![]() ![]() So my characters always get a happy ending, meaning my settings can’t be too bleak. My books are all love stories, whether set in the not so distant future, or on a snowy road in upstate New York. ![]() But the challenge of it, the puzzle, is one of my favourite aspects of writing science fiction. I’m not sure anyone could actually live there. In the film, the crew of the Endurance are quick to dismiss Miller’s Planet-and why not? They have a couple of alternatives, and they really don’t have the time to figure out how to live there. Then there’s Gargantua, the black hole hovering just off the horizon. Then the wave comes, taller than the tallest buildings in New York City, destroying everything in its perpetual journey around the globe. Who wants to live in on a planet where not only is time severely dilated-to the point where a year on the surface would mean all of your friends in orbit are dead-but there is no land? There’s a surface, and sometimes it’s only ankle deep. I might not have been the only person in the audience for Interstellar watching the incoming tidal wave on Miller’s Planet and thinking-how could we make this place work? But I was probably one of a very small handful. ![]() Today we welcome Kelly Jensen to the blog with a guest post on writing her new LGBT novel, To See the Sun, out now from Riptide Publishing. ![]()
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