The Question That Changed My Novel
When I began writing What the Stars Encoded, I thought I knew what kind of story it would be. I knew the disease. I knew the cure. I thought I was writing a hopeful novel. It became something else.
Read more →Essays on the real science behind What the Stars Encoded — TRAPPIST-1e, quantum computing, genetic engineering, and the unexpected questions that emerge when a surgeon writes science fiction.
When I began writing What the Stars Encoded, I thought I knew what kind of story it would be. I knew the disease. I knew the cure. I thought I was writing a hopeful novel. It became something else.
Read more →Forty light-years from Earth, a dim red dwarf is orbited by seven rocky worlds — the largest family of Earth-sized planets ever discovered around a single star. TRAPPIST-1e wasn't a creative choice for the novel. It was the obvious one. Here's what the actual science says.
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