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Exclusive Interview: “Sword & Planet” Editor Christopher Ruocchio

 

While the Dune novels and Star Wars saga are clearly as entrenched in the genres of science fiction and space opera as the Foundation novels and the Star Trek saga, there are also fantastical and spiritual elements to those former stories that place them in the realm known as space fantasy or science fantasy.

It’s also where you’ll find the stories collected in a new anthology called Sword & Planet (paperback, Kindle).

In the following email interview, S&P editor Christopher Ruocchio discusses how this collection came together.

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Exclusive Interview: “How The Multiverse Got Its Revenge” Author K. Eason

 

Sometimes we become so focused on our goals that we don’t consider what might happen if we achieve them. Just ask the scientists from Jurassic Park. It’s also the position Rory finds herself in K. Eason’s sci-fi space opera / space fantasy novel How The Multiverse Got Its Revenge (hardcover, Kindle), the sequel and aftermath to Eason’s How Rory Thorne Destroyed The Multiverse ((hardcoverpaperback, Kindleaudiobook). In the following email interview, Eason discusses what inspired and influenced this other half of the duology, as well as her plans for some Rory-free stories in the same space.

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Exclusive Interview: “Demon In White” Author Christopher Ruocchio

 

In Empire Of Silence and Howling Dark, the first two books of The Sun Eater series, writer Christopher Ruocchio presented a sci-fi space opera story that was like if Frank Herbert had returned the favor and written a Dune sequel influenced by Star Wars.

In the following email interview, Ruocchio discusses Demon In White (hardcover, Kindle), the third book in The Sun Eater saga, as well as the lite novel The Lesser Devil (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), a side story to this series.

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Exclusive Interview: “A Bad Deal For The Whole Galaxy” Author Alex White

 

With A Bad Deal For The Whole Galaxy (paperback, Kindle), writer Alex White is continuing The Scavengers series they began last year with A Big Ship At The Edge Of The Universe.

In the following email interview, they discuss the origins of this space fantasy story, how it connects to the first, and their plans for the third.