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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There a Future in Sci-Fi?

In the Harry Turtledove alternative fiction series, aliens invade Earth during World War II. Ginger turns out to be a cocaine-like substance for them and becomes a key plot point. It's interesting the idea of having an element X going in both directions. If they're well-rendered, you end up with two element Xs or two civilizations reacting to the sudden imposition of an element X.

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