In his 2022 hard science fiction novel Summer’s End, author John Van Stry introduced us to Dave Walker, who ends up on a space cargo ship in an attempt to better himself.
Now Dave is back in Sometimes In The Fall (paperback, Kindle), in which — as Van Stry explains in the following email interview — now has “a more ‘settled’ or perhaps at least ‘legitimate’ life.” Though clearly that won’t last since, well, otherwise there’d be no point to this second book.
In prepping questions for writer John Van Stry about his hard science fiction novel Summer’s End (paperback, Kindle), I had to fight the urge to make a joke about its title making it sound like a teenage sex comedy from the ’80s. And then, in his first answer, he had to go and say it’s about, “…a young man’s journey out into the world.” But don’t worry, sci-fi fans, as Van Stray goes on to say, Summer’s End is very much a space-bound action / adventure story.