June 19 —

Multiple-award-winning SF author Robert Charles Wilson, whose novella “Julian: A Christmas Story” is a current finalist for both this year’s Hugo Award and Theodore Sturgeon Award, told SCI FI Wire that the story takes place in an oil-depleted and depopulated future America in which the Union has 60 states.

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June 15 —

Multiple-award-winning SF author Barry B. Longyear’s story “The Good Kill,” which won this year’s Analog Analytical Laboratory (“AnLab”) Award for best novella, involves artificial animals with human consciousnesses and cloned bodies.

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June 14 —

Fantasy author Dave Duncan, whose novel Mother of Lies concludes the duology that began with Children of Chaos, told SCI FI Wire that the books were inspired by the historical custom of an overlord’s taking his underlings’ children as hostages to ensure his good behavior.

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June 13 — 

Editor/lexicographer Jeff Prucher told SCI FI Wire that his book Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction attempts to cover the shared language of science fiction writers, critics and fans–as well as those terms that originated in SF and have subsequently been adopted by mainstream society or other subcultures.

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June 12 —

SF author Justina Robson told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, Keeping It Real, might sound completely preposterous, but the only requirement she had to meet while writing the book was to have fun.

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June 8 — 

Historical-fiction author David Anthony Durham told SCI FI Wire that his first fantasy novel, Acacia, is a return to a genre that’s important to him. “I grew up and learned to love reading because of fantasy,” Durham said in an interview.

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 June 7 —

Best-selling fantasy author Raymond E. Feist told SCI FI Wire that the latest book in his popular Riftwar series, Into a Dark Realm, is essentially the second act of a three-act play.

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June 6 —

Mutliple-award-winning SF and fantasy author James Morrow, whose novel The Last Witchfinder is a finalist for this year’s Locus Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award, told SCI FI Wire that the book was inspired by a mind-boggling sentence in physicist Edward Harrison’s Masks of the Universe.

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June 5 —

SF author Tobias Buckell, whose novel Ragamuffin is the SCI FI Essential pick for June, told SCI FI Wire that the book is an adventurous and bloody romp about humanity’s struggle to step out from colonialist-minded aliens in the far future.

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June 4 —

Best-selling fantasy author Kelley Armstrong told SCI FI Wire that the protagonist of her latest book, No Humans Involved, was inspired by an article about self-styled psychic John Edward of Crossing Over fame.

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