As fans of W. Michael Gear’s Donovan novels have long known, it was inevitable that The Corporation would eventually send someone to the titular planet to reaffirm control of their errant colony. Which is finally happening in Reckoning (hardcover, Kindle), the sixth Donovan novel. But as fans of these sci-fi adventure novels also know — and as Gear affirms in the following email interview — nothing on Donovan ever goes to plan.
With Lightning Shell (hardcover, Kindle), writers W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear are concluding both their North America’s Forgotten Past series and their People Of Cahokia sub-series. In the following email interview, Kathleen and Michael discuss these historical fiction novels, as well as why Shell is the finale.
With the release of Adrift (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer W. Michael Gear is continuing the Donovan series of sci-fi adventure stories he began in 2018 with Outpost. In the following email interview, Gear not only discusses “what” inspired and influenced this fifth installment, but “who” as well.
While some writers have day jobs to make ends meet, others have day jobs that meet with their writing. And no, not for coffee and small talk. Take science fiction writer W. Michael Gear, who — in the following email interview about his new novel Unreconciled (hardcover, Kindle), the fourth in his Donovan series — discusses how his work as an archeologist informed this sci-fi adventure story.
While people have long dreamed of moving to another planet — insert your own joke about there being no intelligent life down here, Scotty — the reality is that living on another world would not be easy. Heck, just dealing with local allergens would turn Claritin and Zyrtec into multi-billion dollar companies. But why bother packing and moving and buying all that antihistamine when you can just read W. Michael Gear’s Donovan novels, which are all about living on that titular planet far, far away. In the following email interview, Gear discusses Pariah (hardcover, Kindle), the fourth and newest installment in this sci-fi adventure series.