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Exclusive Interview: “Moths” Author Jane Hennigan

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date April 10, 2023
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Usually, the only time we think a moth is dangerous is when we buy a new sweater. Or we have that dream in which we’re Godzilla. But in Jane Hennigan’s self-published 2021 dystopian post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel Moths, moths aren’t just a threat to comfy clothing and giant lizards, they’re a threat to men everywhere. With a new and slightly reworked version of Moths being released in paperback, Kindle, audiobook, I spoke with Hennigan about what originally inspired and influenced this novel, as well as her plans to continue this story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Hel’s Eight” Author Stark Holborn

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date March 29, 2023
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Guilt can be a heavy burden. It’s something the character Ten had to deal with in Stark Holborn’s 2021 science fiction space opera Western Ten Low, and something she’s still dealing with in the dystopian sci-fi sequel, Hel’s Eight (paperback, Kindle). And in the following email interview, Holborn has to deal with the burden of my questions about influences and inspiration and connection.

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Exclusive Interview: “Seeds For The Swarm” Author Sim Kern

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 28, 2023
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Like a lot of people (but not nearly enough) writer Sim Kern is worried about our planet’s climate. And like a lot of people who are teachers (but not nearly enough of other people) Kern is trying to effect meaningful change by educating their students about this issue. Though they’re doing it not just through lectures and dioramas, but with Seeds For The Swam (paperback, Kindle), a young adult cli-fi sci-fi novel they hope students of all ages will find enlightening and entertaining.

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Exclusive Interview: “Burrowed” Author Mary Baader Kaley

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date January 9, 2023
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Any new novel written about a plague or pandemic will inevitably be assumed to be about Covid. But in the following email interview about her post-apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi novel Borrowed (paperback, Kindle), Kaley notes that hers was actually inspired by previous pandemics.

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Exclusive Interview: “A Single Light” Author Tosca Lee

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date April 6, 2022
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Don’t you just hate it when you get tossed out of your doomsday cult only to have doomsday happen a few days later? We’ve all been there. And by “we,” I mean Wynter Roth, the main character of writer Tosca Lee’s medical thriller The Line Between. Sadly, Wynter’s life isn’t getting any better in the sequel, the dystopian, post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel A Single Light (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) that’s also the final book of this duology. In the following email interview, Lee discusses what inspired and influenced this second (not entirely implausible) installment.

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Exclusive Interview: “Death Fugue” Author Sheng Keyi

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 23, 2021
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Like such protests as the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Stonewall Riots of 1969, the violence inflicted during the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 continues to resonate, often in rather interesting ways. Which brings me to Sheng Keyi’s 2013 dystopian novel Death Fugue (paperback, Kindle), which is finally available in American bookstores in a new translation. In the following email interview, Keyi discusses how the Tiananmen Square event, and other things, inspired and influenced this story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Stolen Earth” Author J.T. Nicholas

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 5, 2021
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It’s scary to think that we could one day screw up the Earth so badly that we have to leave it. But like many terrible ideas, it only takes the right hands to turn it into a ripping read. Hands like those of writer J.T. Nicholas (if his excellent 2020 sci-fi novel Re-Coil is any indication). Which brings us to Stolen Earth (paperback, Kindle), his new dystopian post-apocalyptic sci-fi space opera novel in which humanity can’t even vacation on Earth, let alone live there. In the following email interview, Nicholas discusses what inspired and influenced this story.

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Exclusive Interview: “And What Can We Offer You Tonight” Author Premee Mohamed

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date August 30, 2021
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For some, social media is a way to stay connected to friends, family, and the world at large. For others, it’s the engine that feeds much of the hate and stupidity that’s ruining society.

But for writer Premee Mohamed, it was a place to find an image that inspired her new dystopian sci-fi novella And What Can We Offer You Tonight (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview about it, Mohamed not only explains how that happened, but what else influenced this story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Firebreak” Author Nicole Kornher-Stace

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date May 6, 2021
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As a confessed life-long gamer and hater of huge corporations, you’d think writer Nicole Kornher-Stance would be eager to mine these territories in her stories. But as she confesses in the following email interview about her dystopian sci-fi novel Firebreak (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), which does both, she admits that it actually made her more nervous than excited.