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.