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Exclusive Interview: “New Adventures In Space Opera” Editor Jonathan Strahan

 

Science fiction is often about looking to the future, and this is especially true about sci-fi space opera stories.

So it’s not surprising that a sci-fi space opera short story anthology called New Adventures In Space Opera (paperback, Kindle) would also be forward looking. As editor Jonathan Strahan explains in the following email interview, “I edited two books [of space opera stories] with my good friend Gardner Dozois toward the end of the 2000s. … I wanted to put together a book that looked at what came next.”

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Exclusive Interview: “Devil’s Gun” Author Cat Rambo

 

There are a lot of things mercenaries can do when they retire: start their own private military companies; train other mercenaries; ride off into the sunset…

But in Cat Rambo’s sci-fi space opera novel You Sexy Thing, some retired mercs started their own restaurant…only to still get into trouble of the mercenary kind.

Now they’re getting into even more trouble in Devil’s Gun, the second book in Rambo’s Disco Space Opera series. With that book newly released in paperback — and a third, Rumor Has It, coming September 24th — I spoke to Rambo about what inspired and influenced this second story, and this series.

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Exclusive Interview: “Star Trek: The Next Generation: Pliable Truths” Author Dayton Ward

 

While DC and Marvel did it first, Star Trek was an early pioneer when it came to having a shared universe. For instance, when Star Trek: Deep Space Nine launched in 1993, it did so with an appearance from Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Captain Picard, while the latter show’s Worf joined the former station’s staff in DS9‘s fourth season.

Now the connections between TNG and DS9 are being strengthened by Dayton Ward’s new Star Trek novel Star Trek: The Next Generation: Pliable Truths (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

In the following email interview, Ward explains how this crossover novel came together, as well as why it doesn’t also connect with a certain Captain’s late-in-life adventures.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Bound Worlds” Author Megan E. O’Keefe

 

In most trilogies, the Big Bad is usually defeated in the third and final installment, while its impact is often left as an afterthought.

But in Megan E. O’Keefe’s The Devoured Worlds series, the central antagonist was [SPOILER ALERT] beaten in the second book, The Fractured Dark, which meant she could really delve into what happened next in the last book, The Bound Worlds (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

In the following email interview, O’Keefe explains why she altered the trilogy formula, as well as what else inspired and influenced this horror- and dystopian-infused sci-fi space opera story.

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Exclusive Interview: “NecroTek” Author Jonathan Maberry

 

Since 1923, the iconic science fiction / fantasy / horror magazine Weird Tales has presented stories that, as their own website puts it, are “so bizarre and far out, no one else would publish them.”

Well, now they’re doing the same thing with novels, starting with Jonathan Maberry’s deep space cosmic horror novel NecroTek (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).

In the following email interview, Maberry discusses how this book came to be, what inspired and influenced it, as well as his plans for The NecroTek Series.

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Exclusive Interview: “Echo Of Worlds” Author M.R. Carey

 

With Echo Of Worlds (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer M.R. Carey is concluding The Pandominion duology he started with last year’s Infinity Gate.

In the following email interview, Carey discusses what inspired this two-part story, why it’s only two books and not three or four or thirty-seven, and why they’re might soon be another story that’s part of this universe but not part of this series.

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Exclusive Interview: “Unexploded Remnants” Author Elaine Gallagher

 

In Elaine Gallagher’s new novella Unexploded Remnants (paperback, Kindle), a woman who seems to have taken career advice from Indiana Jones and Lara Croft is hunting for treasure in a Star Wars-like galaxy.

But when asked in the following email interview if this is a science fiction space opera story or a cyberpunk sci-fi story, Gallagher went old school by calling it “…a planetary romance.”

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Exclusive Interview: “The Knife And The Serpent” Author Tim Pratt

 

Author Tim Pratt is not the first to cite Ian M. Banks’ Culture series as an influence on his science fiction space opera stories, and he won’t be the last.

Pratt’s also not the first to incorporate elements of multiversal theory into his work, and, again, he won’t be the last.

But he may be the first (as far as I know) to explain how he’s combining by paraphrasing a candy commercial from the 1970s.

Which is what he does in the following email interview about his new multiversal sci-fi space opera adventure, The Knife And The Serpent (paperback, Kindle, audiobook).

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Exclusive Interview: “Ghostdrift” Author Suzanne Palmer

 

With Ghostdrift (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), author Suzanne Palmer is concluding The Finder Chronicles series she launched in 2019 with Finder, and continued in 2020 and 2021 with Driving The Deep and The Scavenger Door, respectfully.

In the following email interview, Palmer discusses what inspired and influenced this humorous sci-fi space opera novel, as well as why it’s time to give this series’ main character, Fergus Ferguson, some well-deserved time off.

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