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Exclusive Interview: “Aliens: Vasquez” Author V. Castro

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 7, 2022
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In a movie full of colorful characters, Aliens‘ bad ass space marine Jenette Vasquez still managed to stand out. It is just too bad we don’t get to know her better. Or rather, it was… Now, fans of this bad ass soldier can get to know her better, and her family, too, in V. Castro’s new novel Aliens: Vasquez (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview about it, Castro discusses the scope of this military sci-fi space opera horror story, as well as how her own heritage informed it.

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Exclusive Interview: “Reckoning” Author W. Michael Gear

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 7, 2022
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As fans of W. Michael Gear’s Donovan novels have long known, it was inevitable that The Corporation would eventually send someone to the titular planet to reaffirm control of their errant colony. Which is finally happening in Reckoning (hardcover, Kindle), the sixth Donovan novel. But as fans of these sci-fi adventure novels also know — and as Gear affirms in the following email interview — nothing on Donovan ever goes to plan.

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Exclusive Interview: “Control Freak” Author Cliff Bleszinski

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 3, 2022
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As the very public face of such iconic video game franchises as Gears Of War and Unreal Tournament, designer Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski was, for years, one of the most recognizable faces in videos games. While fellow designers Shigeru Miyamoto (the Mario man) and Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear Solid) were called auteurs, Bleszinski was considered a rock star designer, one that earned the nickname “Dude Huge.” But while the game industry is usually as tightly controlled as the opening mission in a Call Of Duty game, Bleszinski is being far more open, and honest, about himself in his new memoir, Control Freak: My Epic Adventures Making Video Games (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Bleszinski — who I know from my own career covering games — talks about why he took this approach to telling his own story.

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Exclusive Interview: “1637: The Transylvanian Decision” Co-Author Robert E. Waters

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 2, 2022
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For more than 22 years, author Eric Flint wrote or co-wrote dozens of books in his Ring Of Fire series of alternate history novels, while also asking other writers to do the same. It is regarded as one of the best alternate history sagas in science fiction. But while Flint sadly passed away this past summer, the Ring Of Fire story isn’t done just yet. Co-written by Robert E. Waters, 1637: The Transylvanian Decision (hardcover, Kindle) picks up where Flint’s 2020 novel 1637: The Polish Maelstrom left off. In the following email interview, Waters discusses both his contributions to Decision, as well as how he feels about his late collaborator, both personally and professionally.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Dabare Snake Launcher” Author Joelle Presby

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 2, 2022
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When deciding where to set their stories, writers often pick places they know. But in the following email interview about her hard sci-fi novel The Dabare Snake Launcher (paperback, Kindle), writer Joelle Presby admits that while she did this as well, she was driven as much by science as it was by the self.

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Exclusive Interview: “Turning Of The Seasons: A Dark Almanac” Co-Authors J.S. Breukelaar & Seb Doubinsky

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 1, 2022
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For 230 years The Old Farmer’s Almanac has provided long-range weather forcasts, planting charts, and even recipes in what is the longest-running, continuously published periodical in the U.S. But given how we’ve been living in the evil universe or the bad timeline or the upside down for the last couple of years, it’s probably no surprise that someone’s written an evil version called Turning Of The Seasons: A Dark Almanac (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, those someones — J.S. Breukelaar and Seb Doubinsky — discuss what inspired and influenced this collection of fantasy, horror, and sci-fi fairy tales.

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Exclusive Interview: “Trinity’s Children” Author Dave Bara

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date October 31, 2022
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With Trinity’s Children (paperback, Kindle), writer Dave Bara is concluding the cyberpunk-y military sci-fi duology he initiated in 2021 with his novel Trinity. In the following email interview, he discusses what inspired and influenced this second half of the story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Into The Riverlands” Author Nghi Vo

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date October 27, 2022
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With Into The Riverlands (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), author Nghi Vo is continuing the Singing Hills Cycle of fantasy novellas she launched with 2020’s The Empress Of Salt And Fortune and continued later that year with When The Tiger Came Down The Mountain.

In the following email interview, she discusses where she gets the ideas for these stand-alone but connected stories, as well as her hopes for the Cycle going forward.

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Exclusive Interview: “Weird Fishes” Author Rae Mariz

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date October 26, 2022
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We always think of space as being the final frontier, but the Earth’s oceans are so unexplored that they may be an undiscovered country, teeming with new life, new civilizations. In the following email interview, author Rae Mariz discusses how building on the possibilities of this idea led her to write the new sci-fi / cli-fi novella Weird Fishes (paperback, Kindle).