I was a biology major in college, and took the usual classes covering physiology, cell structure, evolution, ecology, and it was fascinating stuff.
I find nanotechnology fascinating from the bio perspective, in that we-all living things-are built up from tiny components. I see the pressure suits and air skins as a kind of biotechnology that adapts and extends the tricks of living organisms. Is that what makes up the pressure suits and air skins sealing in the igloo? Will you tell us a little about your fascination with this kind of tech? Much of your science fiction output touches on nanotechnology. If they were the sort to panic when things went wrong, that would be well known by the time they neared the century mark, and they wouldn’t have been selected for the mission. So once we’ve eliminated the health factors that tend to isolate older people, what we have left are elderly like those in the story: people who have been through a lot, and have had time to reflect on why they’re here and what they want to leave behind. Setting war and accident aside, people can expect to live in fair health, and to participate in and actively contribute to their society-up until the moment some part of their physiology suffers catastrophic breakdown. In this story, the premise is that health care is at the point where most of the debilities of old age, both physical and intellectual, have been greatly reduced. How do you think the many years they’d lived (and what they’d seen) contributed to their reactions under pressure? There’s an interesting focus on the age of Jayne and the other women of her team in the story. So I just kept throwing ideas at the page until I had enough to create a story for my chosen setting. I knew I wanted to tackle a story that was hard SF, and set off Earth, so why not on one of Jupiter’s moons? I have a bad habit of starting story development with setting instead of plot, and that’s what happened here. The moons of Jupiter were on my mind because I’d just finished reading Piers Anthony’s Bio of a Space Tyrant, Volume 1, Refugee. Why did you choose the Jupiter system to set this particular story in? In your story “Nightside on Callisto,” four female soldiers face an unexpected conflict. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.
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