As the last few years have made abundantly clear, fallacies can be dangerous when enough people believe they’re true. It’s an idea at the center of Sue Burke’s new hard sci-fi novel Dual Memory (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook). Except that, as she explains in the following email interview, the falsehood believed as fact that influenced this story isn’t one that came up in the last few years, but a real one many years ago.
In the following email interview, writer Sue Burke discusses how her political sci-fi novel Immunity Index (paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) takes place during a global pandemic, but was largely written before the Covid-19 outbreak. What’s interesting — or maybe “scary” is a better word — is that she also says that even if she had written it during lockdown, as opposed to before, it wouldn’t have actually been all that different.
In her 2018 sci-fi novel Semiosis, writer Sue Burke presented a first-contact novel, but one with a botanical twist. Now she’s concluding this story with the companion novel Interference (hardcover, paperback, Kindle). In the following email interview, Burke explains what inspired this second novel, what influenced it, and whether you should read the two back-to-back.
So, this is freaky: In talking to writer Sue Burke about her new science fiction novel Semiosis (hardcover, paperback, Kindle), she informed me that plants can be…aggressive? Seriously? I just hope the grass in front of my apartment spares my life long enough for me to read this space opera; from what Burke said about it, it sounds like a good read.