It’s arrogant to think that we are the only life in the universe. But “life” takes many different forms, and it’s likely that, on some planets, that life will simply be single-celled organisms.
It’s that kind of life at the center of author Jane Mondrup’s hard science fiction / science fantasy novel Zoi (paperback, Kindle). Except that, unlike unicellular organisms found on Earth, the one in her sci-fi story is big enough to give people rides around the galaxy.
In the following email interview, Mondrup talks about what inspired and influenced this sci-fi story — and no, that amoeba episode of Star Trek isn’t one of them.