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Exclusive Interview: “When We Were Real” Author Daryl Gregory

 

There are people who are convinced that we’re all living in a computer simulation. And others who just wish it was true because they’d like to leave now, please.

But in Daryl Gregory humorous cyberpunk science fiction novel When We Were Real (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), people know they live in a computer simulation…and not a good one, either. Which is why two friends are taking a bus trip to see the glitches.

Well, that’s not the only reason.

In the following email interview, Gregory discusses what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story, including how he decided on the specifics of the sim.

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Exclusive Interview: “Two Truths And A Lie” Author Cory O’Brien

 

You never know when inspiration may strike, or what may strike it.

Take Cory O’Brien’s new cyberpunk noir science fiction mystery novel Two Truths And A Lie (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), which, he explains in the following email interview, was inspired by a costly art project.

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“Mullet MadJack” Review

 

While some of mobile gaming’s less appealing aspects have been carried over to console and PC games — we’re looking at you, loot boxes — one that hasn’t that often, but should, is the idea that it’s okay to have a game you only play in short, quick bursts.

But that’s exactly where we find Mullet MadJack (Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC), an over-the-top, cyberpunk sci-fi arcade first-person shooter on a timer that can be a bit much if played for too long, but is ridiculous fun in small bits. 

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Exclusive Interview: “The Adjudicator” Author Susan Daitch

Susan Daitch The Adjudicator

 

While gene editing could have benefits for humanity, it’s a pipe dream to think it will only be used beneficially.

But as we’ve learned from, well, so many things, what works badly in real life can often work well in fiction.

In Susan Daitch’s biopunk / futuristic steampunk science fiction novel, The Adjudicator (paperback, Kindle), she presents a world in which — as she explains in the following email interview — eugenics have run amok.

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Exclusive Interview: “Hammajang Luck” Author Makana Yamamoto

 

You know what I hate? When you finally get released from prison, but the person waiting for you is the one who double-crossed you. And it’s not like you can avoid them, since you’re on a space station. In the future. Where are you going to go? McDonalds!?!

But as so often the case, annoying situations in real life make for interesting ones in fiction. Which is why I wanted to do the following email interview with author Makana Yamamoto about their noir sci-fi crime story / cyberpunk lesbian space heist novel Hammajang Luck (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

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Exclusive Interview: “Ashme’s Song” Author Brad C. Anderson

 

Not every moral question has a right answer. Or no wrong one.

Take the question that inspired author Brad C. Anderson to write his new novel, Ashme’s Song (paperback, Kindle): “Is a hero someone who dies for their country or someone who gathers their family and gets them someplace safe?”

In the following email interview, Anderson talks about how that question inspired this story, which combines elements of science fiction, cyberpunk, political thrillers, and space opera into what he calls “spacethrillerpunk.”

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Exclusive Interview: “The Fortunate Fall” Author Cameron Reed

 

When we talk about iconic cyberpunk stories, we usually mention Blade Runner, The Matrix, and the novels of William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, and Neal Stephenson.

But we should also talk about Cameron Reed’s The Fortunate Fall, which took what Gibson et al. did and took the genre in a unique direction.

And maybe now we will, since Tor Books are releasing A Tor Essentials version of The Fortunate Fall (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), which augments the 1996 novel with a new intro by sci-fi writer Jo Walton [Tooth And Claw].

In the following email interview, Reed discusses what originally influenced this story, as well as why the main character has an implanted camera as opposed to just some snazzy video glasses.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Switch” Author April McCloud

 

If you’ve ever done it, you know: cat sitting for a friend is annoying. Stupid cats never stay still long enough for you to sit on them.

But for writer April McCloud, cat sitting for a friend wasn’t that bad, since it inspired her to write this new noir-ish cyberpunk sci-fi thriller novel The Switch (paperback, Kindle).

In the following email interview, she explains how that happened, as well as what else inspired and influenced this novel.

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Exclusive Interview: “SIN:THETICA” Author Keith Anthony Baird

 

While virtual reality doesn’t count as reality, yet, it someday might.

Which brings me to Keith Anthony Baird’s new dystopian / cyberpunk science fiction / urban fantasy novella SIN:THETICA (paperback, Kindle), in which a bounty hunter has to hunt his bounty in VR.

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

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