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Exclusive Interview: “Twilight Imperium: Twilight Wars: Empire Burning” Author Robbie MacNiven

 

The science fiction space opera board game Twilight Imperium has already inspired a trio of novels (Tim Pratt’s The Fractured Void, The Necropolis Empire, and The Veiled Masters), as well as a short story collection (The Stars Beyond).

But now the game, and people who like to read stories based on it, are getting some of the backstory of this sci-fi universe through a new trilogy by author Robbie MacNiven called The Twilight Wars.

In the following email interview, MacNiven discusses the second book in the series, Twilight Imperium: Twilight Wars: Empire Burning (paperback, Kindle), including how it was influenced by a trio of space-y cartoons.

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Exclusive Interview: “Twilight Imperium: Twilight Wars: Empire Falling” Author Robbie MacNiven

 

While it’s already pretty epic, author Robbie MacNiven is pushing the sci-fi space opera board game Twilight Imperium into even bigger spaces with Twilight Imperium: Twilight Wars: Empire Falling (paperback, audiobook, Kindle), the first book in a new prequel trilogy. In the following email interview, MacNiven discusses what inspired and influenced this first part of the story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Descent: Legends Of The Dark: Waiqar” Author Robbie MacNiven

 

With the novel Waiqar (paperback, Kindle), writer Robbie MacNiven is taking his fourth trip to the realm of the fantasy co-op dungeon-crawling board game Descent. In the following email interview, MacNiven discusses how this tale explores the life and times of the game’s Great Necromancer.

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Exclusive Interview: “Twilight Imperium: The Stars Beyond” Editor Charlotte Llewelyn-Wells

 

Like any good sci-fi space opera universe, the setting of the strategy board game Twilight Imperium has a lot of different kinds of aliens, and is thus a good place to set a lot of different stories.

Which is what editor Charlotte Llewelyn-Wells has done in the novelette collection Twilight Imperium: The Stars Beyond (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Llewelyn-Wells discusses what went into assembling this anthology.

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Exclusive Interview: “Descent: The Gates Of Thelgrim” Author Robbie MacNiven

 

With his high fantasy novel Descent: Legends Of The Dark: The Gates Of Thelgrim (paperback, Kindle), writer Robbie MacNiven is returning to the realm of Terrinoth for his second epic fantasy novel based on the board game Descent: Legends Of The Dark. In the following email interview, he explains where he got the idea for this second trip, as well as his plans for a third.