And the more I wrote this particular series, the more sort of reality caught up to what I was doing. If you’re thinking about climate, you’re going to have a thought that is relevant for today’s time. “So that was the initiating sort of thing that I was thinking about, but the funny thing is, if you’re thinking about ocean currents, you’re thinking about climate.
If ocean currents and ocean trade winds had just stopped, it would have been able to get to the new world, the new world would have been safe from Europe, and how would history have been different.” One day, it was about 2014, I was thinking about what would have happened to the European age of exploration, which was roughly from the 14th century to the 17th and 18th century. When you’re a science fiction author, you kind of take weird ideas from wherever and try to bring them up into the future. On what inspired The Last Emperox- “Weirdly enough, it had absolutely nothing to do with anything current. How are they dealing with it on a day-to-day basis? The section that I’m reading talks a little bit about how they’re dealing with the day-to-day aspects of getting through their life when we’re being told the world may change."īelow are the highlights from Inverse Happy Hour: And so, the part that I’m reading is: what are the common people doing during this time where the empire looks like it’s going to collapse. He also took the opportunity to do a special reading of his new book, offering this context for The Last Emperoxbefore diving in: "Usually the main characters are people at the high levels of society. Scalzi revealed what working with Star Trek actor Wil Wheaton, the narrator of his Interdependency audio books, is like why his high schoolmates are excused from reading his current writing his pre-writing rituals (spoiler alert: stay off Twitter if you want to get anything done) how he uses futuristic language as a vehicle for storytelling and his thoughts on Elon Musk and SpaceX. “There’s lots of politics, lots of personality conflicts, some explosions, some lasers, spaceships - you know, all the good stuff,” he tells Inverse. He joins Inverse Happy Hour to discuss the final book of the Interdependency trilogy and why, strangely enough, his story about the collapse of a once-great empire didn't start out as a metaphor for our current times.
John Scalzi is an award-winning science fiction author of many, many novels, including his latest work, The Last Emperox, available on (virtual) bookshelves now.
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