For people who were unfamiliar with the comics, seeing a technologically advanced country populated entirely by black people in the movie Black Panther was a revelation. But in her new novel Where It Rains In Color (paperback, Kindle), writer Denise Crittendon is going one step further by creating a black planet. In the following email interview, she discusses what inspired and influenced this Afrofuturistic sci-fi space opera story.
Sometimes it can be difficult to keep literary subgenres straight, especially where science fiction, fantasy, and horror are concerned. Dieselpunk, grimdark, silkpunk — you practically need a dictionary to keep them all straight. Or, barring that, a really good genre-specific anthology. Which brings me to the follow email interview with Justine Norton-Kertson, the editor of Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology (paperback, eBook), in which they not only explains what “lunarpunk” means, and how it relates to “solarpunk,” but also what went into this collection of short stories and poetry.
While it may be a while before we get to take control of Splinter Cell hero Sam Fisher, the iconic video game hero isn’t just sitting around the house, watching TV. In the following email interview, writer James Swallow discusses Sam’s latest outing in novel form, Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Dragonfire (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).
With The Infinite (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) writer Ada Hoffmann is concluding the epic cosmic horror sci-fi space opera trilogy she launched in 2019 with The Outside, and continued two years later with The Fallen. In the following email interview, Hoffmann discusses who and what inspired and influenced this third and final installment, including some rather familiar fuzzy bastards.
If there’s one thing people love as much as zombies, it’s ZOMBIES…IN…SPACE… It’s one of many reasons why people love the Invader subseries of the survival board game Zombicide.
And it’s that popularity that’s led CMON Games to team with Aconyte Books for a series of Zombicide: Invader novels.
In the following email interview with writer Cath Lauria, she discusses her contribution to this series, the adventure sci-fi horror novel Zombicide: Invader: Terror World (paperback, Kindle).
It’s been ten years since we last heard from Tiger and Del, the titular characters of Jennifer Roberson’s romantic fantasy series. In the following email interview, Roberson discusses their return in the new novel Sword-Bearer (paperback, Kindle), including why fans won’t have to wait another ten years for their next adventure.
It’s sadly not uncommon for someone to angrily tell another person, “This is all your fault.” But in Maria Dong’s psychological suspense novel Liar, Dreamer, Thief (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), a man named Kurt goes one step further by telling his coworker Katrina that it’s all her fault, and then he jumps off a bridge. And that’s how this story starts. In the following email interview, Dong discusses what inspired and influenced this obviously intense thriller.
While it’s been nearly four years since the most recent game came out, and there’s no word on when the next one will be released, fans of The Division series haven’t had to go cold turkey where pandemic-related post-apocalyptic shooters are concerned. Not so long as writer Thomas Parrott is still working the keyboard. In the following email interview, Parrott discusses his new novel, Tom Clancy’s The Division: Compromised (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), his sequel to 2022’s The Division: Recruited.