As anyone who was ever a kid on a playground can tell you, being able to call for a “do-over” would be as great in real life as it was in games of dodgeball.
Doubly so if the thing you’d get to do-over is the destruction of the Earth. Which is what happens, sort of, to Lieutenant Selene Genji of the Unified Fleet in Jack Campbell’s new time traveling science fiction space opera novel In Our Stars (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the first in a two-part series.
In the following email interview, Campbell discusses what inspired and influenced this sci-fi adventure story, as well as why it’s a two-parter.