We’ve all accidentally murdered our bosses and then run off. That’s like a Tuesday for me.
But in Adrian Tchaikovsky humorous science fiction novel Service Model (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the murderer on the run is not a middle-aged man, but a robot. And a robot butler at that.
In the following email interview, Tchaikovsky discusses what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story, which he says is “Mad Max starring C-3PO.”
In the following email interview about her new fantasy novel The God And The Gumiho (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), author Sophie Kim says this story — the first installment of her Fate’s Thread series — is, “…most definitely my love-letter to the K-Drama.”
When President Donald Trump started talking about establishing the U.S. Space Force, a lot of people — myself included — thought it was an idea whose time had not yet come.
But as I learned while doing the following email interview with C. Stuart Hardwick, the editor of the new short story and essay anthology Tales Of The United States Space Force (paperback, Kindle), the Space Force’s roots actually go all the way back to the Cold War, albeit under other names, including President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative.
In the following email interview, Hardwick discusses how this anthology came to be, as well as how it reflects both the truth and the possible future of the Space Force, while not shying away from the snarky comments of us doubters.
There are a lot of anthologies ever year that claim to present the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories.
But one book actually puts them to the test: the annual L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers Of The Future anthology, which presents the winners of the yearly Writers Of The Future contest. [https://www.writersofthefuture.com]
In the following email interview, Jody Lynn Nye, the editor of the newest installment, Writers Of The Future, Volume 40 (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), talks about what this series is all about, how the winners are chosen, and what went into this new installment.
Taking care of someone in need, especially someone you don’t know, is a very noble act.
But in Emmett Nahil new horror novel From The Belly (paperback, Kindle), this act of kindness backfires on a man who takes care of someone who had been swallowed by a whale.
In the following email interview, Nahil discusses what things inspired and influenced this scary story, as well as why a certain famous fable about another man and the inside of a whale was not one of them.
Don’t you hate it when you upload your consciousness to a quantum computer, only to find that you’re sharing hard drive space with some criminals, and that you all have to work together to save the Earth?
Yeah, me too. But that doesn’t mean I don’t like reading stories about it. Stories like Robert J. Sawyer’s science fiction novel The Downloaded (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Sawyer discusses what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story.
Usually, warrior women of the Norse variety are confined to fighting their battles in their native land, and their native times.
But sometimes, they get to travel. And not just to different places, either.
It’s what Myrgiol The Dokkrsdottir is getting to do in her second adventure, Rune Of Renewal (paperback, Kindle), a sword & sorcery fantasy novel by Bjorn Leesson, and the sequel to Runes Of The Dokkrsdottir.
In the following email interview, Leesson discusses what inspired and influenced both this series and this sequel, as well as his planes, sorry plans for more adventures.
Of all the interesting characters in the TV show Game Of Thrones, none captured my attention as much as Brienne Of Tarth, played by the lovely and kick ass Gwendoline Christie.
But clearly I’m not the only one. In the following email interview, author and fellow Gwen-head Charlotte Bond explains that the main character in her new dark fantasy novella The Fireborne Blade (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) was inspired by Thrones‘ most iconic knight.
As anyone who was ever a kid on a playground can tell you, being able to call for a “do-over” would be as great in real life as it was in games of dodgeball.
Doubly so if the thing you’d get to do-over is the destruction of the Earth. Which is what happens, sort of, to Lieutenant Selene Genji of the Unified Fleet in Jack Campbell’s new time traveling science fiction space opera novel In Our Stars (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the first in a two-part series.
In the following email interview, Campbell discusses what inspired and influenced this sci-fi adventure story, as well as why it’s a two-parter.