Tag: spy novels

• Paul Semel Interviews Me About Ishtar Deception

  There’s a new interview with me up, at Paul Semel’s excellent paulsemel.com Web log. You can read the interview here. We talk about the book, how I came to write it, my influences, and some details about the Billion Worlds.

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  June 2, 2026

  Books, Weblogs

  hard science fiction, James L. Cambias, science fiction, science fiction spy stories, spy novels, spy stories, The Ishtar Deception, venus

• Ishtar Deception: The Movie

  No, Hollywood hasn’t come calling (yet). But the Campaign for the American Reader’s “My Book: The Movie” blog has a post up featuring my thoughts on who I’d cast as various characters in The Ishtar Deception. Read it here.

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  June 2, 2026

  Books, Film, Weblogs

  science fiction, Baen Books, The Ishtar Deception, spy novels, hard science fiction, venus, James Cambias, Movies

• The Ishtar Deception Faces Its First Test

  “The Page 69 Test” is a blog, part of the “Campaign for the American Reader” family of Web sites. Its specific focus is on whether Page 69 of a book gives the reader a good idea of what the rest of the volume is like. (It’s based on a quote from Marshall McLuhan.) You can…

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  May 29, 2026

  Books, Weblogs

  Baen Books, Books, Cambias, hard science fiction, James Cambias, James L. Cambias, science fiction, spy novels, terraforming, The Ishtar Deception, venus

• Unboxed!

  I got my box of author copies of The Ishtar Deception, so here’s a first look! The official publication date is June 2, so now is the time to make sure your local book store has it on order, and to put in your advance orders on Amazon. And as always, if you are caught,…

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  May 17, 2026

  Books

  Baen Books, Books, hard science fiction, James L. Cambias, new books, science fiction, spies, spy novels, The Ishtar Deception, venus