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Exclusive Interview: The Way Of The Laser Editors Eric Bosarge & Joe M. McDermott

 

Like a lot of people, the only thing my college friends and I ever do together is have a drink and reminisce. But grad school pals — and fellow writers — Eric M. Bosarge [Sky Is Over] and J.M. McDermott [The Fortress At The End Of Time] have decided to upstage all of us by starting their own publishing house, Vernacular Books. In the following email interview, Joe and Eric discuss Vernacular’s first release, the sci-fi short story collection The Way Of The Laser: Future Crime Stories (paperback, Kindle).

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Exclusive Interview: “Red Noise” Author John P. Murphy

 

While real life would be so much better without jerks, the same can’t be said for fiction. Take the new pulpy sci-fi novel Red Noise (paperback, Kindle), which kicks off when jerks, well, act like jerks. What’s interesting is that, in the following email interview, Red Noise author John P. Murphy not only discusses what inspired and influenced this story, but also admits how it was almost derailed by some, well, furry jerks.

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Exclusive Interview: “Point B” Author Drew Magary

 

Usually when someone writes a science fiction story about a technology that doesn’t exist…yet, the writer will base their version more on fictional depictions than real science. But in the following email interview with writer Drew Magary about his romantic sci-fi novel Point B (paperback, Kindle), which involves teleportation, he explains that he consulted with an “actual physicist” to make sure his transporter functioned properly.

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Exclusive Interview: “Driving The Deep” Author Suzanne Palmer

 

Last year, writer Suzanne Palmer introduced us to space ship repossession specialist Fergus Ferguson in her cheeky sci-fi caper novel, Finder. Well, as they say, you can’t keep a good man down…or a man who tries really, really hard to be good. And so we have Driving The Deep (hardcover, audiobookKindle), the second in Palmer’s The Finder Chronicles. In the following email interview, Palmer discusses what inspired and influenced this second story, as well as her plans for this series going forward.

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Exclusive Interview: Ballistic Author Marko Kloos

 

With Ballistic (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), iconic science fiction writer Marko Kloos is continuing the military sci-fi space opera saga The Palladium Wars that he began last year with Aftershocks. In the following email interview, he discusses what inspired and influenced this second installment, as well as his plans for this series going forward.