While the future may be female, the future is also going to be intelligent and artificial. And some of that A.I. is going to be soldiers.
In the following email interview, writer and editor Christopher Ruocchio discusses World Breakers (paperback, Kindle), a new military sci-fi anthology about A.I. war machines that he not only contributed to but also co-edited with fellow contributor Tony Daniel.
As Douglas Adams so aptly put it, “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” Which means it may take a while for AAA to show up when your spaceship gets a flat tire. Good thing the Near-Earth Orbital Guard are always at the ready. Well, so long as you get that flat tire while being a character in one of K.B. Wager’s NeoG novels.
In the following email interview, Wagers discusses the second book in this ongoing military sci-fi series, Hold Fast Through The Fire (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), as well as their plans for the future.
They say that adversity makes strange bedfellows. Apparently killing your gods does as well. In Zoe Hana Mikuta cyberpunk / dustpunk sci-fi novel Gearbreakers (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), we’re not only presented with a world in which mechs are worshipped as gods, but one where people are trying to kill them as well. In the following email interview, Mikuta discusses what inspired and influenced what she says is the first half of an epic duology.
It’s always fun to see how someone describes a story when they’re trying to be pithy. Take, for instance, how Solaris described John Appel’s sci-fi space opera thriller Assassin’s Orbit (paperback, Kindle, audiobook): “Golden Girls meets The Expanse with a side of Babylon Five.” But as Appel himself admits in the following email interview, that weird mix isn’t that far off.
On the surface, Nicole Kornher-Stace’s new illustrated novel Jillian Vs. Parasite Planet (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) sounds like it’s a middle-grade sci-fi adventure story. But as she and illustrator Scott Brown explain in the following email interview, the story is a bit deep, and thus may also appeal to people in grades 22, 34, 47…
If things continue the way they have been, we will one day be living in underwater homes. Which also means someone will be murdered in their underwater home. And when that happens, someone may say, “This reminds me of Midnight, Water City.”
In the following email interview about that novel, author Chris McKinney discusses this noir sci-fi novel (which is now available in hardcover, paperback, Kindle, and audiobook).
Traveling great distances is only possible because the laws of nature remain unchanged. But if that wasn’t the case, then taking a trip could be, well, a trip. Just ask Robot, the 11-year-old girl whose travel is at the center of Justin Hellstrom’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi road trip novel The Tide Will Erase All (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Hellstrom discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as where this saga is going.
The legend of King Arthur and the Knights Of The Round Table has been told and retold, and in many different ways, from Monty Python to Bugs Bunny to the Transformers. And yet none of them have Arty getting coffee…until now. Which is just one of the interesting revelations in the following email interview with Swapna Krisha and Jenn Northington, the co-editors of the new Arthurian short story collection Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview about his new novel When The Sparrow Falls (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Neil Sharpson talks about how this story encompasses elements of dystopian science fiction, cyberpunk sci-fi, and spy thrillers. But if he had his way, we’d all just refer to it as “Le Carré punk.” Thy will be done.