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Exclusive Interview: Astounding Writer Alec Nevala-Lee

For better or worse, the current state of science fiction owes a lot to the magazine Astounding Science Fiction, its editor John W. Campbell, and the iconic writers whose stories appeared in its pages. In the following email interview, writer Alec Nevala-Lee discusses Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, And The Golden Age of Science Fiction (hardcover, Kindle), his warts and all look back at this legendary sci-fi magazine and the people both in and behind its pages.

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Exclusive Interview: Dayfall Author Michael David Ares

 

Not getting enough sunlight can have adverse effects on a person’s psyche. It’s something writer Michael David Ares explores — and takes to the extreme — in his new dystopian thriller Dayfall (hardcover, Kindle). Though in talking to Ares about this sci-fi novel, he explained that the inspiration for his science fiction story wasn’t exposure to sunlight, but exposure to someone else’s classic tale.