Writing a World in Glimpses
Two years ago, I wrote the short story that gave me my first glimpse into the Durga System. (It was published in the second volume of Bikes in Space, a fantastic series of feminist bicycle science fiction edited by Elly Blue.) In that story, Willem Jaantzen was the villain — but as I expanded on the premise of the original short story I became more and more fascinated by him and his crew. (If you've read Starfall, you've been introduced to Starla already; if you've read Negative Return you've gotten to meet Manu.) Since those books came out, I’ve written another…