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Exclusive Interview: “Speculative Los Angeles” Editor Denise Hamilton

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date March 8, 2021
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For more than 15 years Brooklyn’s Akashic Books have presented great noir stories from around the world in their geographic City Noir anthologies: Brooklyn Noir, Tel Aviv Noir, Nairobi Noir, and so on. Now they’re potentially launching a similar series for science fiction with Speculative Los Angeles (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, writer and Speculative Los Angeles editor Denise Hamilton discusses what’s included in this inaugural collection, and how it — and this possible series — mirrors its Noir cousins.

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Exclusive Interview: “Halo: Point Of Light” Author Kelly Gay

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date March 3, 2021
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One of the breakout stars of the original Halo was 343 Guilty Spark. And like all good celebrities, Sparky parlayed his notoriety into a media empire that included a reality show [Keeping Up With The Reclaimers], a perfume [Eue De Digits], and even a line of decorative dish towels. And now he’s back, reuniting with his old pal Rion — and writer Kelly Gay — for the new novel, Halo: Point Of Light (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the sequel to Gay’s Halo: Smoke And Shadow and Halo: Renegades. In the following email interview, Gay talks about how the Sparkster inspired her to write this sci-fi space opera story.

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Exclusive Interview: The Swimmers Author Marian Womack

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 25, 2021
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It’s not uncommon for writers of science fiction to rework other people’s non-sci-fi stories. The classic 1956 movie Forbidden Planet was a retelling of William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, while the story in Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 movie Seven Samurai has been retold as both the steampunk anime Samurai 7 and as Stina Leicht’s sci-fi Western novel Persephone Station [which you can read more about by clicking here]. And now Jean Rhys’ 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea is getting similar treatment courtesy Marian Womack’s environmental speculative fiction novel The Swimmers (paperback, Kindle). Though in the following email interview about it, Womack not discusses why she wrote this rewrite, but how our current climate literally influenced it as well.

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Exclusive Interview: “Alien: Into Charybdis” Author Alex White

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 23, 2021
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To fans of inventive science fantasy tales, Alex White is best known as the writer of the Salvagers trilogy: A Big Ship At The Edge Of The Universe, A Bad Deal For The Whole Galaxy, and The Worst Of All Possible Worlds. But to fans of the Alien and Aliens movie, White is known for their extended universe novel Alien: The Cold Forge.

Well, for the moment, anyway. Going forward, Smith will also be known for their second foray into xenomorphic fiction, Alien: Into Charybdis (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).

In the following email interview, Smith explains what inspired this new bug hunt, how it connects to their previous one, and how writing them influenced their original novels, and vice versa.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Loosening Skin” & “Skyward Inn” Author Aliya Whiteley

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 23, 2021
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While people joke about how prolific Stephen King can be, Maine’s scariest son would be impressed with how many books Aliya Whiteley has either just put out has coming out. Especially if he read them. Not only was her noir sci-fi story The Loosening Skin (paperback, Kindle) just released in the U.S. for the first time, and her military sci-fi novel Skyward Inn (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) being released everywhere, but she put out a short story collection called Fearsome Creatures (paperback, Kindle) in October, and has a second, From The Neck Up (paperback, Kindle), due out September 14. And that’s not even all of it. In the following email interview, Whiteley discusses what inspired and influenced The Loosening Skin and Skyward Inn, as well as those collections of shorter works.

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Exclusive Interview: “Out Past The Stars” Author K.B. Wagers

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 22, 2021
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Five years after introducing us to the Princess Leia-esque Hail Bristol in Behind The Throne — the first book of The Indranan War trilogy — sci-fi writer K.B. Wagers is bringing Hail’s story to a close with Out Past The Stars (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the third and final book of The Farian War trilogy.

In the following email interview, Wagers talks about the entire two-trilogy saga, the final chapter, and what’s they’re working on next.

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Exclusive Interview: The Future Is Yours Author Dan Frey

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 17, 2021
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Everyone has had a moment where they wished they could see into the future, even if it just to find out what happens in the new Matrix movie. But in his speculative techno thriller The Future Is Yours (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Dan Frey postulates that it may not be the best idea, especially if you like having friends. In the following email interview, Frey discusses what inspired and influenced this epistolary novel, as well as the HBO adaptation currently in the works.

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Exclusive Interview: Engines Of Oblivion Author Karen Osborne

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 11, 2021
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War…war never changes. But it does change the people it leaves behind. Which is where we find Karen Osborne’s sci-fi space opera duology, the Memory War. In the following email interview, Osborne not only discusses what inspired and influenced the second book, Engines Of Oblivion (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), and how it connects to the first one, Architects Of Memory (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), but whether this actually is the end of the story.

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Exclusive Interview: Amid The Crowd Of Stars Author Stephen Leigh

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 8, 2021
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Science fiction has often told stories that are allegories for colonization. But in Stephen Leigh’s new sociological sci-fi novel Amid The Crowd Of Stars (hardcover, Kindle), he not only explores the conflicts that arise between a planet’s native population and the humans who’ve accidentally invaded it, but also the conflicts between the human survivors and the people who’ve come to rescue them, and between different groups of survivors. In the following email interview, Leigh discusses what inspired this story, and why it wasn’t influenced by other sci-fi colony stories.