In our previous interview about his 2018 novel Ten Thousand Thunders, writer Brian Trent mentioned how history — sparked by a trip to New York’s Metropolitan Museum Of Art — prompted him to write that far-future sci-fi thriller. Now Trent, history, and the fictional universe of Thunders are all back for the military sci-fi novel Redspace Rising (hardcover, paperback, Kindle). But as he explains in the following email interview about it, while Rising follows Thunders, it’s not a sequel.