For this she is somewhat reviled by the people in her world, is not even considered to be a person in fact. She can also tailor-make these diseases to suite specific targets. She can then synthesize this information into poisons, prions, viruses and venoms. Lil’it is a genetic mutation who looks human enough, but is able to taste these genetic stories that live in blood, skin, and tissue. What’s the most distinctive thing about the main character? Who-real or fictional-would you say the character reminds you of? And there are people out there who make it their business to sell or even control what stories are told. In a nutshell, we’re all made of stories. In a way that DNA has its own beginning, its own end, and we create narratives that etch themselves into that strand via mutation and adaptation. Your DNA is written and rewritten in endless loops. It grew out of this idea of information and how we control it, and how much of biology is all about information. What inspired you to write the book? A particular person? An event? Think Grimm’s Fairy Tales meet The Andromeda Strain, written on a double helix. What’s the book about? Give us the “pitch”.īLOOM is two intertwined stories, one part plague-horror, one part fantasy. “It was the second dead body I’d ever seen in my life, but the first outside the formal surroundings of a funeral.” The book is BLOOM: Or, the unwritten memoir of Tennyson Middlebrook. What is the name of the book and when was it published?
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