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.
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.
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.