K.B. Wagers’ NeoG novels have all been military science fiction stories.
But as they explain in the following email interview about the fourth installment, And The Mighty Will Fall (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), it’s not really the fourth in a series, isn’t just military sci-fi, and while the title implies some finality, there could be more adventures for the crew of Zuma’s Ghost.
It’s been said that an army travels on their stomach.
But in his new military sci-fi novel Shrouded Loyalties (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Reese Hogan gives us an army that travels on their stomach…through a parallel dimension infested with monsters.
In the following email interview, Hogan discusses what inspired and influenced this story.
Science fiction has often served as a vehicle to explore aspects of the human condition. Including ones that are not comfortable to look at.
Which is where we find Iraq War veteran turned author Richard Fox, who, in the following email interview about his military sci-fi space opera novel Men Of Bretton (hardcover, Kindle), says he, “…wanted to write a series that shows how soldiers change during the course of a war and how hard it can be to get home.”
When people start naming names in the genre of military science fiction, they naturally name Starship Troopers author Robert A. Heinlein, Aliens writer / director James Cameron, Lois McMaster Bujold, author of the The Vorkosigan Saga series.
But they also often mention Honor Harrington, the central character in David Weber’s Honorverse series, which, over the course of 30+ years, has encompassed numerous novels, novellas, and short stories.
The latest of which (sort of) is 1993’s Honor Of The Queen, the second Honorverse novel, which has just been rereleased as a trade paperback as part of Baen Book’s ongoing reissue series.
In the following email interview, Weber looks back on this early adventure for Honor.
In 2006, author David Weber published a revised and expanded version of his 1992 military science fiction novel Path Of The Fury, which he retitled In Fury Born.
Well, now he’s adding more to the story with the Ascent To Empire novels, a prequel series he’s co-writing with fellow sci-fi author Richard Fox.
In the following email interview, Weber and Fox talk about the newly released second installment of the Ascent To Empire series, Rebel (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), as well as the first, Governor, which has also just come out in trade paperback.
Most of the time when someone says “suggestions welcome,” they don’t mean it; they’re just being nice.
But apparently the good people at Baen Books are open to your ideas…sort of.
You see, when someone recently suggested they reprint an out-of-print anthology of science fiction short stories about power armor, they decided to instead put together one of their own.
In the following email interview, co-editor David Afsharirad discusses Tomorrow’s Troopers (paperback, Kindle), which collects classic sci-fi and military sci-fi power armor stories by Brandon Sanderson and Ethan Skarstedt, Joe Haldeman, and Harry Harrison, among others, including how he and co-editor Hank Davis (who had to bow out of this interview because of computer problems) picked what stories to include, what subgenres are represented…and whether the person whose suggestion inspired this book got a free copy.
In the following email interview about his military science fiction novel Rogue Sequence (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), author Zac Topping talks about the military and sci-fi stories that inspired and influenced this story…before adding that, “it’s probably about as ‘military’ as the Mission: Impossible franchise.”
Rage is a strong emotion. And it can be a powerful motivator.
Just ask A.D. Sui, who, in the following email interview about her new “anti-military and anti-empire sci-fi” novella (paperback, Kindle) says that it was inspired by, “Rage, mostly rage. We don’t talk enough about disabled rage and how disabled people can often feel like some version of their future was taken away from them following injury.”
With four previous novels based on the Halo games under her belt, it’s not surprising that writer Kelly Gay’s newest, Halo: Epitaph (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), would connect to the other novels she’s written about the titular sci-fi shooter series.
But as she explains in the following email interview, this installment is actually more connected to someone else’s Halo novels than her own.