Goodreads asked Terri Favro:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Terri Favro Growing up in the Niagara region of Canada during the Cold War, kids were always told that if there was a nuclear war, we'd be the first to go because the Niagara Falls hydro station powered the entire eastern seaboard of North America. (We were a first strike target, according to Popular Science magazine.) Fortunately, we escaped the fate predicted by the grownups. As a an adult, I began to think about an "alternative timeline" story, in which such a war actually did occur...and how one girl saved her world by collapsing her timeline and sending everyone in it into ours. Yet she herself has no real place here–– she is a girl with no past. It's the type of storyline you might have seen in a superhero comic or a sci fi novel of the 60s or 70s. Although fictional, in Sputnik's Children, I tried to convey the emotional experience of a childhood lived in that particular time and place.

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