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Exclusive Interview: “Richards & Klein” Author Guy Haley

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Post date May 25, 2021
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In the last few months, a number of sci-fi writers have had their older novels rereleased. Gareth L. Powell’s 2011 space opera The Recollection recently got a tenth anniversary edition [which you can read more about here], while Gavin G. Smith’s 2017 zombie survival novel Special Purposes: First Strike Weapon was also reissued as Spec Ops Z [which you can read more about here]. But as Guy Haley explains in the following email interview, his collection Richards & Klein (paperback, Kindle) — which pairs 2011’s Reality 36 and its 2012 sequel, Omega Point — isn’t just the same stories in a new package.

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Exclusive Interview: “How To Mars” Author David Ebenbach

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Post date May 25, 2021
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To some people, humans living on Mars is inevitable. Which means a reality TV show about humans living on Mars is inevitable as well. But maybe they’ll be swayed when they read David Ebenbach’s new comedic sci-fi novel How To Mars (paperback, Kindle), in which everything goes perfect and great and nothing bad happens, not at all. And if you believe that, I’ve got a plot of land on Mars you might be interested in, cheap. For the rest of us, though, there’s the following email interview, in which Ebenbach explains what inspired and influenced this story, and why it has no Kardashians.

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Exclusive Interview: Reset Author Sarina Dahlan

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Post date May 24, 2021
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While a lot of us say we’d like to forget 2020, it’s doubtful that most of us would if the opportunity presented itself. Especially those who found love in the time of Coronavirus. But what if the choice wasn’t yours. Such is the premise of Reset (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), a sci-fi love story by Sarina Dahlan. In the following email interview, Dahlan explains what inspired and influenced this story, and how she plans to tell more of them in the world she’s created.

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Exclusive Interview: “Aliens: Infiltrator” Author Weston Ochse

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Post date May 18, 2021
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Though inspired by and connected to the Aliens movies, the science fiction space opera horror novel Aliens: Infiltrator (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) is better qualified as a direct prequel to the upcoming video game Aliens: Fireteam (out later this year for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC). But as its writer Weston Ochse explains in the following email interview, it’s also got connections to a certain sitcom.

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Exclusive Interview: “Firebreak” Author Nicole Kornher-Stace

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Post date May 6, 2021
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As a confessed life-long gamer and hater of huge corporations, you’d think writer Nicole Kornher-Stance would be eager to mine these territories in her stories. But as she confesses in the following email interview about her dystopian sci-fi novel Firebreak (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), which does both, she admits that it actually made her more nervous than excited.

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Exclusive Interview: “Freehold: Defiance” Editor Michael Z. Williamson

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Post date May 6, 2021
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While sharing is caring, not everyone cares to do it. Especially writers when it comes to their fictional worlds. But for the third time in four years, author Michael Z. Williams is sharing the fictional universe of his Freehold sci-fi series with such writers as Jamie Ibson, Jonathan D. Green, Jessica Schlenker for the new short story anthology Freehold: Defiance (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Williamson discusses this third volume, as well as an anthology he’s contributed to, Battle Luna, which is newly available in paperback.

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Exclusive Interview: “Project Hail Mary” Author Andy Weir

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Post date May 4, 2021
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Writer Andy Weir clearly has a type. After stranding a guy all alone on Mars in his novel The Martian, Weir has now stranded a different guy on a spaceship in his new novel Project Hail Mary (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). Though as he explains in this email interview, the new guy isn’t entirely alone on that ship.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Godel Operation” Author James L. Cambias

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Post date May 3, 2021
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With his pulpy sci-fi novel The Godel Operation (paperback, Kindle), writer James L. Cambias is expanding his Billion Worlds universe, one that’s already home to a couple short stories and, if all goes well, will soon have many more.

In the following email interview, Cambias explains what inspired and influenced this first Billion Worlds novel, as well as his plans moving forward.

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Exclusive Interview: “Immunity Index” Author Sue Burke

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Post date May 3, 2021
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In the following email interview, writer Sue Burke discusses how her political sci-fi novel Immunity Index (paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) takes place during a global pandemic, but was largely written before the Covid-19 outbreak. What’s interesting — or maybe “scary” is a better word — is that she also says that even if she had written it during lockdown, as opposed to before, it wouldn’t have actually been all that different.