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“Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Complete Second Season” 4K, Blu-Ray Review

 

While it will forever be known as “that show with Baby Yoda,” The Mandalorian has become much, much more. And that became especially clear in the show’s second season, which went even deeper into Star Wars lore, Mandalorian culture, and the aftermath of the Empire’s fall.

Well, now you can enjoy all of it, and without the fear of it being delisted or glitching out, thanks to Star Wars: The Mandalorian: The Complete Second Season (4K, Blu-Ray).

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Exclusive Interview: “Sandymancer” Author David Edison

 

Writer David Edison isn’t alone in being influenced by video games. Or Frank Herbert’s Dune. Or Tori Amos. Or anime. But being influenced by all of them…at the same time… In the following email interview, Edison talks about how these influences coalesced into the sci-fi space opera / epic fantasy mash-up that is his second novel, Sandymancer (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).

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Exclusive Interview: “Where Peace Is Lost” Author Valerie Valdes

 

As someone who’s hit middle age, and hard, I find myself appreciating stories about older heroes more these days. Like Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny. Or Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s a similar position that author Valerie Valdes finds herself in, one that led her to write her new space fantasy novel, Where Peace Is Lost (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Valdes discusses what else inspired and influenced this story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Ashes Of Man” Author Christopher Ruocchio

 

Four years after he launched his Sun Eater series of epic space fantasy novels with 2018’s Empire Of Silence, writer Christopher Ruocchio is preparing to bring it to a close with the penultimate installment, Ashes Of Man (hardcover, Kindle). In the following email interview, the ever prolific Ruocchio discusses this second-to-last novel, as well as why it won’t be the second-to-last book.

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Exclusive Interview: “Nightwatch Over Windscar” Author K. Eason

 

With Nightwatch Over Windscar (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer K. Eason isn’t just ending The Weep duology she launched with 2021’s Nightwatch On The Hinterlands, she’s also ending the saga she originally started with her previous duology, The Thorne Chronicles: 2019’s How Rory Thorne Destroyed The Multiverse and 2020’s How The Multiverse Got Its Revenge. In the following email interview, Eason discusses what inspired and influenced this space fantasy horror novel, and why it’s the end of the story.

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Exclusive Interview: “Threader God” Author Gerald Brandt

 

With Threader God (Kindle, audiobook), writer Gerald Brandt is concluding the Quantum Empiricia trilogy he launched in 2021 with Threader Origins, and continued the following year with Threader War. In the following email interview, Brandt discusses what inspired and influenced this final installment.

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Exclusive Interview: “Future Artifacts” Author Kameron Hurley

 

While some writers assemble short story collections around a theme, or connected with a framing device, most just pull together their latest and greatest…and then often find that a theme has emerged all on its own. Which is basically what happened to writer Kameron Hurley when she assembled Future Artifacts (paperback, audiobook), her second short story collection after 2019’s Meet Me In The Future. Well…except for the “latest” part.

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Exclusive Interview: “Kingdoms Of Death” Author Christopher Ruocchio

 

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.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Circus Infinite” Author Khan Wong

 

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.