"It's an honor, absolutely. I thank so much for having me," she says. "We were doing mostly just yo journalism and some, you know, some culture, a investigation tech culture stuff." But there wasn't a lot that we were seeing anyways, in in terms of speculave fiction, they say. It seemed like a ripe moment for specular fiction to come help make sense of it. So clare and i started talking, and i just decided to make a full go of it".