In many sci-fi space operas, the way people get around isn’t as important as what they do when they get there. But that’s not true for Nancy Kress’ The Eleventh Gate (paperback, Kindle), in which the means of interplanetary travel actually drives this space tale. In the following email interview, the iconic science fiction writer discusses what inspired this new novel, as well as her new but unrelated GMO-centric science fiction novella, Sea Change (paperback, Kindle).
It was inevitable that someone would write a science fiction story about genetically modified crops. But while more obvious authors would have the GMOs running amok and killing people like in some B-movie from the ’50s, or the ’80s, writer Nancy Kress is anything but obvious. In the following email interview, she not only discusses what inspired her new GMO-related sci-fi novella Sea Change (paperback, Kindle), but how looking into the real science behind GMOs influenced this story.