First, I wrote a short story, which is Chapter 1. It took me a while, though, to collect ideas about how I could dramatize that fact. This is why roses have thorns: to anchor into other plants and climb over them. The original idea was simple: I had observed my houseplants attacking each other, and after a little research, I discovered that plants routinely fight to the death over access to sunlight. Where did you get the idea for Semiosis, and how different is the finished novel from that original idea? But the humans can’t go back to Earth, so they have to try to find a way to live in their new home as they continue to face additional challenges to their survival. Some of those life forms welcome them, others want them dead. Soon they discover other intelligent life. In a basic sense, what is Semiosis about?Ī small group of Earthlings set up a colony on a distant planet. So, this is freaky: In talking to writer Sue Burke about her new science fiction novel Semiosis ( hardcover, paperback, Kindle), she informed me that plants can be…aggressive? Seriously? I just hope the grass in front of my apartment spares my life long enough for me to read this space opera from what Burke said about it, it sounds like a good read.
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