Often when we hear about two people writing a novel together, it’s because they were friends first, or fans of each other’s work. But in the following email interview with co-writers John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer about their military sci-fi gamelit novel Into The Real (hardcover, Kindle), one of them mentions being a big fan of the other, while the other, well, we’ll let him explain the situation.
While part of me wishes time travel was physically possible — if only so I could see Led Zeppelin at The Whiskey in January of 1969 — it’s probably best that it isn’t because you know not everyone would use it to see rock concerts they were too young to go to at the time. Some would weaponize it.
But while doing this may not be possible (thank god), it is still fun to read about. Say, in an anthology of time travel stories.
In the following email interview, writer and editor Christopher Ruocchio discusses Time Troopers (paperback, Kindle), a new collection of time travel-centric military sci-fi short stories he co-edited with frequent collaborator Hank Davis.
In the movie Hidden Figures, and the book by Margot Lee Shetterly that inspired it, we see how women at NASA were instrumental during the ’60s space race. Which is kind of what Sylvain Neuvel’s sci-fi trilogy Take Them To The Stars is about…if you swapped human women for alien ones. In the following email interview, Neuvel discusses this series’ second installment, Until The Last Of Me (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
With Kingdoms Of Death (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Christopher Ruocchio is presenting the fourth novel in his space fantasy series, The Sun Eater saga.
But as he explains in the following email interview, this series just got longer, sort of, and is all the better for it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
