For more than three decades and over twenty novels writers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have been exploring the sci-fi space opera realm of their Liaden Universe® novels. In the following email interview about the latest installment, Trader’s Leap (hardcover, Kindle), this dynamic duo explain how this story fits into the saga at large (hint: it’s not where you might expect).
For the past fifteen years the podcast Escape Pod has presented science fiction stories by both established writers and writers hoping to establish themselves. In honor of this milestone, current co-hosts Mur Lafferty and S.B. Divya — both respected sci-fi writers in their own right — have assembled the new book, Escape Pod: The Science Fiction Anthology (paperback, Kindle), which includes stories by such iconic science fiction writers as N.K. Jemisin, John Scalzi, Sarah Gailey, Tim Pratt, and Lafferty herself. In the following email interview, Lafferty and Divya discuss why they put this book together, and what went into its creation.
Please note: All answers come from both Mur Lafferty and S.B. Divya unless otherwise indicated.
With The Saints Of Salvation (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), science fiction writer Peter F. Hamilton is bringing The Salvation Sequence trilogy to a close. But as he discusses the following email interview, the end of this trilogy doesn’t mean he’s leaving this fictional universe for good.
In the midst of the current pandemic, one thing has become perfectly clear: If a writer makes a mistake of even hinting that they have a pet, I will ask a stupid question about it. Which is exactly what happened when I did the following email interview with writer and cat owner Essa Hansen about her sci-fi space opera / space fantasy novel Nophek Gloss (paperback, Kindle), which is the first part of The Graven trilogy.
Everything comes with a price. Which is what Malachi learns when someone offers to graft him a new tongue, thus restoring his ability to speak, in T.C. Farren’s new speculative fiction horror thriller novel The Book Of Malachi (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Farren discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as why she didn’t write it as a movie.
We’ve all heard the saying: “Write what you know.” It’s advice that writer and virtual reality video game producer Kimberly Unger has taken to heart with her first novel, Nucleation (paperback, Kindle), which she calls a “nanotech space opera.” In the following email interview, Unger explains what inspired and influenced this cyberpunk sci-fi space opera story, and not just the stuff from her day job.
While many books are just words on a page, sometimes writers like to do interesting things with how those words are place on those pages. Case in point: XX (hardcover, Kindle), the new science fiction novel by writer, graphic designer, illustrator, and comic book artist Rian Hughes. In the following email interview, Hughes explains why XX is a typographically interesting novel, as opposed to just a graphic one, as well as what inspired and influenced its story.
Sometimes we become so focused on our goals that we don’t consider what might happen if we achieve them. Just ask the scientists from Jurassic Park. It’s also the position Rory finds herself in K. Eason’s sci-fi space opera / space fantasy novel How The Multiverse Got Its Revenge (hardcover, Kindle), the sequel and aftermath to Eason’s How Rory Thorne Destroyed The Multiverse ((hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Eason discusses what inspired and influenced this other half of the duology, as well as her plans for some Rory-free stories in the same space.