Fictitious
The Fictitious podcast, hosted by Adron Buske, delves into the craft of Science Fiction and Fantasy storytelling through interviews with authors and other professional writers. These conversations examine the writing process, techniques, and work habits of passionate creators and explore their most recent, and most popular, works.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 96
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2023
Martha Wells, NETWORK EFFECT (The MurderBot Diaries) author
Emily B. Martin, SUNSHIELD author
Alina Boyden, STEALING THUNDER author
Menna van Praag, THE SISTERS GRIMM author
Menna van Praag is the author of THE SISTERS GRIMM (available now from HarperVoyager Books).
It's a dark and evocative tale of four seemingly unrelated young women united by a surreal, supernatural o…
Dan Stout, TITAN'S DAY author
This episode features my first return guest — Dan Stout! His new novel, TITAN'S DAY (DAW Books) is the sequel to one of my favorite books of 2019, TITANSHADE.
TITAN’S DAY returns us to the city of Ti…
Tricia Levenseller, THE SHADOWS BETWEEN US author
Tricia Levenseller is the author of THE SHADOWS BETWEEN US (available now from Feiwel & Friends). It’s a young adult fantasy novel that’s been quite accurately described as a “Slytherin romance”.
It …
K.B. Wagers, A PALE LIGHT IN THE BLACK author
K.B. Wagers is the author of A PALE LIGHT IN THE BLACK (HarperVoyager). It’s a good vibes military space opera that follows the Near Earth Orbital Guard, essentially a spacefaring Coast Guard protect…
Brian Keene, THOR: METAL GODS writer
Season 5 of Fictitious kicks off with Brian Keene, one of the writers on the new Serial Box and Marvel production, THOR: METAL GODS. Brian has authored more than 50 horror, crime, and fantasy novels,…
K. Eason, HOW RORY THORNE DESTROYED THE MULTIVERSE
K. Eason is the author of HOW RORY THORNE DESTROYED THE MULTIVERSE — out now from DAW Books. This charming and subversive fantasy-meets-space opera tale follows a young princess who is uprooted from …
NaNoWriMo 2019 Special — feat. Grant Faulkner
This episode focuses on National Novel Writing Month – NaNoWriMo – in November 2019. Host Adron Buske shares his own experiences participating in NaNo and his plans for this year's project. The episo…
Madeleine Roux, SALVAGED author
Madeleine Roux is the author of the adult sci-fi thriller SALVAGED (Ace Books). Set in deep space, SALVAGED follows Rosalyn Devar, a bioengineer from an influential family who has fled past traumas f…
Clay McLeod Chapman, THE REMAKING author
Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of meta-horror thriller THE REMAKING (Quirk Books). The tragic campfire tale of a mother and daughter burned as witches haunts the imagination of a small town local …
Annalee Newitz, THE FUTURE OF ANOTHER TIMELINE Author
Annalee Newitz is the author of the sci-fi time travel novel, THE FUTURE OF ANOTHER TIMELINE (Tor Books). In a world where present-to-past time travel is an accepted fact, geo-scientist Tess uses her…
Jennifer Giesbrecht, THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN author
Jennifer Giesbrecht is the author of THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN (Tor.com Publishing). This dark fantasy novella follows the unkillable, not-exactly human Johann as he slinks about the smokey, dark cor…
Heli Kennedy, ORPHAN BLACK: THE NEXT CHAPTER writer
Heli Kennedy is a writer on ORPHAN BLACK: THE NEXT CHAPTER, a new continuation of the popular BBC America TV series, this time brought to life as a prose serial, and audio drama narrated by the show’…
10 Points to Slytherin: Why Good Fans Love Evil Characters
Recorded live at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, this panel discussion is called 10 Points to Slytherin: Why Good Fans Love Evil Characters. It features an awesome group of writers: Marissa Meyer (The Luna…
Alix E. Harrow, THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY author
Hugo Award-winner Alix E. Harrow is the author of the historical portal fantasy, THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY (Orbit Books / Red Hook). In the early years of the 20th century, a young girl named…
Katy Rose Pool, THERE WILL COME A DARKNESS author
Katy Rose Pool is the debut author of the young adult fantasy novel, THERE WILL COME A DARKNESS. It’s a world shaped by seven great prophets who, after a two-thousand year reign, vanished a century a…
K. A. Doore, THE PERFECT ASSASSIN author
K. A. Doore is author of THE PERFECT ASSASSIN, a suspense-driven fantasy adventure set in a sand-strewn city of platforms rising above the desert wastes. A young historian takes his first rooftop lea…
Evan Winter, THE RAGE OF DRAGONS author
Evan Winter is the author of the epic fantasy debut, THE RAGE OF DRAGONS (Orbit Books). In a caste-driven society that has known only war for generations, a low-born commoner name Tau's life is destr…