My guest this week here on EATING AUTHORS is unstoppable. She’s earned a doctorate in chemical physics from Harvard, been a ballet dancer, two-term president of SFWA, multiple time winner of the Sapphire Award, the Prism Award, and the Nebula Award. She’s a member of SIGMA, the SF authors think tank that advises the US government. And, oh yeah, she’s a rockstar (literally).

I’m talking of course about Catherine Asaro, known to readers far and wide as the author of the Skolian Saga, a seemingly infinite series of novelettes, novellas and novels that combine politics, hard science, and romance amidst their science fiction plot lines. And despite being well known as an Analog author, she’s also found time to write fantasy, as demonstrated by her very popular Lost Continent series.

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As reported elsewhen on this blog, earlier this year I had the pleasure to attend a convention in a part of the country I had never been, at least not in my guise as an author. Part of what made this so special was it allowed me to see several old friends that I might not have run into again for a good long while, and it introduced me to some new folks I’d not yet met. One such new encounter was with Peter Orullian. We had been assigned a shared reading slot that turned out to be (ahem!) less than overflowing with eager fans. Peter and I passed the time reading to one another and chatting about our projects (and you really should check out his novel, The Unremembered), and while neither of us got the chance to thrill a rabid throng of potential new readers with our work, I know I had a pretty good time.

Naturally, I invited him to come here and tell us about his most memorable meal. Of course, that was too simple. Peter is a bit of an overachiever, as demonstrated by his graduating from high school as class valedictorian, finishing college as Magnua Cum Laude, with a Bachelors in Honors English and Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi keys thrown in for good measure. How did that manifest when I asked him this blog’s weekly question? Well, you’ll see for yourself?

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As you probably know, this year’s list of Hugo nominees was revealed over the weekend, and before we go on to talk about this week’s featured guest here on EATING AUTHORS, it’s worth posting a link for you to go back and review them at your leisure.

Well, now that that’s done, let’s talk about Charles E. Gannon. The trick with Chuck is there’s so much to cover it’s hard to know where to begin. He’s a Fulbright Fellow, a Distinguished Professor of English, a gamer, a well-established short story writer, and a member of SIGMA, the SF Think Tank. His fiction has been known to take him into other authors’ playgrounds, such as the worlds of Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series, David Weber’s Honorverse, the Man-Kzin Wars, and more.

But perhaps the most exciting thing I can tell you about him is that tomorrow is the release date for his new novel, Fire with Fire, and I’m very pleased to share that news with you and encourage you to rush right out and pick up a copy.

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Honestly, I don’t understand where this month has gone. Time has gotten somewhat wonky, as evidenced by the calendar’s insistence that it’s now Springtime despite significant amounts of snow piling up throughout the United States. I think we need a “reset” and so I’ll be using this week’s installment of EATING AUTHORS to bounce us back and forth across the equator in an effort to restore the weather to its proper place. All of which is a rather lame setup and segue to today’s author guest, Adam Christopher.

Originally from Auckland, and the winner of the Sir Julius Vogel award (New Zealand’s highest prize for science fiction) for his work in editing a Doctor Who Fan Club publication, Adam relocated to North West England in 2006 where he promptly began writing superhero novels for Angry Robot. His third such book, The Age Atomic, comes out tomorrow. And while a fourth book, Hang Wire, is expected later this year, he’ll be making the jump from superheroes to space opera with a new work from Tor, coming in March of 2014.

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