Goodreads asked K.S. Nikakis:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

K.S. Nikakis I've got a few projects in process at the moment but have just finished editing The Third Moon which I hope will be my first ebook launched later this year.

I like the idea of inherited memories, that is, the idea that memories are stored in our genes like our hair colour, height etc. The notion of inherited memories floated about in my brain for some time and then one of my students (I run a writing and publishing degree) coerced me into doing NaNoWriMo (you have to write 50,000 words in the month of November). Boy was that hard, but The Third Moon (with lots of editing) was the result. It tells the story of Warrain, a young man of aboriginal descent who lives thousands of years in the future as a Settler on another planet. Warrain carries the inherited memories of his ancestor's dispossession and when his community on the new planet are again dispossessed, he plots revenge.

The Third Moon is about Warrain's reaching of maturity but also what it is to gain a sense of belonging, and what the Settlers (as invaders themselves) owe the planet's indigenous life forms.

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