With Terminal Peace (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Jim C. Hines is completing the Janitors Of The Post-Apocalypse trilogy he launched with 2017’s Terminal Alliance and continued in 2019’s Terminal Uprising. In the following email interview, Hines discusses what inspired and influenced this epic and humorous sci-fi space opera saga.
The writer has a degree in Shakespeare, the press materials reference Bridgerton, and the hero’s name unintentionally recalls a certain dark knight’s favorite reporter. But in the following email interview about the romantic young adult sci-fi space opera novel The Stars Between Us (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), the aforementioned author, Cristin Terrill, cites Charles Dickens more than the bard, those Brits, or Batman.
Frank Herbert’s sci-fi space opera novel Dune has been wildly influential since it was first released in 1965. And not just on other novels. Its influence has been felt in movies, video games, and, of course, comic books. So it’s fitting that Dune would become the subject of its own comic book adaptation. In the following email interview, the artists working on this visual version — Patricia Martín and Raúl Allén— discuss the second book of three, Dune, The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad’Dib (hardcover, Kindle).
In a movie — like, say, Alien — the person writing the screenplay and the person who came up with the story are not always the same person. Or people. Like, say, Alien, which has a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon, but a story by O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett. But you don’t usually see this with novels, even novels connected to such movies, as, say, Alien. Or at least you didn’t until now, and the release of Alien: Inferno’s Fall (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), which (as it says inside) is, “A novel by Philippa Ballantine” and has a “Story by Philippa Ballantine and Clara Čarija.” To find out what this means for Philippa, Clara, and, of course, you, dear reader, check out the following email interview.
In his ongoing series The Galactic Cold War, writer Dan Moren injects elements of sci-fi and space opera into spy stories. Or should that be the other way around? In the following email interview, he discusses what inspired and influenced the newest installment, The Nova Incident (paperback, Kindle).
War…war never changes. Which may be why some people are just happier when there’s a war. Such is the problem facing the crew of the Starlight’s Shadow in Jessie Mihalik’s sci-fi space opera trilogy of the same name. In the following email interview, Mihalik discusses the second book in this saga, Eclipse The Moon (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).
Much like the Wu-Tang Clan, giant robots ain’t nothing to fuck with. But that’s not stopping author Alex White, whose new sci-fi space opera novel August Kitko And The Mechas From Space (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — the start of the Starmetal Symphony trilogy — features (as White explains in the following email interview), “mecha fights, big space battles, and smooching.”
In science fiction, communication between alien races often comes courtesy of a universal translator, which instantly converts one person’s language into another’s. But what if communication has certain unintended consequences…like, say, getting the recipient drunk? Handy for parties; a problem for work. But in writer Eddie Robson’s science fiction mystery novel Drunk On All Your Strange New Words (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), getting hammered on language isn’t the biggest problem for Lydia, the cultural attaché for an alien diplomat. In the following email interview, Robson explains what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story.
It’s always interesting when an author takes inspiration from their work life in writing their stories.
Which is one reason why I got excited when, in the following email interview, author Mark Salzwedel explained that his new sci-fi space opera novel The Lever (paperback, Kindle) came out of his experiences working as a hypnotherapist and doing “research on genetic factors in sexual and gender orientation.”