At a time when believing in science is practically a radical act, it’s interesting to contemplate a world where such knowledge is blasphemous to some but a religion for others. Such is the setting for Julia Whicker’s post-apocalyptic fantasy novel Wonderblood (hardcover, Kindle), in which people worship remnants of the space program. Though as she explains in the following email interview, it wasn’t a science book, or even a science fiction one, that inspired this story.