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Exclusive Interview: “Devil Dancers” Author Robert E. Waters

 

During World War II, a group of Navajo worked with the U.S. Marines as code breakers, carrying on a tradition started in the first World War by the Cherokee And Choctaw peoples. And it didn’t end there for Native Americans serving in the armed forces. Taking that idea even further forward (and fictional) we present Devil Dancers and Other Tales (paperback, Kindle), a collection of military science fiction stories by writer Robert E. Waters. In the following email interview, Waters talks about how this collection came together, as well as what inspired and influences these short sci-fi stories.

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Exclusive Interview: Spaceside Author Michael Mammay

 

When Michael Mammay wrote his first military sci-fi novel Planetside, he thought it was a stand-alone story set in a fictional universe rife with possibilities. But in the following email interview about his second book, Spaceside (paperback, Kindle), he says that, as it turns out, this second book ended up being more of a sequel than he anticipated.

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Exclusive Interview: “Cry Pilot” Author Joel Dane

 

With Cry Pilot (paperback, Kindle), writer “Joel Dane” (not his real name) is kicking off his military science fiction trilogy of the same name. But unlike some similar sci-fi series, fans of this threesome won’t have to wait years to find out how it ends. In the following email interview, Dane talks about what inspired this trilogy and its accelerated release schedule, as well as why he’s putting them out as Joel Dane instead of his real name.

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Exclusive Interview: “The First Protectors” Author Victor Godinez

 

In the following email interview, writer Victor Godinez discusses his new military sci-fi novel The First Protectors (paperback, Kindle), which he calls a more realistic look at what would happen if aliens invaded, and what we’d do in response.

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Exclusive Interview: “Exit Strategy” Author Martha Wells

 

By calling the fourth book Exit Strategy (hardcover, Kindle), you might think sci-fi writer Martha Wells is bring her series The Murderbot Diaries to a close. But as we discuss in the following email interview, while Exit Strategy is the end of this particular saga, it isn’t the last we’ll be hearing from our fair Murderbot.

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Exclusive Interview: Rebellion’s Fury Author Jay Allan

Mention the words “rebellion” to most science fiction fans, and they’ll immediately think of Star Wars. But in the following email interview with writer Jay Allan about his military sci-fi novel Rebellion’s Fury (paperback, Kindle) — the second book in his Flames Of Rebellion duology after 2017’s Flames Of Rebellion — the author of the Crimson Worlds books and the Blood On The Stars series admits that while he also thinks of those movies, these novels were also inspired by real-life rebels.