Edie Sha'nim believed she and her bodyguard lover, Finn, could find refuge from the tyranny of the Crib empire by fleeing to the Fringe worlds. But Edie's extraordinary cypherteck ability to manipulate the ecology of evolving planets makes her far too valuable to lose. Recaptured and forced to cooperate - or else she will watch Finn die - Edie is shocked to discover the Crib's new breed of cypherteck: children. She cannot stand by while the oppressors enslave the innocent, nor can she resist the lure of Scarabaeus, the first world she tried to save, when researchers discover what appears to be an evolving intelligence.
But escape - for Edie, for Finn, and for the exploited young - will require the ultimate sacrifice... and a shocking act of rebellion with universe-shattering consequences.
Voici un extrait de son interview :
Plus de détails iciABK: Tell us a little about yourself to start off.
SC: I write science fiction for Harper Voyager and my second book, Children of Scarabaeus, comes out in March. I just moved back to Australia from Tucson, Arizona, after 5 years—my husband is an American and I’m a Brit-born Aussie, and we decided raise our daughter here, closer to her young cousins. Other than writing, I also work part-time at an online job for DAZ3D, a 3D art company.
ABK: Who is your favorite all-time protagonist and why?
SC: Ripley from Aliens. I don’t usually go for kick-ass heroines because they tend to annoy me, but I just love her attitude. And really, Ripley isn’t kick-ass. She’s a survivor. She does whatever it takes to survive and to save what she cares about.
ABK: Same question as above, but for your favorite Antagonist.
SC: Hans Gruber from Die Hard, because he’s an honest bad guy -- he’s unapologetically greedy. Unfortunately, now I can never watch Alan Rickman in anything else without hearing that voice… “Shoot the glass!”
ABK: What inspired you to write your first novel (published or unpublished)? What got you started?
SC: About ten years ago I left my job at a publishing house to become a freelance editor, and moved to the country. I had some time on my hands and I guess being in a new environment put me in a different frame of mind, too. I’d been writing half-finished short stories and character studies and plot outlines—a big mess of ideas. One day I melded a couple of disparate ideas into the same story outline and it generated a stack of new ideas, and that eventually turned into the first draft of Song of Scarabaeus. Until that point, I’d never considered writing a novel. The entire process was too mysterious to me and I didn’t think I could do it.
