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Exclusive Interview: “Driving The Deep” Author Suzanne Palmer

 

Last year, writer Suzanne Palmer introduced us to space ship repossession specialist Fergus Ferguson in her cheeky sci-fi caper novel, Finder. Well, as they say, you can’t keep a good man down…or a man who tries really, really hard to be good. And so we have Driving The Deep (hardcover, audiobookKindle), the second in Palmer’s The Finder Chronicles. In the following email interview, Palmer discusses what inspired and influenced this second story, as well as her plans for this series going forward.

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Exclusive Interview: “Like Bismuth When I Enter: Poems” Author Carlos Lara

 

Some poets over-think things. They look for a theme where none exists, or decide to center a collection of their work around a theme whether it needs it or not. But poet Carlos Lara has no need for your…themes. In the following email interview about his new collection, Like Bismuth When I Enter (paperback), he explains why this book has no intentional theme…and why that was intentional.

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Exclusive Interview: Ballistic Author Marko Kloos

 

With Ballistic (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), iconic science fiction writer Marko Kloos is continuing the military sci-fi space opera saga The Palladium Wars that he began last year with Aftershocks. In the following email interview, he discusses what inspired and influenced this second installment, as well as his plans for this series going forward.

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Exclusive Interview: The Eleventh Gate Author Nancy Kress

 

In many sci-fi space operas, the way people get around isn’t as important as what they do when they get there. But that’s not true for Nancy Kress’ The Eleventh Gate (paperback, Kindle), in which the means of interplanetary travel actually drives this space tale. In the following email interview, the iconic science fiction writer discusses what inspired this new novel, as well as her new but unrelated GMO-centric science fiction novella, Sea Change (paperback, Kindle).

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Exclusive Interview: “Cry Pilot” Author Joel Dane

 

With Cry Pilot (paperback, Kindle), writer “Joel Dane” (not his real name) is kicking off his military science fiction trilogy of the same name. But unlike some similar sci-fi series, fans of this threesome won’t have to wait years to find out how it ends. In the following email interview, Dane talks about what inspired this trilogy and its accelerated release schedule, as well as why he’s putting them out as Joel Dane instead of his real name.

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Exclusive Interview: “Recursion” Author Blake Crouch

 

In his new novel Recursion (hardcover, Kindle), writer Blake Crouch explores the idea of preserving memories.

But in the following email interview, he explains what inspired it, what influenced it, and why it isn’t a sci-fi medical thriller.

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Exclusive Interview: Oval Author Elvia Wilk

 

After years of writing non-fiction for such outlets as Artforum, e-flux journal, and uncube magazine (where she was a founding editor), writer Elvia Wilk is taking a more fictional route with her first novel, Oval (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Elvia talks about the story’s inspirations, influences, and inclination to be relevant.

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Exclusive Interview: “Unholy Land” Author Lavie Tidhar

 

In the following email interview about his new novel, Unholy Land (paperback, Kindle), writer Lavie Tidhar admits that while the story employs the tenets of noir, fantasy, sci-fi, and mystery, he thinks it may be best described as just “Tidharian.”

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Exclusive Interview: The Wild Dead Author Carrie Vaughn

While so many post-apocalyptic novels are bleak and hopeless, Carrie Vaughn bucked that tradition with her (relatively) more hopeful post-apocalyptic mystery Bannerless. In the following email interview about The Wild Dead (paperback, Kindle), the second book in The Bannerless Saga, Vaughn discusses where she got the idea for this second post-apocalyptic mystery, what inspired it, and where this series may (or may not, as the case may be) be going.