b"Catherine Asaro discusses The Vanished Seas, an entry in the Major Bhaajan science fiction mystery series set in the world of Asaro's Skolian Empire. Asaro talks about the characters and the deep history of her setting, the city of Cries on the planet Raylicon\\u2014a city stratified by an opulent metropolis on the surface with a hardscrabble underground section below called the Undercity\\u2014and the manner in which her private investigator is able to bridge both worlds; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 21."