While he’s best known for the books in his Chathrand Voyage Quartet [The Red Wolf Conspiracy, The Rats And The Ruling Sea, The River Of Shadows, and The Night Of The Swarm], fantasy writer Robert V.S. Redick is beginning a whole new saga with his latest novel, Master Assassins (hardcover, paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, he explains the origins of this new saga, and why it needed to be, well, a new saga.
For years, readers have debated which is better: science fiction or fantasy. It was even recently argued in the new (and good) short story collection, Robots Vs. Fairies. But in the following email interview with writer Tina LeCount Myers about her epic fantasy novel The Song Of All (hardcover, Kindle) — the first book in The Legacy Of The Heavens trilogy — she explains how her new tale actually grew out of a debate over what’s different about sci-fi and fantasy.
In the two novellas that begin Neon Yang’s Tensorate Series — The Black Tides Of Heaven (paperback, digital) and The Red Threads Of Fortune (paperback, digital) — we’re introduced to twins named Mokoya and Akeha. But while you might think one of the novellas is about Mokoya and the other is about Akeha, Yang explains in the following interview that not only are these books not so cut and dry, btu they’re actually rather different in approach and in terms of what part of the larger saga they’re presenting.
In the fantasy realm, it seems like most novels are set in medieval Europe-esque place (J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings), savage times (Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories), or the modern era (J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter). But for his new fantasy novel Soleri (hardcover, digital), writer Michael Johnston has chosen a different setting: Ancient Egypt. Though it talking to Johnston about this book, and the untitled series it begins, it seems he’d prefer Soleri not end up like Tolkien’s, Howard’s, or Rowling’s books as well.