What Happens Next

When Reality May Be Worse Than FictionMy job as a science fiction writer is to reflect the world around me at the same time as extrapolate from the events of that world into an unknowable future. For weeks, since the release ofThe Furies’ Bog, I’ve been trying to continue the story, researching, and hoping to add chapters to a first draft I started in the summer. But it’s been difficult. The problem is that I usually write an embellished story with worst case scenarios, confident that this en...