With Tom Clancy’s The Division: Hunted (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), writer Thomas Parrott is concluding the Operation Crossroads trilogy of technothrillers based on the titular video games, which he started in 2022 with Recruited and continued later that year with Compromised.
In the following email interview, Parrott discusses how this third installment finishes the story (and how he feels about that) as well as what influenced this final novel.
With Beggar’s Sky (hardcover, Kindle), writer Wil McCarthy is once again exploring the completely fictional, and downright outlandish idea, of what might happen if the super rich took over the space race. Like that would ever happen,
In the following email interview, McCarthy discusses what inspired and influenced this hard sci-fi space opera/ political spy thriller.
Usually stories about people being frozen for a long time are firmly in the science fiction genre. Or the comic book section.
But in the following email interview about his new technothriller mystery novel Deep Freeze (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Michael C. Grumley explains how this story about a people-sicle is less of an “what if” and more of a “when.”
One of the interesting things about the board and card game-related novels published by Aconyte Books is how many of the authors have not been hardcore players of the games they’re writing novels about. (See these interviews with Cath Lauria, Ari Marmell, and Tim Waggoner.)
But the same cannot be said of M. Darusha Wehm, who, in the following email interview about their new sci-fi adventure novel Terraforming Mars: Shores Of A New Horizon (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), talks about how being a fan of FryxGame’s board game inspired and influenced this story.
Apologies for spoiling a movie you should’ve seen 31 years ago, but one of the big shocks of 1992’s Alien3 came when Bishop from Aliens showed up, only it wasn’t that Bishop, it was Michael Bishop Weyland, the creator of the Bishop android. And while he wants the queen growing inside Ripley, he also wants his ‘droid back.
Which is where the story begins for T.R. Napper’s cyberpunk-infused military science fiction thriller Aliens: Bishop (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Napper discusses how he came to write this book, as well as whether the real Bishop, iconic actor Lance Henriksen, has gotten his copy yet.
As William Shakespeare famously said, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” But you have to wonder what old Willy would say about something named a Mongolian Death Worm. Maybe it would inspire him the way it did Robert Greenberger, the author of the horror novella Sand And Secrets (paperback, Kindle), the latest in eSpec Book’s Systema Parodoxa series of novellas about cryptids. In the following email interview, Greenberger discusses why he liked the name so much, and how it inspired the rest of his story.
With To Dance With Destiny (paperback, Kindle), writer W.L. Hawkin is presenting the fifth book of her urban fantasy thriller series, the Hollystone Mysteries. In the following email interview, Hawkin talks about what inspired and influenced this latest installment, as well as how it connects to the previous four.
For nearly fifteen years, writer Jonathan Maberry has put former detective Joe Ledger in increasingly more dangerous situations, originally as an agent of the Department of Military Sciences, and now as a member of Rogue Team International. Which is where we find him in his newest adventure, Cave 13 (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). In the following email interview, Maberry discusses what inspired and influenced this thriller.
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.”