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Exclusive Interview: “Halo: Outcasts” Author Troy Denning

 

Having read nearly all of the novels based on the Halo games, and having interviewed many of the people who’ve written them, I’ve always thought of these books (and the games, and the comics…) as sci-fi space opera stories. But in the following email interview with Troy Denning, the author of seven Halo novels — including the newest, Halo: Outcasts (paperback, Kindle, audiobook) — he explains why these books (and games, and comics…) are more hard science fiction and space marine stories than anything operatic.

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Exclusive Interview: “Salvage Right” Co-Authors Sharon Lee & Steve Miller

 

Like many authors, the husband and wife writing team of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have often let the story dictate itself, let it and its character decide where to go. Which is how we got their newest one, Salvage Right (hardcover, Kindle), the latest in their ongoing sci-fi space opera series, Liaden Universe®. In the following email interview, Lee and Miller discuss what inspired this new novel, as well as how it willed itself into existence.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Splinter In The Sky” Author Kemi Ashing-Giwa

 

Like a lot of people, Kemi Ashing-Giwa picked up a new habit during the pandemic: drinking tea. But unlike people who took up baking bread or working out or playing Animal Crossing, Ashing-Giwa translated her newfound love into a novel, a sci-fi space opera story called The Splinter In The Sky (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) that — in the following email interview — she calls a, “spy thriller in space.”

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Exclusive Interview: “The Lost Fleet: Outlands: Implacable” Author Jack Campbell

 

With The Lost Fleet: Outlands: Implacable (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), science fiction writer Jack Campbell is not only concluding the Outlands trilogy, but possibly the entire Lost Fleet series as well. In the following email interview, he discusses both this military sci-fi space opera novel, as well as this epic saga.

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Exclusive Interview: “Caged Ocean Dub” Author Dare Segun Falowo

 

I have long said that short stories are a good way to get to know a fiction writer’s style. Which means it’s time we got to know Dare Segun Falowo, who recently published their first collection of short stories, Caged Ocean Dub: Glints & Stories (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Dare discusses what inspired and influenced these stories, as well as a way you might want to read them.

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Exclusive Interview: “Capture The Sun” Author Jessie Mihalik

 

With Capture The Sun (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Jessie Mihalik is concluding the romantic sci-fi space opera trilogy Starlight’s Shadow that she launched in 2022 with Hunt The Stars and continued that same year with Eclipse The Moon. In the following email interview, Mihalik discusses what inspired and influenced this final chapter.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Blighted Stars” Author Megan E. O’Keefe

 

In the following email interview about her new sci-fi space opera novel The Blighted Stars (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the first book in a new sci-fi space opera trilogy called The Devoured Worlds, writer Megan O’Keefe is very clear about what influenced this story, and why certain aspects are the way they are.

But when asked where the idea for it came from, she just as confidentially says, ” Nowhere in particular…” As for why, well, you’ll just have to read the following Q&A.

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Exclusive Interview: “Star Trek: Discovery: Somewhere To Belong” Author Dayton Ward

 

While Star Trek Discovery will soon be going into its fifth and final season, the adventures of Captain Burnham and her crew in the 32nd century are far from over. Assuming, of course, you like to read. Which brings me to Star Trek: Discovery: Somewhere To Belong (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the latest Star Trek novel by Dayton Ward.

In the following email interview, Ward discusses what inspired and influenced this sci-fi space opera novel, as well as how it fits in with the show and his previous Discovery novel, Drastic Measures.

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Exclusive Interview: “School Of X: The Phoenix Chase” Author Neil Kleid

 

It’s funny to look back at the first Iron Man movie and think how that character got his own movie when he wasn’t as well-known as Spider-Man or Superman. But every character has to start somewhere. Which is what I was thinking when editing the following email interview with writer Neil Kleid about his new novel School Of X: The Phoenix Chase (paperback, Kindle), an X-Men novel about the mutant Kid Omega. Who? you might ask…for now…