Actions have consequences. And not always ones that can be foreseen. Take Brian Nelson’s military sci-fi technothriller trilogy The Course Of Empire. In the following email interview, Nelson explains how actions in the first book, The Last Sword Maker (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), come back to bite people in the ass in the newly released second one, Five Tribes (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
With Halo: Shadows Of Reach (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), author Troy Denning continues to be the writer with the most stories set in the universe of Master Chief, The Covenant, and the other denizens of this sci-fi first-person shooter series. In the following email interview, Denning discusses how this military science fiction story connects to the games and the other Halo novels, his and others, as well as why he enjoys visiting this turbulent universe of someone else’s creation so much.
With Echoes Of Darkness (paperback, Kindle), writer Cheryl Campbell is continuing the post-apocalyptic military sci-fi trilogy Echoes that she started last year with Echoes Of War. In the following email interview, Campbell discusses what inspired and influenced this middle book of three.
As the current Chair of the British Science Fiction Association, you’d expect science fiction writer Allen Stroud to cite his fellow Brits when listing his influences. But in the following email interview about his sci-fi space opera novel Fearless (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), Stroud shockingly lists writers from, gasp, the colonies.
With Days Of Burning, Days Of Wrath (hardcover, Kindle) former military man turned military sci-fi author Tom Kratman is presenting the eighth and latest installment in his Carrera series. In the following email interview, he provides a primer on this ongoing series, how this new novel fits into it, and how it was influenced by another military writer…just not in the way you might think.
With Ballistic (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), iconic science fiction writer Marko Kloos is continuing the military sci-fi space opera saga The Palladium Wars that he began last year with Aftershocks. In the following email interview, he discusses what inspired and influenced this second installment, as well as his plans for this series going forward.
Last year, Jason M. Hough’s military sci-fi novel Gears Of War: Ascendance filled in the gap between the end of the 2016 video game Gears Of War 4 and its 2019 sequel, Gears 5. Now, with Gears Of War: Bloodlines (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), Hough is not only filling in a gap within Gears 5 but — as he explains in the following email interview about it — the time before the newest installment, Gears Tactics.
In military sci-fi novels, we either get stories of war in space or stories about the people about to go to war in space. But in his new military sci-fi novel Sixteenth Watch (paperback, Kindle), writer and Coast Guard Lieutenant Myke Cole is presenting a very different perspective. And not just by focusing on the Coast Guard. In the following email interview, Myke explains what inspired and influenced this story, as well as why you might not want to ask him about a certain real-life space military organization.
For the last four years, sci-fi writer K.B. Wagers has been mired in war. First, with their space opera trilogy The Indranan War, and then with the still in-progress sequel series, The Farian War. But now they’re taking a detour with A Pale Light In The Black (hardcover, Kindle), the first book in an ongoing series of stand-alone military sci-fi novels.
In the following email interview, they explain what inspired and influenced the first of what they call “A NeoG Novel,” as well as their plans for this series moving forward.