KAI COULD FEEL the morning heat spilling through Rosie’s hatch cover, flooding his cocoon.
This opening sentence of Chapter 5 is the first sentence I ever wrote for THE MOTHER CODE—and it may be the only one that stayed entirely the same throughout years of editing and rewrites! What is now Chapter 5 used to be Chapter 1, and what is now Chapter 1 was originally a short Prologue. This is all to say that Kai's birth and early childhood were the most important things on my mind when I started writing the book. The adult intrigue that led to Kai's situation became important to me only later, as I pondered how he came to be born to a robot Mother, and what challenges he and his Mother might have to face in the future.
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