Last year, Dan Moren kicked off his Galactic Cold War series of spy-fi novels with The Bayern Agenda. With the second installment, The Aleph Extraction (paperback, Kindle), newly available, I spoke with him via email to find out what inspired and influenced this sci-fi space opera heist story.
When you talk to science fiction authors about their influences, some names come up all the time: Bradbury, Asimov, and, if the book is funny, Adams.
But in the following email interview about her sci-fi space opera Liquid Crystal Nightingale (paperback, Kindle), writer EeLeen Lee drops names not usually heard in this context: Calvino, Levi, and Borges.
While space is mysterious, it’s not often the setting for mystery novels. But that’s exactly where writer J.T. Nicholas has set Re-Coil (paperback, Kindle), a cyberpunk sci-fi space opera mystery. In the following email interview, Nicholas discusses what inspired and influenced this whodunnit, and whether there will be more mysteries in space anytime soon.
In 1989, comic book writers Randy Stradley and Chris Warner pondered the “What If?” question that ultimately led to the Alien Vs. Predator comics, video games, and movies. Now writer Scott Sigler is posing a somewhat similar question in Aliens: Phalanx (paperback, Kindle), a new novel in which our favorite visitors tangle with some people with pointy sticks.
With Light Of Impossible Stars (paperback, Kindle), writer Gareth L. Powell is completing the sci-fi space opera trilogy Embers Of War that he began two years ago with Embers Of War and continued last year with Fleet Of Knives. In the following email interview, he discusses what inspired and influenced Stars, as well as briefly mentioning the new universe he’s creating.
You never know when inspiration might strike. It could hit you at the least opportune moments, like, say, when you’re taking a shower after returning home from a sci-fi convention. Which is exactly where R.W.W. Greene first got the idea that grew into his sci-fi space opera novel The Light Years (paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Greene discusses what inspired and influenced this story, as well as what he’d like to see it adapted into.
With The Firmament Of Flame (paperback, Kindle), writer Drew Williams is presenting the third, and probably penultimate novel in his sci-fi space opera series The Universe After. In the following email interview, Williams discusses what inspired and influenced this latest installment, and why he thinks you shouldn’t wait for the last book to come out before reading the other three.
Don’t you hate it when you’re doing spring cleaning and someone comes in and messes up the place? Such is the premise, loosely, of Joel Dane’s military sci-fi trilogy, Cry Pilot military sci-fi trilogy. In the following email interview, Dane discusses both Burn Cycle (Kindle), the second book of three, as well as the series as a whole.
When Karen and Sherylyn Dunstall put out their sci-fi space opera Stars Uncharted two years ago, the duo best known as S.K. Dunstall said it was a stand-alone story, but that there would be another. But in the following email interview about that second story, Stars Beyond (paperback, Kindle), they not only explain how it came together, but also how it came to be much more of a sequel than they originally planned.