The American Mythology

Dia: I think it's partly to do with my country size and its character, a reductive and imperfect metric. We don't really grow up with mysterious unseen spaces. Unlike the US, something like space travel isn't part of our national story. You have to align the fantastical with the prosaic to get people to give you a chance. Once you've got them hooked, then you can be more playful and creative. Sadly, we don't do genre fiction over here anymore, save for who.