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Exclusive Interview: “Star Trek: Coda, Book III: Oblivion’s Gate” Author David Mack

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 29, 2021
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With Star Trek: Coda, Book III: Oblivion’s Gate (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer David Mack is ending the Coda trilogy that launched in September with Book I: Moments Asunder and continued in October with Book II: The Ashes Of Tomorrow. Except unlike most trilogies, Star Trek and otherwise, David Mack didn’t write all three. Or even come up with the idea for this saga on his own; Moments Asunder and The Ashes Of Tomorrow come courtesy of fellow Trek scribes Dayton Ward and James Swallow, respectfully. Though in the following email interview, it’s Mr. Mack who gets stuck answering my questions about how this all came together, and how this trilogy earned the title of Coda.

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Exclusive Interview: “Elder Race” Author Adrian Tchaikovsky

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 16, 2021
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Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke famously once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” It’s an idea that fellow science fiction (and fantasy) writer Adrian Tchaikovsky is putting to the test in his new sci-fi / fantasy novella Elder Race (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Tchaikovsky explains what inspired and influenced this genre-mashing story.

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Exclusive Interview: “A Few Last Words For The Late Immortals” Author Michael Bishop

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 15, 2021
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When a writer puts together a collection of their work, they often collect their best work, their most recent work, or work that all falls within the same genre. And they usually keep their own council. But with A Few Last Words For The Late Immortals (paperback, Kindle), sci-fi and fantasy author Michael Bishop not only worked with editor Michael H. Hutchins, but he started with the idea of collecting pieces based on length; Immortals includes short stories, poems, prose poems, and a play, none of which top 3,000 words. In the following email interview, Bishop discusses what inspired him to assemble this collection.

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Exclusive Interview: “You Sexy Thing” Author Cat Rambo

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 15, 2021
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Isn’t it always the way: You finally get to retire, only to have something screw it up. I hate when that happens. But as cliché as it may be to have your dreams dashed just when they’re coming to fruition, there’s nothing cliché about how the characters in Cat Rambo’s sci-fi space opera military fantasy hopepunk novel You Sexy Thing (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) have their life plans derailed. In the following email interview, Rambo explains what inspired and influenced this genre-mashing novel, as well as their plans to further screw with their characters’ plans.

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Exclusive Interview: “Sinopticon” Editor / Translator Xueting Christine Ni

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 11, 2021
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Between Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem finding vocal fans in Barack Obama and the people behind Game Of Thrones, and Ken Liu being tapped to pen a Star Wars novel, The Legends Of Luke Skywalker, Chinese science fiction is “having a moment” as they say. Which brings me to Sinopticon: A Celebration Of Chinese Science Fiction (paperback, Kindle), a new short story collection edited and translated by Xueting Christine Ni. In the following email interview, Ni explains what went into assembling this anthology.

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Exclusive Interview: “Nightwatch On The Hinterlands” Author K. Eason

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 9, 2021
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Writer, author, and noted agnostic Robert Green Ingersoll once said that, “In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.” And no one learned that the hard way like Rory Thorne, the main character in K. Eason’s fairy tale-infused sci-fi novel How Rory Thorne Destroyed The Multiverse. But the consequences of Rory’s actions in Destroyed weren’t just limited to the follow-up novel, How The Multiverse Got Its Revenge; they’re continuing in Eason’s new one, Nightwatch On The Hinterlands (hardcover, Kindle), even though it takes place many, many years later (funny how that works). In the following email interview, Eason discusses what inspired this new story, including how it is also not the end of the story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Stolen Earth” Author J.T. Nicholas

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date November 5, 2021
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It’s scary to think that we could one day screw up the Earth so badly that we have to leave it. But like many terrible ideas, it only takes the right hands to turn it into a ripping read. Hands like those of writer J.T. Nicholas (if his excellent 2020 sci-fi novel Re-Coil is any indication). Which brings us to Stolen Earth (paperback, Kindle), his new dystopian post-apocalyptic sci-fi space opera novel in which humanity can’t even vacation on Earth, let alone live there. In the following email interview, Nicholas discusses what inspired and influenced this story.

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Exclusive Interview: “& This Is How To Stay Alive” Author Shingai Njeri Kagunda

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date October 28, 2021
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It’s important to know when to take advice and when to heed criticism. Just ask writer Shingai Njeri Kagunda; had she ignored the feedback she received for her short story “And This Is How To Stay Alive,” she never would’ve expanded it into the Afrofuturist time travel sci-fi novella & This Is How To Stay Alive (paperback). In the following email interview, Kagunda discusses what else helped shaped this story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Trinity” Author Dave Bara

Post author By Paul Semel
Post date October 27, 2021
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It can be hard to find a new place to live, especially if you’re not moving across town but to another state or another country. But in his new military sci-fi novel Trinity (paperback, Kindle), writer Dave Bara is making one character’s life even more difficult by forcing him to move to a different planet…and be responsible for other people as well. In the following email interview, Bara discusses what inspired and influenced this moving story, as well as his plans to expand it.