![]() I did research on how spaceships would work, how warfare could work in zero-G, and where our technology would go in those areas. Paolini: I read a lot of science fiction but I wanted to do certain things with the technology in "To Sleep in a Sea Of Stars," and that was a challenge for me. : Where did your worldbuilding and research process take you on this project? It's a big playground for telling lots of different types of stories. It encompasses the real world of all known history, the deep past, and far future. Anything I write that's not explicitly fantasy will be something I write in the Fractalverse from hereon. ![]() I gave myself the luxury of doing that because "To Sleep in a Sea Of Stars" is set in the real world in a setting that I'm calling the Fractalverse. This is my love letter to sci-fi and I snuck in a lot of references to classic science fiction. During the survey, she ends up finding something that she shouldn't and her discovery sends the story racing off on this grand adventure. Biologist Kira Navarez is helping inspect an alien moon in preparation for a human colony. Paolini: It's a science fiction adventure full of alien planets and spaceships and lasers and heartache and explosions and, of course, tentacles. ![]() : Can you take us on a quick jet around the plot of your new book? We have SpaceX landing rockets on platforms so yeah! I'm very excited.Ĭhristopher Paolini (Image credit: Tor Books) I'm very optimistic about the future, and yes we face a lot of challenges as a species, but we've accomplished amazing things in the past 30 years and we're doing some fantastic stuff right now. Since that's not possible at the moment, writing about it was the next best option, and that's what drove me to write "To Sleep in a Sea Of Stars." If there were an option to get into a rocket and go start exploring the galaxy I'd do that. I'm massively curious about the universe around us. In the real world, it's important that humanity ultimately gets off planet Earth and establishes settlements elsewhere in the solar system and spreads throughout the Milky Way. Fantasy is often a backward-looking, nostalgic genre, where sci-fi is a very forward-looking genre and I enjoy that. To me, sci-fi and fantasy are very similar in that they're both speculative fiction and often deal with invented settings, invented social structures, and imaginary physics. My dad is an old-school sci-fi fan and he had me watching the original "Star Trek" series and "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "The Prisoner," "Babylon 5," all the good stuff. : What were the origins of your first sci-fi novel and why did you choose this epic story?Ĭhristopher Paolini: I grew up reading as much science fiction as fantasy.
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