There’s a joke about people on drugs saying spacy things like, “Oooooooooh, look at the colors.” But imagine if, instead, colors were weaponized; “Aaaaaaaaa! Look at the colors!”
It’s how Argentina won the Falklands War in Paz Pardo’s alt-history sci-fi allegory / police procedural novel The Shamshine Blind (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Pardo explains how being under the weather inspired this multilayered mash-up.