Jonathan
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C.A. Higgins:
What was your inspiration behind writing Lightless and how did you come up with ideas for anything from big events to small notions?
C.A. Higgins
Lightless came about from a physics class where we were talking about equations of state and particles in a box. For an ideal gas, at least, if you have a group of gas particles in a box and you make the box smaller, the particles flip out and start running into the walls. If you make the box colder, the particles slow down and huddle together. In a way, the particles act like little people. That image combined with some other ideas I had in mind (about sentient ships and interrogations) and gave those ideas structure. A lot of my ideas come from seeing patterns like that: either randomly, or because I'm working to build one.
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Michael Daigh
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C.A. Higgins:
Despite the allusion to initial conditions, (which I loved...it's the sort of thing I focus on when writing about historiography in the Age of Newton), this book seemed to me like an end-ordered narrative; satisfyingly, poetically, mechanical. To what extent was the destination in mind at the beginning? Was there a dependency, unplanned, on initial conditions?
Jera Em
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C.A. Higgins:
Hello! I've really been loving your books and I'm looking forward to the third in the Lightless series. I was wondering, however, if you knew whether the alternate cover for Supernova was available anywhere or if it never came to fruition? I was just wondering since it matched the original cover of Lightless pretty well. Thanks a bunch and happy writing!
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