Featuring "the Queen of Crime Fiction", P.D. James, discussing her latest novel, The Children of Men, plus science fiction writers Sean Stewart (Passion Play), David Brin (Earth), Lois McMaster Bujold (Falling Free), Walter Jon Williams ("Prayers on the Wind"), James Patrick Kelly ("Death Therapy"), Roger MacBride Allen (The Modular Man), Michael G. Coney (The Jaws That Bite, The Claws That Catch), and Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens (Second Nature). Rick also interviews John Byrne (artist, The Uncanny X-Men), Matt Wagner (writer, Sandman Mystery Theater), and M.W. Kaluta (artist, The Shadow), about crime and punishment in the world of comic books.