There’s no denying that Star Trek has had a big influence on a lot of the science fiction that followed in its wake. But in the following email interview about her new sci-fi novel What We Are Seeking (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), author Cameron Reed mentions that one of the influences is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that she found rather interesting but also somewhat unsatisfying.
When we talk about iconic cyberpunk stories, we usually mention Blade Runner, The Matrix, and the novels of William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, and Neal Stephenson. But we should also talk about Cameron Reed’s The Fortunate Fall, which took what Gibson et al. did and took the genre in a unique direction.
And maybe now we will, since Tor Books are releasing A Tor Essentials version of The Fortunate Fall (paperback, Kindle, audiobook), which augments the 1996 novel with a new intro by sci-fi writer Jo Walton [Tooth And Claw].
In the following email interview, Reed discusses what originally influenced this story, as well as why the main character has an implanted camera as opposed to just some snazzy video glasses.