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Exclusive Interview: “Disquiet Gods” Author Christopher Ruocchio

 

The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer once said something to the effect of “all good things must end.” And while the exact wording of what he said has been lost to time, it doesn’t make the sentiment any less true.

Which brings me to Disquiet Gods (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) the sixth and penultimate novel in Christopher Ruocchio’s Sun Eater series.

Though as Ruocchio explains in the following email interview, Disquiet Gods isn’t actually as close to the end of this epic science fiction space fantasy series as you might think from a penultimate entry.

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Exclusive Interview: “Worlds Long Lost” Co-Editors Christopher Ruocchio & Sean C.W. Korsgaard

 

We’ve all heard the cliché: “You can’t judge a book by its cover.” But in the following email interview with Christopher Ruocchio and Sean C.W. Korsgaard, co-editors of the sci-fi short story anthology Worlds Long Lost (paperback, Kindle), the former inadvertently admits you kind of can with this book, since it’s what inspired this collection.

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Exclusive Interview: “Ashes Of Man” Author Christopher Ruocchio

 

Four years after he launched his Sun Eater series of epic space fantasy novels with 2018’s Empire Of Silence, writer Christopher Ruocchio is preparing to bring it to a close with the penultimate installment, Ashes Of Man (hardcover, Kindle). In the following email interview, the ever prolific Ruocchio discusses this second-to-last novel, as well as why it won’t be the second-to-last book.

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Exclusive Interview: “Time Troopers” Co-Editor Christopher Ruocchio

 

While part of me wishes time travel was physically possible — if only so I could see Led Zeppelin at The Whiskey in January of 1969 — it’s probably best that it isn’t because you know not everyone would use it to see rock concerts they were too young to go to at the time. Some would weaponize it.

But while doing this may not be possible (thank god), it is still fun to read about. Say, in an anthology of time travel stories.

In the following email interview, writer and editor Christopher Ruocchio discusses Time Troopers (paperback, Kindle), a new collection of time travel-centric military sci-fi short stories he co-edited with frequent collaborator Hank Davis.

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Exclusive Interview: “Kingdoms Of Death” Author Christopher Ruocchio

 

With Kingdoms Of Death (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Christopher Ruocchio is presenting the fourth novel in his space fantasy series, The Sun Eater saga.

But as he explains in the following email interview, this series just got longer, sort of, and is all the better for it.

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Exclusive Interview: “Sword & Planet” Editor Christopher Ruocchio

 

While the Dune novels and Star Wars saga are clearly as entrenched in the genres of science fiction and space opera as the Foundation novels and the Star Trek saga, there are also fantastical and spiritual elements to those former stories that place them in the realm known as space fantasy or science fantasy.

It’s also where you’ll find the stories collected in a new anthology called Sword & Planet (paperback, Kindle).

In the following email interview, S&P editor Christopher Ruocchio discusses how this collection came together.

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Exclusive Interview: “World Breakers” Co-Editor Christopher Ruocchio

 

While the future may be female, the future is also going to be intelligent and artificial. And some of that A.I. is going to be soldiers.

In the following email interview, writer and editor Christopher Ruocchio discusses World Breakers (paperback, Kindle), a new military sci-fi anthology about A.I. war machines that he not only contributed to but also co-edited with fellow contributor Tony Daniel.

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Exclusive Interview: “Tales Of The Sun Eater, Vol. 1” Author Christopher Ruocchio

 

As if writing three novels that clock in at more than 600 to 700 — pages each wasn’t enough, with a 170-page novella to boot, science fantasy writer Christopher Ruocchio has decided to further expand his already epic Sun Eater series with a plethora of short stories.

In the following email interview, Ruocchio discusses the first collection of them, Tales Of The Sun Eater, Vol. 1 (Kindle), as well as his plans for more volumes, a print collection, and the next lengthy novel.

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Exclusive Interview: “Demon In White” Author Christopher Ruocchio

 

In Empire Of Silence and Howling Dark, the first two books of The Sun Eater series, writer Christopher Ruocchio presented a sci-fi space opera story that was like if Frank Herbert had returned the favor and written a Dune sequel influenced by Star Wars.

In the following email interview, Ruocchio discusses Demon In White (hardcover, Kindle), the third book in The Sun Eater saga, as well as the lite novel The Lesser Devil (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), a side story to this series.