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Exclusive Interview: “Crisis At Proxima” Co-Author Les Johnson

 

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.

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Exclusive Interview: “Men Of Bretton” Author Richard Fox

 

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.”

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Exclusive Interview: “Honor Of The Queen” Author David Weber

 

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.

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Exclusive Interview: “Dark Space” Co-Authors Rob Hart & Alex Segura

 

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.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Last Gifts Of The Universe” Author Riley August

 

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.

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Exclusive Interview: “Intersecting Eternity” Author Margaret A. Babcock

 

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.

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Exclusive Interview: “On Vicious Worlds” Author Bethany Jacobs

 

Like many people who’ve written science fiction novels, author Bethany Jacobs cites other writers of sci-fi as influences in the following email interview about her space opera / space fantasy novel On Vicious Worlds (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), which is the second book of The Kingdom Trilogy after 2023’s These Burning Stars.

But unlike her fellow science fiction writers, Jacobs also cites a certain cult classic fantasy TV show as being just as big an influence on this saga.

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Exclusive Interview: “Rebel” Co-Authors David Weber & Richard Fox

In 2006, author David Weber published a revised and expanded version of his 1992 military science fiction novel Path Of The Fury, which he retitled In Fury Born.

Well, now he’s adding more to the story with the Ascent To Empire novels, a prequel series he’s co-writing with fellow sci-fi author Richard Fox.

In the following email interview, Weber and Fox talk about the newly released second installment of the Ascent To Empire series, Rebel (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), as well as the first, Governor, which has also just come out in trade paperback.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Armageddon Protocol” Author Dan Moren

 

With The Armageddon Protocol (paperback, Kindle), author Dan Moren is presenting the final book in The Galactic Cold War series.

Though as he explains in the following email interview about this sci-fi space opera spy novel, “final” might not be the right word…