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Star Trek: Discovery: Season One Blu-ray, DVD Review

In theory, one of the upsides of a TV streaming service is that your favorite shows are always available. In practice, however, that hasn’t always been the case. For that, you still need a physical release, something a lot of shows made for streaming services don’t get. But fans of Star Trek: Discovery are in luck as Paramount and CBS Home Entertainment have released Star Trek: Discovery: Season One (Blu-ray, DVD), which not only includes all fifteen episodes, but the kind of extras that fans of this sci-fi space opera will appreciate.

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Exclusive Interview: Mage Against The Machine Author Shaun Barger

By calling his science fantasy novel Mage Against The Machine (hardcover, Kindle), writer Shaun Barger is practically begging for people to make snide comments or jokes about how many songs Led Zeppelin wrote about The Lord Of The Rings. But while he says his story does have a sense of humor about it, in the following email interview he explains that this tale is no joke.

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Exclusive Interview: Terran Tomorrow Author Nancy Kress

 

In 2015, science fiction writer Nancy Kress released Yesterday’s Kin, a sci-fi novella that won a Nebula Award and was included in 2015’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection. But despite these accolades, Kress wasn’t satisfied with the finished novella, and decided to expand the story so much it become a trilogy of novels. With the third and final book in Terran Tomorrow (hardcover, Kindle) now available, I conducted the following interview to find out what this last chapter is about, what ispired it, and whether it is the end or if she’s planning to expand this story even further.

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Exclusive Interview: “The First Protectors” Author Victor Godinez

 

In the following email interview, writer Victor Godinez discusses his new military sci-fi novel The First Protectors (paperback, Kindle), which he calls a more realistic look at what would happen if aliens invaded, and what we’d do in response.

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Exclusive Interview: Static Ruin Author Corey J. White

With the release of Static Ruin (paperback, Kindle), writer Corey J. White is concluding the VoidWitch Saga trilogy he began last year with Killing Gravity and continued with Void Black Shadow. In the following email interview, White talks about what went into writing this novella, as well as his next project, the upcoming cyberpunk novel Repo Virtual.

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Exclusive Interview: “Alice Payne Arrives” Author Kate Heartfield

 

As the ending of Deadpool 2 showed (especially the Super Duper $@%!& Cut of the movie), going back in time to change history can be tempting. In the following email interview, sci-fi writer and former newspaper journalist Kate Heartfield discusses her politically-adjacent time-traveling novella Alice Payne Arrives (paperback, Kindle).