How do we make sense of the new on that scale? The obsession is to make sense of everything, somehow. It’s a completely different kind of experience. It ties into the way we like to comprehend life, to imagine we understand it through the filters we apply – to say, ‘Wow, this holiday is just like the time we went to –“ Except Penelope’s holiday through the universe can’t really be like any of those times. I was really thinking about the desire to categorise our experiences, memories and stories with recognisable labels, so those characters are all involved in that process, in one way or another. In the novel obsession seems to follow a lot of the central characters such as Hort, The Rampion and Penelope who all seem to deal with theirs in different ways. The cover is magnificent though, so I’d recommend starting there, and then deciding whether you want to read about plants and planets, and trying to save the world armed only with a piece of alien technology you don’t really understand, and some orange string. Whenever I try to explain one of my plots to somebody they get a concerned look in their eyes. So how would you book-tempt someone into reading Greensmith? Aliya kindly agreed to answer a few question on the book, science fiction and her other future work This week I’ve been wowed by Greensmith by Aliya Whiteley and the strange cosmic journey it takes on.
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