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Exclusive Interview: “Across An Ocean Of Stars” Author Robert E. Hampson

 

Zombie stories often take place in dark, foreboding places.

But in Robert E. Hampson’s new zombie novel Across An Ocean Of Stars (paperback, Kindle), which is the 14th novel in John Ringo’s ongoing (and often collaborative) Black Tide Rising series, he has the living impaired taking a vacation to Hawaii. And man, are the buffets plentiful.

In the following email interview, Hampson — who is a neuroscientist and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina — talks about what inspired and influenced this story, as well as how it connects to the other Black Tide Rising novels and stories.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Moon And The Desert” Author Robert E. Hampson

 

Like a lot of writers, Robert E. Hampson’s influences don’t start and stop with books; they include TV shows as well. As he explains in the following email interview, his new hard sci-fi novel The Moon And The Desert (paperback, Kindle) wasn’t just influenced by his fellow writers, but also by a classic (and expensive) show from the ’70s.