Here's a clip from the Mind of Sai Marie interview with Rick Partlow I hosted today. This is an electrifying conversation about science fiction, imagination, and the future of storytelling.
Rick will joined me to discuss his acclaimed novel, Contact Front, a gripping military sci‑fi adventure that explores humanity’s first contact with alien civilizations and the courage required to face the unknown.
Listen to the full interview now: https://saimarie.substack.com/p/drop-troopers-an-interview-with-rick
00:00That took a little bit of adjustment because although I'm looking for realism, I wanted to move in a different direction from a lot of military science fiction that I'd read where people basically take battles from historic wars like Vietnam or World War II or whatever and just give them lasers instead of cannons and space fighters instead of fighter planes and then just fight that battle over again.
00:26I wanted to have battles that were realistic according to the technology that would be available.
00:32So having new tactics and strategies for something like a drop trooper took a lot of thought and world building to figure out how you would use machines like that.
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