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Exclusive Interview: “Phoenix Extravagant” Author Yoon Ha Lee

 

When asked the inevitable “where did you get the idea for this story” question, writers will often cite something that happened in their real lives. And while that’s what writer Yoon Ha Lee did in the following email interview about his silkpunk historical fantasy novel Phoenix Extravagant (which is now available in paperback a year after being released in hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook), the real life something he cited was a paint. Not a painting, not his cat getting into his paints, but an actual paint.

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Exclusive Interview: “Attrib. And Other Stories” Author Eley Williams

 

The New Yorker is known as much for its literary content as it is for its cartoons. And with them running only four mini reviews every issue, you know a book must be special to be included. Though what caught my attention about their review of Eley Williams’ Attrib. And Other Stories (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — so much so that I wanted to do the following email interview with her about it — was the opening of that review: “Mischief runs through this collection…”

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Exclusive Interview: “Monster Hunter Bloodlines” Author Larry Correia

 

Like the video games, to which there is no connection, Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International novels have people, well, hunting monsters…just in a different place, and in different ways, and more for profit than survival. All of which comes up in the newest installment, Monster Hunter Bloodlines (hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Correia discusses both the series and this latest chapter, as well as two other newly released books that have his name on the cover.

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Exclusive Interview: “Written In Light” Author Jeff Young

 

If a writer cites Monty Python And The Holy Grail as having influenced one of their stories, you’d probably expect that story to be something in the historical or fantastical realms. But in the following email interview about his sci-fi short story collection Written In Light (paperback, Kindle), writer Jeff Young explains that the Python’s iconic Arthurian comedy was an inspiration to one of these genre tales as well.

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Exclusive Interview: “Monkey Around” Author Jadie Jang

 

We’ve all heard the clichés about how you should write what you know, and how you should look for a void and fill it, and how you should always check before crossing the street… Well, it seems that writer Jadie Jang took the first two to heart (and hopefully the third as well) when it came to writing her new urban fantasy novel Monkey Around (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Jang discusses what influenced this fantastic tale, as well as her hopes for future installments.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Necropolis Empire” Author Tim Pratt

 

Like his novel The Fractured Void, Tim Pratt’s The Necropolis Empire (paperback, Kindle) is a sci-fi space opera based on the strategic board game Twilight Imperium.

But while both novels share the same universe, as he explains in the following email interview about it, Necropolis isn’t a sequel to Fractured…well, not entirely.

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Exclusive Interview: “World Breakers” Co-Editor Christopher Ruocchio

 

While the future may be female, the future is also going to be intelligent and artificial. And some of that A.I. is going to be soldiers.

In the following email interview, writer and editor Christopher Ruocchio discusses World Breakers (paperback, Kindle), a new military sci-fi anthology about A.I. war machines that he not only contributed to but also co-edited with fellow contributor Tony Daniel.

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Exclusive Interview: “Hold Fast Through The Fire” Author K.B. Wagers

 

As Douglas Adams so aptly put it, “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” Which means it may take a while for AAA to show up when your spaceship gets a flat tire. Good thing the Near-Earth Orbital Guard are always at the ready. Well, so long as you get that flat tire while being a character in one of K.B. Wager’s NeoG novels.

In the following email interview, Wagers discusses the second book in this ongoing military sci-fi series, Hold Fast Through The Fire (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), as well as their plans for the future.

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Exclusive Interview: “Gearbreakers” Author Zoe Hana Mikuta

 

They say that adversity makes strange bedfellows. Apparently killing your gods does as well. In Zoe Hana Mikuta cyberpunk / dustpunk sci-fi novel Gearbreakers (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), we’re not only presented with a world in which mechs are worshipped as gods, but one where people are trying to kill them as well. In the following email interview, Mikuta discusses what inspired and influenced what she says is the first half of an epic duology.

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