With more than twenty books released over nearly thirty years, Catherine Asaro’s Saga Of The Skolian Empire series must seem rather intimidating for people just discovering this sci-fi saga.
But in the following email interview about the newest installment, The Down Deep (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), Asaro explains that this novel — which is the start of a new subseries called Dust Knights — also serves as a new entry point.
In most trilogies, the Big Bad is usually defeated in the third and final installment, while its impact is often left as an afterthought.
But in Megan E. O’Keefe’s The Devoured Worlds series, the central antagonist was [SPOILER ALERT] beaten in the second book, The Fractured Dark, which meant she could really delve into what happened next in the last book, The Bound Worlds (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, O’Keefe explains why she altered the trilogy formula, as well as what else inspired and influenced this horror- and dystopian-infused sci-fi space opera story.
Since 1923, the iconic science fiction / fantasy / horror magazine Weird Tales has presented stories that, as their own website puts it, are “so bizarre and far out, no one else would publish them.”
Well, now they’re doing the same thing with novels, starting with Jonathan Maberry’s deep space cosmic horror novel NecroTek (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Maberry discusses how this book came to be, what inspired and influenced it, as well as his plans for The NecroTek Series.
With Echo Of Worlds (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer M.R. Carey is concluding The Pandominion duology he started with last year’s Infinity Gate.
In the following email interview, Carey discusses what inspired this two-part story, why it’s only two books and not three or four or thirty-seven, and why they’re might soon be another story that’s part of this universe but not part of this series.
In Elaine Gallagher’s new novella Unexploded Remnants (paperback, Kindle), a woman who seems to have taken career advice from Indiana Jones and Lara Croft is hunting for treasure in a Star Wars-like galaxy.
But when asked in the following email interview if this is a science fiction space opera story or a cyberpunk sci-fi story, Gallagher went old school by calling it “…a planetary romance.”
If you’ve ever done it, you know: cat sitting for a friend is annoying. Stupid cats never stay still long enough for you to sit on them.
But for writer April McCloud, cat sitting for a friend wasn’t that bad, since it inspired her to write this new noir-ish cyberpunk sci-fi thriller novel The Switch (paperback, Kindle).
In the following email interview, she explains how that happened, as well as what else inspired and influenced this novel.
A lot of fictional characters can see the future. But in the case of Preble Jefferson, the main character of Alexander Boldizar’s sci-fi thriller The Man Who Saw Seconds (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), that future is only 5 seconds away.
In the following email interview, Boldizar talks about how this novel was inspired and influenced by a lucid dream, Philip K. Dick, and a bear.
When writer Premee Mohamed released her climate science fiction novella The Annual Migration Of Clouds in 2021, she thought it was a one and done kind of thing.
But let this be a lesson to you, kids: Sometimes, if you ask nicely, good things will happen. Which is why fans of Mohamed’s Clouds are getting not one but two sequels to that story.
In the following email interview, Mohamed talks about the first one, We Speak Through The Mountain (paperback, Kindle), as well as the other, and the two other new books she’s recently released.