She, like the others, could only slightly feel the edge of some thoughts, and some memories. It was better that way, they all agreed.

Novelists Malka Older and Jennifer Marie Brissett discuss the ins and outs of writing speculative fiction

“It had always been that one of Norton’s fondest dreams—the dream, I think, of many brilliant and overextended men—was that one month, or one year, he’d find himself in a warm place with absolutely no commitments.”