With his new novel For The First Time, Again (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Sylvain Neuvel is concluding the Take Them To The Stars trilogy he launched in 2021 with A History Of What Comes Next and continued in 2022 with Until The Last Of Me. In the following email interview, Neuvel discusses what inspired and influenced this finale, as well as how he concludes this story.
In the movie Hidden Figures, and the book by Margot Lee Shetterly that inspired it, we see how women at NASA were instrumental during the ’60s space race. Which is kind of what Sylvain Neuvel’s sci-fi trilogy Take Them To The Stars is about…if you swapped human women for alien ones. In the following email interview, Neuvel discusses this series’ second installment, Until The Last Of Me (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
Often times when aliens invade Earth to manipulate us, it’s for some nefarious reason. But in Sylvain Neuvel Take Them To The Stars trilogy of novellas, the aliens are actually on our side. In the following email interview about the first installment, A History of What Comes Next (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), Neuvel talks about what inspired and influenced this story and this series, and talks about where the latter is going from here.
With Only Human (hardcover, Kindle), writer Sylvain Neuvel is bringing to a close The Themis Files, the trilogy of epistolary sci-fi novels about giant alien robots buried beneath the Earth that he started with 2016’s Sleeping Giants and continued with 2017’s Waking Gods. But in the following email interview about this final chapter, he reveals that these books would’ve been very different if his kid had a say in their plotting.