“I wrote it for my kids,” says Tony Daniel, “but if you like history and have any relatives who lived through it, you might like the book, too!”
It’s available at several booksellers including Amazon here and Lulu here.
Jeanine Cummins’s bestselling novel ‘American Dirt’ has elicited protests over the author’s belonging to the wrong group to be allowed to write Mexican characters, writes Tony Daniel. He finds this ridiculous, and thinks the real problem is that the book is plodding moralistic melodrama—and thus perfectly suited to be an Oprah’s Book Club selection.
Read the review here.
Uncle Hugo’s and Uncle Edgar’s were legendary among the community of science fiction, fantasy, and mystery readers—and now they’re gone. Rioters burned the Minneapolis mainstay to ruins. Daniel includes an account by owner, Don Blyly.
In the article, Tony Daniel reflects: “The hustle and bustle of the street, the shops and restaurants and churches and halfway houses and all the rest engender this hustle and bustle. When you burn such places down. . . you are not clearing for renewal. You are destroying the very possibility for growth and change in a community. You are killing hope.”
Read the article here.
Tony Daniel’s reviews A State At Any Cost: The Life of David Ben Gurion by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman, at the Federalist. Tony says the book supports an important political lesson from the twentieth century : nationalism, for all its flaws, helped humans survive what could have been a machine-age, science-based Armageddon, and socialism, for all its claims to virtue, nearly wiped out the human species.
The interview is here.
Tony Daniel and Christopher Ruocchio edited science fiction anthology Star Destroyers is now out in mass market paperback format.
Get it here.
The press release is here.
The Dragon Hammer, Book 1 of Tony Daniel’s young adult high fantasy Wulf’s Saga series, is now available as an audiobook from Recorded Books. The Dragon Hammer is also available at Audible.com.
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Tony Daniel argues that CNN legal analyst Joan Biskupic’s biography of Chief Justice John Roberts The Chief is so preoccupied with disagreeing with the man that it doesn’t provide much insight into Roberts’s life and rulings.
Read the review here.
Tony Daniel says historian Ben MacIntyre’s new book, The Spy and the Traitor, tells the thrilling story of how the KGB’s Oleg Gordievsky helped check the Soviet Union as Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan fought communism. Gordievsky’s spying for the West had a definite impact on ending the Cold War and driving victory for freedom and democracy.
Read the review here.
Author copies have arrived with a first look at the cover for The Year’s Best Military & Adventure SF Volume 4 featuring Tony Daniel’s story “Lovers.”
The anthology will be available at booksellers everywhere in June, or pre-order here, among other places.