Form/Function

[eredien]

From an interview with Justina Robson, an author I've never heard of but whose next book I intend to pick up:

"JR: It [her next book, Natural History] is [space opera], and it was a lot more fun to write. It is a lot less soul-wrenching and hair-ripping than the others. It has a lighter tone, I think, but it still has some of the same old undercurrents. The main question is whether you are locked into your physical identity because of your physical form. Whether you can still possess a human identity if you are some sort of radically different gigantic cyborg type of creature that lives among the stars. The book is due out next spring."

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[wayman.livejournal.com]

I'm often amazed by the number of authors I've never heard of who we've had interviews with. Many of the ones I think of as obscure are from the U.K., where they seem reasonably well known. This too surprises me, as I hadn't thought national barriers continued to play such a large role in regionalizing literary popularity within the English-speaking world in this modern Internet-connected, Harry Potter-and-Neil Gaiman-ized era. I'm glad we can give some of these authors a bit more exposure to American audiences.