Fans of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds are eagerly awaiting the release of the third season, as well as the announced but not yet filmed fourth.
But for the ones who just can’t wait, they can actually take a trip in time — way, way back to season 2 — with James Swallow’s new novel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward The Night (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Swallow discusses what inspired and influenced this sci-fi space opera story.
For nearly 25 years British science fiction author Neal Asher has written stories set in a fictional universe he calls Polity.
But while his newest installment Dark Diamond (paperback, Kindle) is the 21st installment of this series, in the following email interview — in which he also discusses what inspired and influenced this new novel — he explains why this story may serve as a good entry point for this sci-fi saga.
Having previously written four novels about characters from Marvel Comics, author Tristan Palmgren is now turning their attention to one from a different fictional universe: the science fiction space opera board game Twilight Imperium.
In the following email interview, Palmgren talks about what inspired and influenced the sci-fi space opera spy novel Twilight Imperium: Voice Of One (paperback, Kindle).
By calling it Space Brooms!, and by having it start on a space station that references Kurt Vonnegut, author A.G. Rodriquez is making it very clear that his new science fiction novel is deadly serious, maybe even academic.
And if you believe that, I have a bridge on Mars you might be interested in…cheap.
In the following email interview about Space Brooms! (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), Rodriquez talks about what inspired and influenced this humorous sci-fi story, as well as how laughable it actually gets (hint: very).
She’s been gone for more than two thousand years, but people are still inspired by the life and loves of Cleopatra, who was the Queen of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC.
Just ask author Emery Robin, who, in his duology Empire Without End, resets the life of Cleopatra in the far future, and as a science fiction space opera story.
In the following email interview, Robin talks about The Sea Eternal (hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the second novel in the Empire Without End duology after 2022’s The Stars Undying.
If you’re like me, then you’ve been a teenage boy who woke up on a strange spaceship, only to find the crew didn’t trust you because you have telepathic abilities, and since everyone knows that male telepaths are dangerous…
But while we’ve all been there, that doesn’t mean we don’t like reading stories in which this common occurance happens to someone else.
Which brings me to J. Warren’s young adult science fiction space opera novel Worldburner (paperback, Kindle).
In the following email interview, Warren talks about what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story.
In his novels Mickey7, Antimatter Blues, and Mal Goes To War, author Edward Ashton mixed science fiction with a bit of situational (and slightly surrealistic) humor.
But things seem like they’re getting a lot stranger, spacier, and snail-like in his new one, The Fourth Consort (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook)
In the following email interview, Aston talks about what inspired and influenced this humorous sci-fi space opera novel.
When he was the lead writer for 343 Industries, Jeremy Patenaude helped shaped the science fiction space opera saga told by the Halo video games, while also writing Halo: The Essential Visual Guide, co-writing Halo Mythos, and penning the short story “Sacrifice” that was included in a now unavailable special edition of Troy Denning’s novel Halo: Shadows Of Reach.
But while he may not work for 343 anymore (and 343 is Halo Studios now), he’s still contributing to the Halo saga with the new novel Halo: Empty Throne (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Patenaude talks about what inspired and influence this sci-fi story, as well as where it fits into the Halo-verse.
Like the previous novels in his Billion Worlds series, author James L. Cambias’ Picaresque / pulpy sci-fi space opera novel The Miranda Conspiracy (paperback, Kindle) is set thousands of years in the future.
So it might surprise you to learn that, in the following email interview, Cambias says this story was influenced by a novel from 1939 that was made into a famous movie in 1946.