In his novels Mickey7, Antimatter Blues, and Mal Goes To War, author Edward Ashton mixed science fiction with a bit of situational (and slightly surrealistic) humor.
But things seem like they’re getting a lot stranger, spacier, and snail-like in his new one, The Fourth Consort (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook)
In the following email interview, Aston talks about what inspired and influenced this humorous sci-fi space opera novel.
When we think of artificial intelligence, we usually expect it to be, well, intelligent.
But in his new “sci-fi that’s a bit cyberpunky” novel Mal Goes To War (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Edward Ashton gives us an AI who, well, let’s just say he’s perfectly capable of making bad decisions.
In the following email interview about Mal, Ashton talks intelligently about what inspired and influenced this smart story.
In the darkly humorous cyberpunk sci-fi novel Mickey7, worker’s comp isn’t a thing…and for a rather unfortunate reason.
But job security must be because that story’s titular worker is back for, well, more work.
In the following email interview, author Edward Ashton discusses what inspired and influenced the sequel, Antimatter Blues (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).