The Incomparable, number 690, November 2023.

Hello everyone and welcome back to The Incomparable.

I'm your host, Anthony Johnston.

Longtime listeners will know that quite a few incomparable panelists are writers of one

former or another.

Jason Snell himself, you know,

the head honcho, Big Cheese is a renowned tech writer, of course, and several of us are specifically

also fiction writers ranging from we have playwrights, we have radio writers, we have comics writers,

games writers and novelists. And one of those novelists is Dan Moran, who is with me today. Say hello, Dan.

Hi, Anthony. I like that you said comics and a whole bunch of other stuff. And I was like,

I think those are all Anthony. I'm sure I'm not the only person who's written comics on that.

Probably, but yeah. Anyway, so Dan, you have recently published a new novel.

And so this is the latest in a sort of occasional semi-series of episodes that we do on The Incomparable talking to panelists about their work.

Now, listeners out there, fans of Dan's writing, of whom I am one, naturally, and I know

that there are many others amongst our listenership, you will know that up until now, all of Dan's

novels have taken place in his Galactic Cold War universe, a sci-fi setting, but this latest

book that we're here to talk about today is something new. So, Dan,

take it away and tell us about all souls lost. Yeah, all souls lost. I mean, I guess I

determined at one point, I only have one move when it comes to writing, you know, fiction that I'm

interested in, which is to take a couple different genres that I like and like smash them together until eventually it works. So like for the Galactic Cold War,

that was I loved Cold War spy fiction and I loved sci-fi. And so I wanted to combine those.

In this case, with All Souls Lost, I'm a big fan of like hard-boiled slash noir detective novels, as well as enjoying sort of your supernatural

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