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Exclusive Interview: “Area 51 Interns: Alien Summer” Authors James S. Murray & Carsen Smith

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date March 15, 2022
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For years, people have wondered what the U.S. Government was keeping so secret in the military installation known as Area 51. (Ignoring, for some reason, what’s going on in Areas 1-50). But now we know! Or rather, we will when we read the new middle grade sci-fi adventure novel Area 51 Interns: Alien Summer (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) by James S. Murray (a.k.a. Murr from the TV show Impractical Jokers and The Misery Index) and Carsen Smith (best known for her work with the Upright Citizens Brigade). In the following email interview, Murr and Carsen discuss what inspired and influenced this kid friendly alien escape story, as well as their plans for future installments.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Circus Infinite” Author Khan Wong

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date March 9, 2022
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Usually when we talk about sci-fi space opera / space fantasy stories, there’s aliens, spaceships, politcal intruige, maybe some weird food. But in the following email interview about his sci-fi space opera / space fantasy novel The Circus Infinite (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Khan Wong instead talks about crimebosses, acrobats, and Oliver Twist.

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Exclusive Interview: “Space Corps” Author Ian Schwartz

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Post date March 8, 2022
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With Space Corps (paperback, Kindle), writer Ian Schwartz is kicking off a trilogy of the same name. But as we discuss in the following email interview about it — in which he details what inspired and influenced both this military sci-fi space opera and this series — fans won’t have to wait long to find out how Schwartz is ending this threesome.

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Exclusive Interview: “Stars And Bones” Author Gareth L. Powell

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date March 2, 2022
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Sometimes it seems like it would all be easier if someone else sorted it all out. Especially these days when our problems seem so insurmountable. It’s a thought that writer Gareth L. Powell not only entertained, but is also exploring in his new cosmic horror-infused sci-fi space opera novel Stars And Bones (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Powell discusses where this idea took him, and how it’s going to require more than one story to complete that thought.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Misfit Soldier” Author Michael Mammay

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Post date March 1, 2022
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In the following email interview about his new science fiction heist novel The Misfit Soldier (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Michael Mammay explains why — despite his main character being a soldier in power armor — this isn’t really a military sci-fi novel.

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Exclusive Interview: “Weird World War IV” Editor Sean Patrick Hazlett

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 28, 2022
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When putting together the alt-history military science fiction short story anthology Weird World War III, editor Sean Patrick Hazlett did so with the one limitation that the titular conflict be between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. But in the following email interview about the follow-up, Weird World War IV (paperback, Kindle), Hazlett says that while it is about Earth’s fourth all-invitational conflict, the previous restriction as to the participants was lifted.

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Exclusive Interview: “Inheritors Of Power” Author Juliette Wade

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Post date February 24, 2022
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With Inheritors Of Power (paperback, Kindle), writer Juliette Wade is presenting the third novel in her five-part sociological science fiction series The Broken Trust. But as she explains in the following email interview, Inheritors was originally going to be where this saga started.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Paradox Hotel” Author Rob Hart

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date February 22, 2022
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From robots to mobile phones to self-driving cars, science fiction stories have often predicted the future.

Which bodes well for the hospitality industry, since writer Rob Hart has just predicted time travel luxury hotels in his new romantic sci-fi novel The Paradox Hotel (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).

Well, except that — as he and I discuss in the following email interview about Paradox — this story starts with a murder…

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Exclusive Interview: “Sisters Of The Forsaken Stars” Author Lina Rather

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Post date February 21, 2022
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With Sisters Of The Forsaken Stars (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Lina Rather isn’t just continuing the Our Lady Of Endless Worlds series she started in 2019 with Sisters Of The Vast Black, she’s presenting the aftermath of that sci-fi space opera novella. In the following email interview, Rather discusses what happens to her intrepid space nuns in this second adventure, and why she’s putting the sisters through it.