Sometimes people joke that the only way they can escape their family would be to move to Mars.
Clearly author Joe Mungo Reed doesn’t think this way because, in his speculative fiction / science fiction novel Terrestrial History (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), he tells a multi-generational story in which a family is pivotal in the colonization of the red planet.
In the following email interview, Reed talks about what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story.