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Exclusive Interview: Prime Authors Chris Kluwe & Andrew Reiner

 

With a planet where genetic experiments have run amok, the sci-fi novel Prime (paperback, digital) has been likened to — and sometimes by its own authors — Jurassic Park…In Space! But in talking to authors Chris Kluwe (yes, the former punter for the Minnesota Vikings) and Andrew Reiner (yes, the executive editor of Game Informer magazine and gameinformer.com), while Prime may be an intergalactic take on Michael Crichton’s sci-fi disaster tale, both note that there are a lot of other influences at work here as well.

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Exclusive Interview: Dark Eden Author Chris Beckett

In his new sci-fi novel Dark Eden, writer Chris Beckett imagines an alien world where everyone — and their society’s rules — originated with just two people. But while the plot and the title might have you thinking that a certain Bible story was the big inspiration for his book, as Beckett explains, there’s other influences at work here as well.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Martian” Author Andy Weir

 

For many writers, penning a story about an astronaut stranded on Mars would ultimately lead to some such sci-fi elements as little green men or an ancient civilization destroyed by some unknown danger.

But in his first novel, The Martian (paperback, Kindle), Andy Weir is taking a different approach; a more realistic one that eschews sci-fi tropes, and makes this more of a thriller and a disaster movie in book form.

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Exclusive Interview: Ex-Purgatory Writer Peter Clines

When you think about it, I mean really think about it, the best thing to be in a zombie apocalypse isn’t a cop or a army guy or a sword-swinging lady with cool hair. It’s a superhero. Well, one with superpowers, that is, not just some rich dude with parental abandonment issues. At least that what I’ve gleaned from the Ex- novels by Peter Clines, who explains what inspired these novels as well as both the zombies and superheroes in them.