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Exclusive Interview: “Zen And The Art Of Starship Maintenance And Other Stories” Author Tobias S. Buckell

 

Two years after releasing his sixth collection of short stories, Shoggoths In Traffic And Other Stories, writer Tobias Buckell is back with his seventh, Zen And The Art Of Starship Maintenance And Other Stories (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). Which might seem quick to some people (and not quick enough to others). But as Buckell explains in the following email interview about Zen, “With hundreds of short stories I’ve published, I’m just trying to get them bundled so readers who want them in one place can get them that way.”

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“Star Wars Jedi: Survivor” Review

 

In the third-person hack & slash action game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, former Padawan Cal Kestis had to relearn all the Jedi skills he’d forgotten while trying to survive in a post-Order 66 universe.

But as Jedi Master Albert Einstein said, “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.”

Which is why, despite now being a Jedi, Cal still has a lot to learn in his new adventure, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PC). Good thing Jedi’s learn by doing…

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Exclusive Interview: “Descendant Machine” Author Gareth L. Powell

 

With his new sci-fi space opera novel Descendant Machine (paperback, Kindle), writer Gareth L. Powell is presenting the second half of the Continuance duology he launched last year with Stars And Bones. In the following email interview, Powell explains how Bones and Machine are connected, and unconnected, as well as why you don’t have to read them in the order they were written.

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Exclusive Interview: “Paradise-1” Author David Wellington

 

There’s a quip people make when they haven’t heard from someone in a while: “You don’t call, you don’t write…”

But imagine if wasn’t a someone, but an entire colony, in deep space, really far from Earth, who were the ones not calling, not writing… Which is the set-up for Paradise-1 (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), David Wellington’s new sci-fi horror novel, and the first book of his Red Space series.

In the following email interview, Wellington discusses what inspired and influenced this story, including how, like the titular colony, it was something of a group effort.

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Exclusive Interview: “Hel’s Eight” Author Stark Holborn

 

Guilt can be a heavy burden. It’s something the character Ten had to deal with in Stark Holborn’s 2021 science fiction space opera Western Ten Low, and something she’s still dealing with in the dystopian sci-fi sequel, Hel’s Eight (paperback, Kindle). And in the following email interview, Holborn has to deal with the burden of my questions about influences and inspiration and connection.

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Exclusive Interview: “Infinity Gate” Author M.R. Carey

 

One of the hallmarks of the space opera genre is that these stories often take place across many worlds.

But while that’s also true of M.R. Carey’s new sci-fi space opera novel Infinity Gate (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), as he explains in the following email interview, those many worlds are all Earth.

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Exclusive Interview: “Loki’s Ring” Author Stina Leicht

 

In the following email interview about her new science fiction space opera adventure novel Loki’s Ring (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Stina Leicht mentions a number of iconic sci-fi writers. As you would expect.

What you might not expect, though, is how many writers of non-fiction books she mentioned as well.

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Exclusive Interview: “Alien: Enemy Of My Enemy” Author Mary SanGiovanni

 

With Alien: Enemy Of My Enemy (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Mary SanGiovanni isn’t just putting her spin on this sci-fi series, she’s also concluding a loose trilogy that started with David Barnett’s Alien: Colony War and continued in Philippa Ballantine’s Alien: Inferno’s Fall. In the following email interview, SanGiovanni discusses what inspired and influenced her sci-fi horror thriller, as well as how it connects, and disconnects, from the other two books.

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“The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition” Review

 

Originally released in 2019, the first-person action-oriented role-playing game The Outer Worlds was like the recent Fallout games if that series had better real-time combat, was even snarkier, and was more influenced by such space operas as Firefly than such ’50s sci-fi movies as Forbidden Planet.

While a sequel is on the way, people who missed the original — and who own a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X or S — can now enjoy an enhanced and more complete version of the game with The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition. Which, no surprise, is just as good as the original, and may even be worth getting if you played some but not all of the original version.

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