Shvartsman - The Middling Affliction: The Conradverse Chronicles, Book 1
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"With the fast-paced first Conradverse urban fantasy, Shvartsman (Eridani’s Crown) delivers a laugh-out-loud, snarky adventure, throwing out pop cul...
Keith Anthony Baird - In the Grimdark Strands of the Spinneret: A Fairy Tale For Elders
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Betrayal brings grave ending to a noble bloodline. Forced to flee, its sole surviving heir is spared this fate by the timely intervention of a haunter...
Charles V. Breakfield and Rox Burkey - The Enigma Series
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
R-Group – The most connected cyber heroes in the world! Founded after decrypting the German Enigma Machine code for military strategy the three foun...
Richard Paolinelli - Galen's Way: A Starquest 4th Age Adventure
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of years in the future, humanity has been driven out of the Milky Way and now calls the Andromeda Galaxy home. Lost in their murky past are t...
Jeff McArthur - Relic Worlds
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lancaster James is scouring ancient ruins of long lost civilizations on distant planets in search of powerful relics that may unlock the greatest secr...
RICK POLDARK - RETURN TO PRIMORDIAL ISLAND
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Barely surviving her first expedition to the primordial island, Dr. Tracey Moran joins a mission to rescue those left behind. Better armed and prepare...
Edward Willett - Star Song
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From an Aurora Award-winning author comes a thrilling young-adult outer-space adventure.When the old woman who raised him in a remote village is murde...