![]() I approached House of Styx and House of Saints from the characters and their conflicts with each other, the government, and bank because a family saga works for different reasons and with different ingredients. Quantum Magician was a heist in space in the far future, so it has specific concerns and fun beats that have to happen to make it work. ![]() I totally approached it differently, but not because of the number of novels. Knowing the story was a duology, did you approach House of Saints and House of Styx different to the Quantum Magician saga? But as I was editing and polishing in early 2023, there were certainly moments and scenes and bits of dialogue that got to me and had me pausing to just feel, which doesn’t always happen with every story. I’ve noticed that I often am not able to say how I feel until I get to listen to the audiobook without any further responsibility for making changes. ![]() professional risk, maybe? That makes it hard to see the whole at once. We sat down with Künsken to discover his process of building such epic worlds, how this duology differs from his Quantum Magician saga and what he has coming up next… How does it feel to have concluded the story, there’s such emotion in the book, do you find yourself caught up in it at all?įirst of all, thank you! Yes, I’m definitely caught up in the sweep of it. But with the discovery comes great risk, not only from a planet that kills with its very touch but also from the banks and powers of old Earth, who will stop at nothing to claim this new technology for themselves. In the follow-up novel, George-Étienne and his children have formed The House of Styx, after finding a mysterious artefact on the surface of Venus herself. Now, Künsken is back with the book’s highly-anticipated sequel, The House Of Saints. We gave Derek Künsken’s space opera The House Of Styx five stars in our review of it back in 2020, calling it an “exhilarating and heart-breaking journey of discovery”.
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