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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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Exclusive Interview: “Ariadne, I Love You” Author J. Ashley Smith

 

In the late ’60s Eric Clapton fell hard for his friend George’s wife, Pattie…and his way of dealing with this unrequited love was to write the now classic album Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs. Not every musician is so lucky. Take the one in J. Ashley Smith’s new musical ghost story, Ariadne, I Love You (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Smith discusses what inspired and influenced this spooky story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Assassin’s Orbit” Author John Appel

 

It’s always fun to see how someone describes a story when they’re trying to be pithy. Take, for instance, how Solaris described John Appel’s sci-fi space opera thriller Assassin’s Orbit (paperback, Kindle, audiobook): “Golden Girls meets The Expanse with a side of Babylon Five.” But as Appel himself admits in the following email interview, that weird mix isn’t that far off.

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Exclusive Interview: “Jillian Vs. Parasite Planet” Author Nicole Kornher-Stace & Artist Scott Brown

 

On the surface, Nicole Kornher-Stace’s new illustrated novel Jillian Vs. Parasite Planet (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) sounds like it’s a middle-grade sci-fi adventure story. But as she and illustrator Scott Brown explain in the following email interview, the story is a bit deep, and thus may also appeal to people in grades 22, 34, 47…

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Exclusive Interview: “Midnight, Water City” Author Chris McKinney

 

If things continue the way they have been, we will one day be living in underwater homes. Which also means someone will be murdered in their underwater home. And when that happens, someone may say, “This reminds me of Midnight, Water City.”

In the following email interview about that novel, author Chris McKinney discusses this noir sci-fi novel (which is now available in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook).