Last year, Gareth L. Powell kicked off a sci-fi space opera trilogy with his novel Embers Of War. With the middle book, Fleet Of Knives (paperback, Kindle) either out or about to come out (depending on when you read this), and the third book slated for this time next year, I spoke to him via email about what inspired and influenced this second story, how it connects to the first, as well as Ragged Alice, a horror novella that’s coming out this April.
In his comedic sci-fi novel Terminal Alliance — the first novel in his Janitors Of The Post-Apocalypse trilogy — writer Jim C. Hines introduced us to the crew of the Earth Mercenary Corps ship the Pufferfish. And by “crew,” I mean the janitors. In the following email interview, Hines discusses the second book in the series, Terminal Uprising (hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook), how it connects to the first, and his plans for the third and final installment.
For more than forty years, science fiction writer C.J. Cherryh has been telling stories of a future history through the novels and short stories in her Alliance-Union series. In the following email interview, she and her life and writing partner Jane S. Fancher discuss Alliance Rising (hardcover, Kindle), the first book in their new subseries The Hinder Stars, while Cherryh also briefly discusses the new paperback edition of her non-Alliance-Union novel, Emergence.
In theory, one of the upsides of a TV streaming service is that your favorite shows are always available. In practice, however, that hasn’t always been the case. For that, you still need a physical release, something a lot of shows made for streaming services don’t get. But fans of Star Trek: Discovery are in luck as Paramount and CBS Home Entertainment have released Star Trek: Discovery: Season One (Blu-ray, DVD), which not only includes all fifteen episodes, but the kind of extras that fans of this sci-fi space opera will appreciate.
In 2015, science fiction writer Nancy Kress released Yesterday’s Kin, a sci-fi novella that won a Nebula Award and was included in 2015’s The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection.
But despite these accolades, Kress wasn’t satisfied with the finished novella, and decided to expand the story so much it became a trilogy of novels.
With the third and final book in Terran Tomorrow (hardcover, Kindle) now available, I conducted the following interview to find out what this last chapter is about, what ispired it, and whether it is the end or if she’s planning to expand this story even further.
With the release of Static Ruin (paperback, Kindle), writer Corey J. White is concluding the VoidWitch Saga trilogy he began last year with Killing Gravity and continued with Void Black Shadow. In the following email interview, White talks about what went into writing this novella, as well as his next project, the upcoming cyberpunk novel Repo Virtual.
It’s always interesting when a writer mixes two disparate genres together. Take Derek Kunsken’s new sci-fi space opera heist novel, The Quantum Magician (paperback, Kindle), the first book — but not his first story — in The Quantum Evolution series. In the following email interview, Kunsken discusses the origins and influences of this science fiction crime story, as well as his plans for this ongoing saga.
By calling the fourth book Exit Strategy (hardcover, Kindle), you might think sci-fi writer Martha Wells is bring her series The Murderbot Diaries to a close. But as we discuss in the following email interview, while Exit Strategy is the end of this particular saga, it isn’t the last we’ll be hearing from our fair Murderbot.