![]() ![]() Several years ago, I was on a panel about literary influences with the great Tamora Pierce. Where did you get the idea for Martians Abroad and how different is the finished novel from that original concept? As you might expect, Earth is even weirder than she thought it would be, and adventures ensue. Polly is not happy about this at all, since she wants to be a starship pilot, and going to Earth feels like moving backwards. ![]() Martians Abroad is about Polly Newton and her twin brother Charles, third generation Martian colonists whose mother decides to send them to Earth for boarding school. If you make it something else, it will be something else.” It’s a sentiment writer Carrie Vaughn might agree with, especially given that her new space opera Martians Abroad ( hardcover, paperback, Kindle) was inspired by her somewhat mistaken memories of someone else’s sci-fi adventure tale. If you remember our trip as a few minutes, it will be a few minutes. Grove once said, “Memory is a tricky thing… It doesn’t just recall the past, it makes the past. ![]()
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