K.B. Wagers’ NeoG novels have all been military science fiction stories.
But as they explain in the following email interview about the fourth installment, And The Mighty Will Fall (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), it’s not really the fourth in a series, isn’t just military sci-fi, and while the title implies some finality, there could be more adventures for the crew of Zuma’s Ghost.
While some authors are hesitant to admit their influences, others understand that no one lives in a vacuum, and that it’s okay to admit that yes, you were shaped by those who came before you.
And then there’s author James Bow who, in the following email interview, not only says what authors had an influence on his young adult sci-fi The Sun Runners (paperback, Kindle), but he also notes that he paid homage to one of them in a rather clever way.
It’s been said that an army travels on their stomach.
But in his new military sci-fi novel Shrouded Loyalties (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Reese Hogan gives us an army that travels on their stomach…through a parallel dimension infested with monsters.
In the following email interview, Hogan discusses what inspired and influenced this story.
With careers that have included stints working for and with NASA, it’s safe to assume that authors Les Johnson and Travis S. Taylor are no dummies.
Though you could probably also glean that from reading the novels they’ve written, most notably 2021’s hard sci-fi thriller Saving Proxima.
Now the duo have completed a sequel to that sci-fi story, Crisis At Proxima (hardcover, Kindle), which is the second book in a trilogy they call Orion’s Arm.
In the following email interview, Johnson — speaking for himself and Taylor — discusses what inspired and influenced this second story, including how they rectify conflicts between science fact and science fiction.
Science fiction has often served as a vehicle to explore aspects of the human condition. Including ones that are not comfortable to look at.
Which is where we find Iraq War veteran turned author Richard Fox, who, in the following email interview about his military sci-fi space opera novel Men Of Bretton (hardcover, Kindle), says he, “…wanted to write a series that shows how soldiers change during the course of a war and how hard it can be to get home.”
When people start naming names in the genre of military science fiction, they naturally name Starship Troopers author Robert A. Heinlein, Aliens writer / director James Cameron, Lois McMaster Bujold, author of the The Vorkosigan Saga series.
But they also often mention Honor Harrington, the central character in David Weber’s Honorverse series, which, over the course of 30+ years, has encompassed numerous novels, novellas, and short stories.
The latest of which (sort of) is 1993’s Honor Of The Queen, the second Honorverse novel, which has just been rereleased as a trade paperback as part of Baen Book’s ongoing reissue series.
In the following email interview, Weber looks back on this early adventure for Honor.
Having previously collaborated on a comic book as well as a novel in which characters from their individual novels work together, writers Rob Hart [Assassins Anonymous, The Warehouse] and Alex Segura [Secret Identity, Alter Ego] have teamed up again, this time on a sci-fi space opera spy novel called Dark Space (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Hart and Segura talk about what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story, as well as why they decided to write it together.
Some people look for meaning at the bottom of a bottle.
Others search for it while hiking; still others in the written word.
But in Riley August’s new science fiction novel The Last Gifts Of The Universe (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), Scout, their cat, and their brother see if they can find it while flying around the galaxy.
To explain why, and how, I’d ask you to consult the following email interview.
With Intersecting Eternity (paperback, Kindle), author Margaret A. Babcock is presenting a follow-up to her 2021 science fiction space opera novel Eden.2.
Except that, as she explains in the following email interview about Eternity, this novel is less a sequel and more like a chronologically distant relative.