For more than three decades and over twenty novels writers Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have been exploring the sci-fi space opera realm of their Liaden Universe® novels. In the following email interview about the latest installment, Trader’s Leap (hardcover, Kindle), this dynamic duo explain how this story fits into the saga at large (hint: it’s not where you might expect).
With The Saints Of Salvation (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), science fiction writer Peter F. Hamilton is bringing The Salvation Sequence trilogy to a close. But as he discusses the following email interview, the end of this trilogy doesn’t mean he’s leaving this fictional universe for good.
In the midst of the current pandemic, one thing has become perfectly clear: If a writer makes a mistake of even hinting that they have a pet, I will ask a stupid question about it. Which is exactly what happened when I did the following email interview with writer and cat owner Essa Hansen about her sci-fi space opera / space fantasy novel Nophek Gloss (paperback, Kindle), which is the first part of The Graven trilogy.
We’ve all heard the saying: “Write what you know.” It’s advice that writer and virtual reality video game producer Kimberly Unger has taken to heart with her first novel, Nucleation (paperback, Kindle), which she calls a “nanotech space opera.” In the following email interview, Unger explains what inspired and influenced this cyberpunk sci-fi space opera story, and not just the stuff from her day job.
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 ((hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook). 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.
With Halo: Shadows Of Reach (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), author Troy Denning continues to be the writer with the most stories set in the universe of Master Chief, The Covenant, and the other denizens of this sci-fi first-person shooter series. In the following email interview, Denning discusses how this military science fiction story connects to the games and the other Halo novels, his and others, as well as why he enjoys visiting this turbulent universe of someone else’s creation so much.
There was a time when seeing an actor return to the role that made them famous meant their career had stalled and they needed the money, and what they did with this return usually reflected this. But no more. Just as Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, and Mark Hamill made triumphant returns in the recent Star Wars movies, so too did Patrick Stewart when he again took up the mantle of Jean-Luc Picard for the streaming show Star Trek: Picard, which has just been released on Blu-ray, DVD, and limited edition Blu-ray steelbook, all of which do this show justice.
Some people are inspired to write when their heart gets broken.
But in the following email interview with writer Karen Osborne about her sci-fi space opera novel Architects Of Memory (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — the first book in her Memory War duology — she says this story was inspired, in part, when her foot got broken.