Fran asked Ada Hoffmann:

Where do you go to get inspiration for your new book The Fallen? (P.S. super excited to read it once it comes out!)

Ada Hoffmann I don't tend to get inspiration from physical places, but I've been doing some reading to get thoughts going on some of the book's themes, especially recovery from natural disasters. Rebecca Solnit's "A Paradise Built in Hell" and Donna J. Haraway's "Staying With The Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene" have both been particularly thought-provoking. (As was Erving Goffman's "Asylums," but it goes in parentheses because it didn't turn out to have as much to do with the book as I thought it would - just a thought-provoking read based on my other interests.)

Of course, a lot of my inspiration for this one comes from the fact that I wrote the last one and I love these characters! So that means a lot of the inspiration comes naturally, from thoughts I had about them and the world they live in that there wasn't enough room to explore in The Outside. There'll be a lot more development of Yasira and Tiv's relationship, Elu and Akavi's new partnership, Yasira's recovery from the trauma she experienced in The Outside, Enga's feelings about her partners in crime having run away, everyday life in the Chaos Zone, the history of the Morlock War, and more.

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