In the following email interview about her new sci-fi space opera novel The Blighted Stars (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), the first book in a new sci-fi space opera trilogy called The Devoured Worlds, writer Megan O’Keefe is very clear about what influenced this story, and why certain aspects are the way they are.
But when asked where the idea for it came from, she just as confidentially says, ” Nowhere in particular…” As for why, well, you’ll just have to read the following Q&A.