Ask the Author: Doc Honour
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Doc Honour
The best thing about being a science fiction writer is the ability to explore current human problems by envisioning a future world where they highlight. I write the future to illuminate today. That's very different than the fantasy genre (often conflated with sci-fi), where the goal is to more to escape to strange worlds with exciting events. My stories, although placed in the future, are very much grounded in today.
Doc Honour
The next book in my queue is "Tales of Verdant," a series of thirteen short stories placed on Verdant, with a looming global war that may destroy the planet. Yet people continue to live. Eleven stories are done; two to go!
Doc Honour
I've long been bothered by the common science fiction trope of cohesive worlds, in which each world is treated like a city-state. Arrakis, the desert world. Hoth, the ice planet. Trantor, the city world. Real worlds aren't like that! So in "Not Like Us," I explored what would happen if the humans on a future world were as fractionated as humans are today on Earth.
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