Extrait :
SFFWRTCHT: Your career was launched with the success of Beggars In Spain, which won you a Hugo. You later converted it to a novel. It’s the story of a genemod a woman named Leisha Camden who’s sleepless and is stuck between two competing worlds. Where’d that idea come from?
NK: This one I know where it came from: envy. I invented the Sleepless because I need a lot of sleep and resent that.
SFFWRTCHT: Did you always envision a novel version or expand it later?
NK: I never envision novel versions of my shorter work until the work is done and I think “Oh, there is more to that story!”
SFFWRTCHT: How long after the “Beggars in Spain” novella was completed, did you make that decision to turn it into a full length novel?
NK: I expanded it about six months later because I felt the story wasn’t anywhere near done.