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Exclusive Interview: Star Trek Prey: Book One: Hell’s Heart Author John Jackson Miller

As Game Of Thrones fans will tell you, waiting for the next book in a series can be quite frustrating. But in talking to writer John Jackson Miller, whose trilogy of Star Trek novels are coming just a month apart — Star Trek Prey: Book One: Hell’s Heart (paperback, digital) is out now; Star Trek Prey: Book Two: The Jackal’s Trick (paperback, digital) is out October 25th; and Star Trek Prey: Book Three: The Hall Of Heroes (paperback, digital) will be available November 29th — it seems having these three novel come in rapid succession cut some of the frustration in writing such an epic sci-fi saga as well.

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Exclusive Interview: “Halo Fractures” Authors Matt Forbeck, Christie Golden, And Troy Denning

 

With the strategy game Halo Wars 2 (Xbox One, PC) not coming out until February 21st of 2017, fans of the Halo games are undoubtedly going through withdrawal. Thankfully, Gallery Book has a fix in the form of Halo Fractures (paperback, digital), a collection of short stories from such sci-fi writers as John Jackson Miller (Star Wars: A New Dawn), such Halo novelists as Tobias Buckell (Halo: The Cole Protocol), and even such Halo game writers as Brian Reed, who co-wrote Halo 4 and was the lead writer on Halo 5: Guardians, and also penned the comic books Halo: Initiation, Halo: Escalation, and Halo: Fall Of Reach, the graphic novel adaptation of Eric Nyland’s prequel novel, Halo: The Fall Of Reach.

To find out more about the stories in Halo Fractures, I posed (mostly) the same questions to three of the books contributors: Matt Forbeck, who wrote the novel Halo: New Blood; Halo: Last Light writer Troy Denning; and Christie Golden, who’s new to the Halo cannon, but has written novels based on the StarCraft games as well as the worlds of Star Wars and Star Trek.

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Exclusive Interview: The Last Days Of Jack Sparks Author Jason Arnopp

With such found footage horror movies as The Blair Witch Project and the Paranormal Activity series still scaring the crap out of people, you’d expect someone would apply this motif to other things. But while we wait for someone to make a found footage horror video game or a found footage horror three-layer cake with sprinkles, we can get spooked in literary form with the faux memoir The Last Days Of Jack Sparks (hardcover, digital), a found “footage” fright-fest novel from writer Jason Arnopp.

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Exclusive Interview: In The Mountains Of Madness Author W. Scott Poole

Thanks to such iconic horror stores as “The Call Of Cthulhu,” “At The Mountains Of Madness,” “The Dunwich Horror,” and more, writer H.P. Lovecraft has become one of the more inventive and influential writers of the 20th century…and the 21st. Just as such disciples as Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo Del Toro, Metallca’s James Hetfield, or his fellow writers Stephen King, Clive Barker, Mike Mignola, and Neil Gaiman. But what kind of man comes up with such twisted tales? This is the subject of W. Scott Poole‘s In The Mountains Of Madness: The Life And Extraordinary Afterlife Of H.P. Lovecraft (paperback, digital). Though in talking to Poole about the book, he revealed that this isn’t a conventional literary biography.

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Exclusive Interview: The Tetris Effect Author Dan Ackerman

At first, the video game Tetris seems simple enough. When you really get into, though, you realize there’s a complexity to it that may be subtle, but it’s also substantial. Not surprisingly, the story of how Tetris came to be also seems simple enough at first, but not when you real dig in. It’s a story told in the new book The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized The World (hardcover, digital), written by CNET editor Dan Ackerman (who, I should point out, is someone I’ve known for years from going to video game press events). But in talking to him about his book, it seems it wasn’t just a love of the game that made him want to write something this substantial about Tetris.

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Exclusive Interview: Destiny Rise Of Iron Community Manager DeeJ

Since its release in 2014, the sci-fi first-person shooter Destiny has constantly evolved, adding new missions and multiplayer modes, and expanding its compelling story even further. With the fourth expansion, Rise Of Iron due out September 20th — both as a download (PlayStation 4, Xbox One) and as part of Destiny The Collection (PlayStation 4, Xbox One) with the rest of the game — I asked Bungie’s Community Manager Deej to give me the lowdown on what this add-on actually adds.

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Exclusive Interview: A Life Twice Given Author David Daniel

Though I’ve never had children, even I know that the worst thing imaginable would be for a parent to outlive their kid. But it is out of great tragedy that we sometimes get great art. In his new science fiction novel A Life Twice Given (paperback, digital), writer David Daniel has tried to deal with the death of his son by imagining what he, as a father, might’ve done if human cloning was a reality. But in talking to Daniel about the book, he revealed that immortalizing his son in a science fiction novel isn’t the only way he’s dealing with this immense loss.

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Exclusive Interview: The Dragon Lords: Fools Gold Author Jon Hollins

 

While such fantasy novels as The Lord Of The Rings and George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Fire And Ice series take the genre seriously, there’s no reason you can’t have a little fun with your fantasy. Consider The Dragon Lords: Fools Gold (paperback, digital), the new novel by Jon Hollins (who’s also known as Jonathan Wood, the author of the “Hero” series: No Hero, Yesterday’s Hero, Anti-Hero, and Broken Hero). Though set in a realm of dungeons and dragons, the book is actually a lighthearted heist tale that reads like something the Monty Python guys might’ve written if they were trying to write a Holy Grail sequel after watching Oceans 11, 12, and 13.

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Exclusive Interview: Welcome To Deadland Author Zac Tyler Linville

In his debut novel Welcome To Deadland (hardcover, digital), writer Zac Tyler Linville sets a coming of age story in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. But while his story is infested with the infected, in talking to Linville about his book — which was co-published by The Nerdist and Inkshares after winning their first publishing contest — it’s clear, as he puts it, that Deadland is “a book with zombies, not a book about zombies.”

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