It takes fifty-eight light years for the message to reach Earth, then about a century and a half for humans to travel from Earth to Pax. You kind of just answered this, but is there a reason why Interference is set two hundred years after Semiosis as opposed to twenty years or two thousand years? As a result, Stevland makes discoveries that are more wonderful and horrible than he ever expected, and he fulfills one of his deepest ambitions. Then these Earthlings arrive with their new technology and unrealistic expectations, which upset everything. Meanwhile, life on Pax has been chugging along more or less okay, if by okay we mean no actual bloodshed. Naturally, when people on Earth receive the message, they decide they want to know what’s happened with the colony - or rather, a few people on Earth are looking for any reason to go elsewhere, so they head for Pax. Let’s start with a plot overview: What is Interference about, and how does it connect, both narratively and chronologically, to Semiosis?Īs you may recall from Chapter 1 of Semiosis, a satellite sent a message back to Earth saying the colony had been established. In the following email interview, Burke explains what inspired this second novel, what influenced it, and whether you should read the two back-to-back. Now she’s concluding this story with the companion novel Interference ( hardcover, paperback, Kindle). In her 2018 sci-fi novel Semiosis, writer Sue Burke presented a first-contact novel, but one with a botanical twist.
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