“I am interested in exploring … how the past and the future collide with the present.” Micheal Zapata plays with many genres in his novel – The Lost Book of Adana Moreau. ” History reaches out towards the present almost as if it is another world…Science fiction does the same, but going the other way…What attracted me to reading science fiction and literary fiction is the question of ‘what if’. I think that is a question built in to human curiosity, built into our cultural traditions.”
On writing characters first. ” I think back to how I wrote for the stage. You just have to have someone show up.
I always imagined Paradise will be a kind of library.
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