With the word “Vulcan” in the title, and a circular upright structure on the cover, you might think Robert Mitchell Evans’ Vulcan’s Forge (hardcover, Kindle) is going to be a sci-fi space opera story about some rather logical people who teleport to different worlds. But as he explains in the following email, not only is this sci-fi novel not a space opera story, and not connected to Star Trek or Stargate, but it actually has more in common with some dark detective novels and movies.