Four years after he launched his Sun Eater series of epic space fantasy novels with 2018’s Empire Of Silence, writer Christopher Ruocchio is preparing to bring it to a close with the penultimate installment, Ashes Of Man (hardcover, Kindle). In the following email interview, the ever prolific Ruocchio discusses this second-to-last novel, as well as why it won’t be the second-to-last book.
Be it Goose in Captain Marvel, Spot in Star Trek: The Next Generation, or Jones from Alien, science fiction is lousy with cats. And now it’s getting even lousier (and louder) thanks to Edward Willet’s new sci-fi space opera novel The Tangled Stars (Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Willett not only explains what inspired this adventure story, but why he chose to include a cat and not a dog or fish or octopus.
In a movie full of colorful characters, Aliens‘ bad ass space marine Jenette Vasquez still managed to stand out. It is just too bad we don’t get to know her better. Or rather, it was… Now, fans of this bad ass soldier can get to know her better, and her family, too, in V. Castro’s new novel Aliens: Vasquez (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview about it, Castro discusses the scope of this military sci-fi space opera horror story, as well as how her own heritage informed it.
Given how dangerous it can be, we don’t usually think of space as a place for “sexy time.” But that’s exactly what you get, and more, from Bendi Barrett’s new erotic sci-fantasy horror space opera novella Empire Of The Feast (paperback). In the following email interview, Barrett discusses what inspired and influenced this sexy science fiction story.
While a lot of food in Star Trek comes from the replicators, there’s plenty of fresh food where no one has eaten before. And no, I don’t just mean gagh.
But you don’t have to visit the promenade on Deep Space 9 or the galley on the U.S.S. Voyager to enjoy them; you can make them at home thanks to Chelsea Monroe-Cassel’s new cookbook, The Star Trek Cookbook (hardcover, Kindle), the origin of which she discusses in the following email interview.
In her three previous Halo novels — Smoke And Shadow, Renegades, and Point Of Light — writer Kelly Gay expanded upon the military sci-fi space opera universe of the titular video games in a rather interesting (and interconnected) way. But as she explains in the following email interview about Halo: The Rubicon Protocol (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), this new (and unconnected) story hits a little closer to home.
On the surface, Caren Gussoff’s novella So Quick Bright Things Come To Confusion (paperback, Kindle) sounds like it’s a romantic sci-fi space opera story. But in the following email interview about it, she not only discusses what inspired and influenced it, but why it’s also secretly, “a comedy of manners horror story.”
With Fault Tolerance (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Valerie Valdes is concluding the cat-astrophic sci-fi space opera trilogy she launched in 2019 with Chilling Effect, and continued in 2020 with Prime Deceptions. In the following email interview, Valdes discusses what inspired and influenced this final installment.