Author name: Skiffy Fanty

You all remember Tobias Buckell, right?  He wrote some really awesome books and finally came onto the show for episode 3.0 after we begged him for years and years.  We even sent him stuffed bears with his face on them to convince him to grace us with his presence… Okay, so none of that is true (sadly), but he did come on the show all those episodes ago.  If you haven’t listened to that episode, you probably should (because it’s awesome, obviously). In any case, we finally have some news about Arctic Rising, his latest book.  First, the back cover blurb: Global warming has transformed the Earth, and it’s about to get even hotter. The Arctic ice cap has all but melted, and the international community is racing desperately to claim the massive amounts of oil beneath the newly accessible ocean. Enter the Gaia Corporation. Its two founders have come up with a plan to roll back global warming. They plan to terraform Earth to save it from itself—but in doing so, they have created a superweapon the likes of which the world has never seen. Anika Duncan is an airship pilot for the underfunded United Nations Polar Guard. She’s intent on capturing a smuggled nuclear weapon that has made it into the Polar Circle and bringing the smugglers to justice. Anika finds herself caught up in a plot by a cabal of military agencies and corporations who want Gaia Corporation stopped. But when Gaia loses control of their superweapon, it will be Anika who has to decide the future of the world. Sounds interesting, right? Now for the cover:

Book Cover Blurb: Darla Onomatopoeia  is an amateur Grave Dancer, one of the few people in Manhattan who still practices the ancient, misty art.  But unlike her mother, who once made a cemetery of Civil War veterans come to life and do the cha cha, Darla can barely raise her recently deceased grandmother long enough to teach the old bitty to line dance.  And with the 3,000th Annual Grave Dance Competition coming in two months, she’s desperate to spruce up her skills to show all her Grave Dancing friends that she’s not a loser after all… Enter Alex Craft, dance instructor extraordinaire.  Having out-danced the Grave Witch of Brooklyn, Alex might be the only one who can turn Darla into an effective Grave Dancer.  A half-immortal, half-fae wererabbit, Alex has the skills and determination Darla needs to teach the dead how to dance the “Thriller,” which hasn’t been done…ever.  But Darla has another problem:  an unexpected sexual tension between her and Alex.  Can she resist Alex’s misogynistic charm and rustic good looks?  Or will she let her baser instincts take over and sweep her wererabbit dance instructor off his furry little feet? Grave Dance is a dark tome which hides a great deal of its world in misty obscurity.  Price has created a remarkable piece of curvaceous eye-candy here, cleverly placing character traits at just right angle to direct the reader’s attention to the truly interesting aspects of Darla’s character.  But she has also attempted to hide Darla’s past in a shroud, leaving a great deal to be discovered by the reader in future books. One of the interesting aspects of the book is the fact that it is actually set on an alternate Earth.  Many readers may find