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Exclusive Interview: “To Turn The Tide” Author S.M. Stirling

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date August 8, 2024
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Plenty of people have written stories in which someone tries to stop World War II by using a time machine.

But in his time travel sci-fi adventure novel To Turn The Tide (hardcover, Kindle), author S.M. Stirling is instead trying to stop World War III, and other terrible things…and thinks sending a college professor and some students back to the time of the Roman Empire is how to do it.

In the following email interview, Stirling talks about what inspired and influenced this novel, as well as his plans for further adventures in the To Make The Darkness Light series.

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Exclusive Interview: “Devil’s Gun” Author Cat Rambo

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date August 7, 2024
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There are a lot of things mercenaries can do when they retire: start their own private military companies; train other mercenaries; ride off into the sunset…

But in Cat Rambo’s sci-fi space opera novel You Sexy Thing, some retired mercs started their own restaurant…only to still get into trouble of the mercenary kind.

Now they’re getting into even more trouble in Devil’s Gun, the second book in Rambo’s Disco Space Opera series. With that book newly released in paperback — and a third, Rumor Has It, coming September 24th — I spoke to Rambo about what inspired and influenced this second story, and this series.

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Exclusive Interview: “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Pliable Truths” Author Dayton Ward

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date July 25, 2024
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While DC and Marvel did it first, Star Trek was an early pioneer when it came to having a shared universe. For instance, when Star Trek: Deep Space Nine launched in 1993, it did so with an appearance from Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Captain Picard, while the latter show’s Worf joined the former station’s staff in DS9‘s fourth season.

Now the connections between TNG and DS9 are being strengthened by Dayton Ward’s new Star Trek novel Star Trek: The Next Generation: Pliable Truths (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

In the following email interview, Ward explains how this crossover novel came together, as well as why it doesn’t also connect with a certain Captain’s late-in-life adventures.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Down Deep” Author Catherine Asaro

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date July 10, 2024
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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.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Failures” Author Benjamin Liar

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date July 3, 2024
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Writer Benjamin Liar is not alone in having an idea gestate for years, or even decades. Or being inspired by things he enjoyed in his 20s and 30s. And he’s not the first to be inspired by Dinotopia, be it James Gurney’s novels or the TV series.

But all three? He’s got me there.

In the following email interview about his cross-genre sci-fi / fantasy novel The Failures (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the first book in a trilogy called The Wanderlands, Liar explains how this story came together, along with what else influenced it and this series.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Bound Worlds” Author Megan E. O’Keefe

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date July 2, 2024
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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.

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Exclusive Interview: “Briefly Very Beautiful” Author Roz Dineen

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date July 1, 2024
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In the following email interview, writer Roz Dineen talks about how her new sci-fi novel, Briefly Very Beautiful (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, but one in which people, “…take it for granted as a back-drop,” an idea she got from a classic show about a house.

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Exclusive Interview: “NecroTek” Author Jonathan Maberry

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date June 28, 2024
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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.

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Exclusive Interview: “Road To Ruin” Author Hana Lee

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date June 27, 2024
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Writer Hana Lee is not the first person to be inspired by the movie Mad Max: Fury Road, and she won’t be the last.

Though she might be the first who was inspired to write a Fury Road-inspired fantasy story…with motorcycles…that run on magic.

In the following email interview, Lee talks about the novel in question, Road To Run (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), including how it’s (hopefully) the first book in a trilogy.