Sci-fi author Marko Kloos on what it takes to build a brand new solar system
Over the last six years, author Marko Kloos has forged an impressive career for himself with Frontlines, his popular, long-running military science fiction series. This year, he’s shifting gears, setting aside Frontlines to start a brand new series called The Palladium Wars, a space opera set in the aftermath of a devastating war.
Kloos’s series began its life as a submission to the Viable Paradise SF/F Writer’s Workshop — an annual boot camp on Martha’s Vineyard that pairs aspiring writers with seasoned professionals. He wove in his own experiences as a non-commissioned officer in the German military into the story, which followed a recruit named Andrew Greyson, who joins the military to escape from the slums of an overcrowded North...