Caitlin Demaris McKenna
Hi Ella!
This is a tough question to answer, because there were several influences! I started the story in part as a subversion of common alien invasion story tropes that present humans as the Good Guys fighting against inexplicably hostile aliens. It seems like this is the plot of so many stories where aliens and humans clash, but it seems to me it wouldn't really be that simple. Any intelligent beings necessarily have to have motivations and values just as we do, even though they'd likely be different than ours. I took influence from more nuanced stories involving human-alien contact and conflict, such as the Star Trek universe, the Mass Effect video game series, and Iain M Banks' Culture novels to create the Expansion universe.
This is a tough question to answer, because there were several influences! I started the story in part as a subversion of common alien invasion story tropes that present humans as the Good Guys fighting against inexplicably hostile aliens. It seems like this is the plot of so many stories where aliens and humans clash, but it seems to me it wouldn't really be that simple. Any intelligent beings necessarily have to have motivations and values just as we do, even though they'd likely be different than ours. I took influence from more nuanced stories involving human-alien contact and conflict, such as the Star Trek universe, the Mass Effect video game series, and Iain M Banks' Culture novels to create the Expansion universe.
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