I enjoyed talking to David Varno this summer; his interview with me is now up at Publishers Weekly:

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...

And Booklist's Terry Hong gave SBDD a wonderful starred review, calling it "a stupendous tome, a synergistic reclamation of East-West history, acrobatic sf, and biting sociopolitical commentary presented as three distinct prongs that brilliantly meld by the book’s end."

https://www.booklistonline.com/Same-B...