In 2019, when writer Tim Pratt was doing interviews about his sci-fi space opera novel The Forbidden Stars, he said that while it was the final book of his Axiom trilogy, “I expect to still write stories and novellas set in the world. … I want to do a short book each about the engineer Ashok, the A.I. Shall, and the alien Lantern.”
Jump ahead two years, to now, and we have The Alien Stars And Other Novellas (paperback, Kindle), three stories about Ashok, Shall, and Lantern. In the following email interview, Pratt discusses these three novellas, as well as the three unrelated novels he’s either recently released or will have out soon.
It was recently announced that Gareth L. Powell’s sci-fi space opera novel Embers Of War might be coming to TV screens in the not so distant future. But this isn’t the only bit of good news for Powell and his fans; Solaris have just released The Recollection: Tenth Anniversary Edition (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), a new edition of his second novel. In the following email interview, Powell discusses both the 2011 original and this new edition.
As if writing three novels that clock in at more than 600 to 700 — pages each wasn’t enough, with a 170-page novella to boot, science fantasy writer Christopher Ruocchio has decided to further expand his already epic Sun Eater series with a plethora of short stories.
In the following email interview, Ruocchio discusses the first collection of them, Tales Of The Sun Eater, Vol. 1 (Kindle), as well as his plans for more volumes, a print collection, and the next lengthy novel.
I don’t know what it is, but robots just seem like they’d make great detectives in noir sci-fi stories. For proof of this, you have to go no further than The Qubit Zirconium (paperback, Kindle), M. Darusha Wehm’s comedic buddy cop noir mystery science fantasy space opera. In the following email interview about it, Wehm discusses what inspired and influenced this robotic heist caper, as well as how it connects to the sci-fi board game KeyForge.
With The Galaxy, And The Ground Within (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Becky Chambers is bringing her epic and excellent Wayfarers series of stand-alone sci-fi space opera novels to a close. In the following email interview, Chambers discusses this final installment, as well as her plans for the future.
Ari Marmell’s cosmic horror / noir mystery Litany Of Dreams (paperback, Kindle) is not the first novel based on a board game. Heck, it’s not even the first based on Fantasy Flight’s H.P. Lovecraft-inspired board game Arkham Horror.
But what sets it apart — as Marmell explains in the following email interview — is that unlike most, Litany is actually a prequel that helps set up elements of the Arkham world.
While some short story writers find a genre or subgenre they like and stick to it, sci-fi and speculative fiction author Alaya Dawn Johnson has, by her own admission, “…played a lot with genre over the years.” Though that’s not all she had to say in the following email interview about Reconstruction (paperback, Kindle), her first short story collection.
Can we ever truly know someone? Truly? Or will it have to wait until we all meld our consciousnesses into a single hive mind? To hear writer Elly Bangs talk about it — as she did in the following email interview about her peri-apocalyptic cyberpunk sci-fi thriller Unity (paperback, Kindle) — even that might not help.