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.
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.
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.
Usually when someone writes a novel involving a superhero, they’ve been influenced by the superheroes we all know and love: Superman, Spider-Man, and their super friends. Larger larger-than-life characters who use their superpowers for good.
But in the following email interview about his near-future science fiction superhero novel Checkmate (paperback, Kindle), author Ty Drago says his inspiration was not a powerful, larger-than-life hero with a big, cinematic history, but a smaller, more down-to-Earth character who predates them all.
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…
Given what’s going on with the Israel-Hamas War, and how some people have reacted to it, it would be understandable if the editor of a short story anthology by Palestinian writers said something about how their collection shows that Palestinians are people, too.
But in the following email interview about Thyme Travellers: An Anthology Of Palestinian Speculative Fiction (paperback, Kindle), editor Sonia Sulaiman says that while it features “…writers who identify as Palestinian in the diaspora,” she notes that, “…none of these stories are meant to ‘humanize’ us. We’re already human.”
They say the third time’s the charm.
But that isn’t the case for the characters in Rumor Has It (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the third book in author Cat Rambo’s Disco Space Opera series.
As Rambo explains in the following email interview about this hopepunk- and military fantasy-infused science fiction space opera story, “things there don’t go as smoothly as they hoped.”