With The Valkyrie Protocol (hardcover, Kindle) writers Jacob Holo and David Weber are continuing the time travel sci-fi adventure series they started earlier this year with The Gordian Protocol. In the following email interview about it, the two discuss what inspired and influenced both this series and this second installment, and why Thor star Chris Hemsworth would be perfect actor to play…someone if this series came to TV.
With Echoes Of Darkness (paperback, Kindle), writer Cheryl Campbell is continuing the post-apocalyptic military sci-fi trilogy Echoes that she started last year with Echoes Of War. In the following email interview, Campbell discusses what inspired and influenced this middle book of three.
As Lord Acton so smartly said, “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” But what if that power is super? It’s what’s explored in Bob Proehl’s new sci-fi novel The Somebody People (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the companion in a duology with last year’s The Nobody People. In the following email interview, Proehl discusses what inspired and influenced this second half of the story.
Events in life don’t always have neat and tidy endings. So why do so many stories wrap up with a nice little bow? It’s a question Duncan Swan pondered while writing his dystopian, post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel Monstre. In the following email interview about the first volume of this two-part story, Monstre: Volume One (Kindle), he explains why, in this series, “happy outcomes aren’t guaranteed.”
In many noir science fiction stories, the “noir” part is largely limited to how the world is described. But in their noir sci-fi novel Second Chance Angel (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), co-authors Griffin Barber and Kacey Ezell are instead telling a noir story in a sci-fi world. In the following email interview about, Barber and Ezell discuss what inspired and influenced this dark tale.
If fiction is to be believed, cloning always goes badly. Always. But what if — and stay with me here — what if it didn’t? In the following email interview about her near-future science fiction novel The Sentient (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), writer Nadia Afifi explains how her novel takes a different approach to genetic photocopying.
Some people are inspired to write when their heart gets broken.
But in the following email interview with writer Karen Osborne about her sci-fi space opera novel Architects Of Memory (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — the first book in her Memory War duology — she says this story was inspired, in part, when her foot got broken.
As the current Chair of the British Science Fiction Association, you’d expect science fiction writer Allen Stroud to cite his fellow Brits when listing his influences. But in the following email interview about his sci-fi space opera novel Fearless (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), Stroud shockingly lists writers from, gasp, the colonies.
Usually when a science fiction story revolves around blood it’s because there’s cloning or some terrible disease or space vampires.
But in Chris Panatier’s medical sci-fi story The Phlebotomist (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), blood has become a way of separating and segregating people.
In the following email interview about it, Panatier discusses what inspired and influenced this rather relevant tale.