There are times where I've jumped the rails.
And that's not where Binti comes from either.Ī lot of times in science fiction, there's the scientifically correct, the scientifically possible, and then something will jump the rails. That's not the kind of background I come from. The main part of the story is the idea of leaving home to explore something, but not in that way where the only way you can grow is to cut off your past and to cut off your family and become something else. She wanted to go to this university, and she brought her home, her culture, with her. That always bugged me, because she didn't abandon her home. I've had discussions with reviewers about this. But when I thought about it, I was like, no, she's totally gonna go home. I could've easily had this next part be her at the university. It was more me dealing with the realism of Binti, dealing with who she is and what kind of family she comes from and what her background is. Were you trying to get back to Earth as soon as possible?
Once I sat down and started imagining the finest university in the galaxy, it was intense and immense.īut Binti: Home, the new novella, takes place a year later as Binti returns home. I'm thinking about the idea of what life would be like outside of our context. It's not so much that I'm thinking about the diversity of Earth creatures. So when I'm thinking about aliens, my brain goes wild. Creatures outside of Earth-that's new territory for me. WIRED Book Club: A Trip Inside the Mind of Jeff VanderMeer Arrowĭoes your fascination with Earth's critters explain the diversity of lifeforms we see at *Binti'*s Oomza University?
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