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Exclusive Interview: “Driving The Deep” Author Suzanne Palmer

 

Last year, writer Suzanne Palmer introduced us to space ship repossession specialist Fergus Ferguson in her cheeky sci-fi caper novel, Finder. Well, as they say, you can’t keep a good man down…or a man who tries really, really hard to be good. And so we have Driving The Deep (hardcover, audiobookKindle), the second in Palmer’s The Finder Chronicles. In the following email interview, Palmer discusses what inspired and influenced this second story, as well as her plans for this series going forward.

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Exclusive Interview: “Sleeping Giants” Author Sylvain Neuvel

 

In his debut novel Sleeping Giants (hardcover, digital), writer Sylvain Neuvel uses interview transcripts and journal entries to tell the story of how a young girl from South Dakota found an enormous metal hand, and then grew up to be a scientist searching for the rest of the giant robot. Though in talking to him about the book, it’s clear that this story may be larger than one young girl and one big robot.

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Exclusive Interview: “Star Trek: The Original Series: The Latter Fire” Author James Swallow

While the original mission of the Enterprise only made it through three of its planned five year schedule, it’s more than made up for it thanks to numerous Star Trek novels (and comics, and games…). The latest of which is James Swallow’s Star Trek The Original Series The Latter Fire (paperback, digital), which presents yet another adventure for Kirk, Spock, and their coworkers. Though in talking to Swallow about this book, it’s interesting to learn that Star Trek novels come with their own version of The Prime Directive.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Martian” Author Andy Weir

 

For many writers, penning a story about an astronaut stranded on Mars would ultimately lead to some such sci-fi elements as little green men or an ancient civilization destroyed by some unknown danger.

But in his first novel, The Martian (paperback, Kindle), Andy Weir is taking a different approach; a more realistic one that eschews sci-fi tropes, and makes this more of a thriller and a disaster movie in book form.