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Exclusive Interview: “Rich Man’s Sky” Author Wil McCarthy

 

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recently announced that he would stepping down as the company’s CEO to dedicate more time to his aerospace company Blue Origin. And he’s not the only rich guy who wants to be Captain Kirk. But what would happen if the final frontier of space was explored by a bunch of businessmen who’ve beaten NASA to the punch?

Such is the premise of Wil McCarthy’s new sci-fi space opera thriller Rich Man’s Sky (hardcover, Kindle).

In the following email interview, McCarthy discusses what influenced this story, and where it might be going, as well as the recent reissues of his Queendom Of Sol novels.

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Exclusive Interview: “Local Star” Author Aimee Ogden

 

While the writers of fortune cookie fortunes may disagree, everything is better when you add the phrase “in space” at the end. So says writer Aimee Ogden in the following email interview about her polyamorous space opera novella, Local Star (paperback, Kindle), a sci-fi rewrite of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing…in space.

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Exclusive Interview: Bug Author Giacomo Sartori

 

There’s been plenty of stories in which artificial life helps humanity, and plenty in which it hurts us. But in his offbeat sci-fi novel Bug (paperback, Kindle), writer Giacomo Sartori presents an A.I. that’s not very helpful, but not out to get us, either. In the following email interview, which was translated from the Italian by Ghjulia Romiti, Sartori discusses what inspired and influenced this rather interesting story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Robot Artists & Black Swans” Author Bruce Sterling

 

Science fiction writer Bruce Sterling has long been regarded as one of the principal architects of the cyberpunk genre. But for years, he’s also been writing Italian fantascienza — “fantasy science” stories — under the name Bruno Argento. Now, English-reading sci-fi fans in America will have an opportunity to enjoy Bruno’s stories with the new anthology Robot Artists & Black Swans: The Italian Dantascienza Stories (hardcover, Kindle). In the following email interview about it, Argento — I mean Sterling discusses this anthology as well as his alter-ego.

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Exclusive Interview: “A Broken Darkness” Author Premee Mohamed

 

Last year, writer Premee Mohamed mashed together science fiction, fantasy, and Lovecraftian cosmic horror in her novel Beneath The Rising (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

But this was only half the story. In the following email interview, Mohamed discusses the other half, A Broken Darkness (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), including how the Coronavirus pandemic changed her original plans for this second story.

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Exclusive Interview: Requiem Moon Author C.T. Rwizi

 

With Requiem Moon (hardcoverpaperback, Kindle, audiobook) writer C.T. Rwizi is continuing the science fantasy saga he started in 2020 with Scarlet Odyssey. But as he explains in the following email interview, this second book is no longer the end of the story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Five Tribes” Author Brian Nelson

 

Actions have consequences. And not always ones that can be foreseen. Take Brian Nelson’s military sci-fi technothriller trilogy The Course Of Empire. In the following email interview, Nelson explains how actions in the first book, The Last Sword Maker (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), come back to bite people in the ass in the newly released second one, Five Tribes (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).

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Exclusive Interview: Orange City Author Lee Matthew Goldberg

 

We all know sodas aren’t good for us…we just don’t care. But maybe we would if, like the soda in Lee Matthew Goldberg’s new dystopian sci-fi thriller Orange City (paperback, Kindle), the soda was instantly addictive and caused unpredictable mood swings as well as the unfortunate ability to perceive things as they really are. Though as he reveals in the following email interview about it, addictive carbonated beverages aren’t the oddest thing about this story.

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Exclusive Interview: Galactic Hellcats Author Marie Vibbert

 

T.S. Elliot once said good writers borrow, great writers steal.” But most don’t steal from their twin sisters. That’s the crime that Marie Vibbert confesses to, among others, in the following email interview about Galactic Hellcats (paperback, Kindle), her new bikers-in-space sci-fi adventure novel.