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Exclusive Interview: “Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy And Science Fiction: Volume Two” Editor Stephen Kotowych

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 15, 2024
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When we think of the best things to come out of Canada, we all think of maple syrup, moose, health care, Rush, and all the best Ryans (sorry, Seacrest).

But those looking for the best science fiction and fantasy stories now have two options: last year’s Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy And Science Fiction: Volume One and the new sequel, Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy And Science Fiction: Volume Two (paperback, Kindle).

In the following email interview, Volume Two (and Volume One) editor Stephen Kotowych talks about what went into assembling this new anthology.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Sun Runners” Author James Bow

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 14, 2024
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While some authors are hesitant to admit their influences, others understand that no one lives in a vacuum, and that it’s okay to admit that yes, you were shaped by those who came before you.

And then there’s author James Bow who, in the following email interview, not only says what authors had an influence on his young adult sci-fi The Sun Runners (paperback, Kindle), but he also notes that he paid homage to one of them in a rather clever way.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Shiver Tree” Author Holly Searcy

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 13, 2024
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It’s hardly surprising that many fantasy writers have played Dungeons & Dragons. Or that D&D has influenced their fantasy stories.

But in the following email interview with author Holly Searcy, she talks about how her high fantasy novel The Shiver Tree (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) wasn’t just written by a D&D player who was influenced by the role-playing adventure game. It actually started out as the backstory to her D&D character.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Legacy Of Arniston House” Author T.L. Huchu

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 12, 2024
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When fantasy writers talk about the things that influenced their work, they often mention other fantasy stories: The Lord Of The Rings, Game Of Thrones, Harry Potter, and so on.

But in the following email interview about The Legacy Of Arniston House (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the fourth book in his urban fantasy series Edinburgh Nights, author T.L. Huchu says this novel also takes influence from a video game-inspired TV show of the bloody battle persuasion.

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Exclusive Interview: “Suitor Armor, Volume 1” Author / Artist Purpah

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 11, 2024
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Originally written as an online comic, Purpah’s Suitor Armor is jumping to print with a collection called Suitor Armor, Volume 1 (hardcover, paperback).

In the following email interview, the author and artist talks about what originally inspired this fantasy with romance tale, as well as their plans for Volume 2.

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Exclusive Interview: “Shrouded Loyalties” Author Reese Hogan

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 10, 2024
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It’s been said that an army travels on their stomach.

But in his new military sci-fi novel Shrouded Loyalties (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Reese Hogan gives us an army that travels on their stomach…through a parallel dimension infested with monsters.

In the following email interview, Hogan discusses what inspired and influenced this story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Murder Town” Author Shelley Burr

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 8, 2024
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It used to be that if someone was murdered in a house, no one would want to live there. And for some people, that’s still true.

But for others, being the site of a gruesome murder is a selling point. Or at least a reason to attend the open house.

It’s the decision to embrace or deny its murderous past that the town on Rainier has to grapple with in author Shelley Burr’s noir murder mystery thriller Murder Town (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). And a decision that the residents have to grapple with further when someone turns up dead.

In the following email interview, Burr discusses what inspired and influenced this murderous story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Last Train Outta Kepler-283c” Editor David Boop

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 7, 2024
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We all know the line: “Space…the final frontier.” But with all due respect to Kirk and crew, Star Trek wasn’t about people colonizing other worlds. Sure, they sometimes looked in on them, dropped off supplies, but it was never about how those colonizers got to their new homes.

But that is what you get in the sci-fi space Western short story anthology Last Train Outta Kepler-283c (paperback, Kindle), which, according to editor David Book, features stories “…about colonists, from miners to law keepers to gunslingers, and everything in between.”

In the following email interview, Boop explains how this book and this series — which also includes 2021’s Gunfight On Europa Station and 2023’s High Noon On Proxima B — came to be, and how he finds the stories to fill them.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Sum Of All Things” Author Seb Doubinsky

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 6, 2024
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Over the last fifteen years, author Seb Doubinsky has written ten stand-alone novels in his dystopian noir and more series, the City-States Cycle, including the newest, the sci-fi and espionage-infused The Sum Of All Things (paperback, Kindle).

But while he went into writing The Sum thinking it would also be the end of the story, it seems this series has different ideas.

In the following email interview, Doubinsky talks about why The Sum was going to be the end of the City-States Cycle, why it’s not, and how thinking it would be influenced how he wrote it.