So I think theme and tone is a big thing. You know that when you’re going to go watch a James Bond film, for example, or you’re going to go watch a Star Trek film or show, you’re going to get a certain something. I think about Star Wars or Star Trek or Babylon 5 or any of these big franchises, and usually there’s a certain feel associated with that franchise. What do you think makes a really good connected or extended shared universe? But this book itself has what it needs to have.ĭo you have plans for, not necessarily a sequel, but other stories that take place within the same connected universe? With that said, there is lots of material within the universe and within that setting that I want to write about and have plans for that isn’t in this book. It’s a book that is stuffed to the gills with stuff, and hopefully readers will enjoy all of that stuff. So no, everything I wanted to put in the story is in the story.
I actually had a unique experience with editing with this book where my editors at Tor, along with the other changes I was making, general revisions and copy edits… They actually had me add about 30,000 words of material to the book as I was revising, which I’ve never had that experience before. No, I told the story of what I wanted to tell. Were there any things that you maybe didn’t want to get rid of or cut to make the story fit into one tome that you had to get rid of? If so, how did you deal with that? The ironic thing is that it actually didn’t really take me any less time to write To Sleep than if I had broken it up and just done two or three novels. So when thinking about what I wanted to do next, was like, “Well, I’d rather write a self contained story and then move onto something new.” And also I wanted to get that experience for readers of not having to wait for years and years for the next volume.
To sleep.in a sea of stars series#
That became increasingly important to me the longer I worked on The Inheritance Cycle, because I didn’t finish that series until the end of 2011, and then I was touring for it mid to late 2012. At the time, I wasn’t sure if it was going to be a self contained story or series, but very early on, I decided that yes, it was going to be a one book story. I had the idea for the story first and the idea first came about in 2006, 2007. Which came first for you, did you already have an idea that you wanted to write in science-fiction? Or did you have the idea of a whole story in one book, then decide that science fiction would fit with that idea in mind? So yeah, science fiction felt like a very natural fit. That’s a large chunk of one’s life to be put into one project. And I was also wanting a change from fantasy after working on The Inheritance Cycle for about 12 years, from 15 to 26/27. And I just love the possibilities of science fiction, and I love how a lot of science fiction talks about the future of humanity, especially as we may be moving off this planet and exploring the rest of the universe.
My mom was a fantasy reader, so I kind of got both genres from them. My dad was and is a huge science fiction fan. So for me, it was a very natural transition. Christopher Paolini: I grew up reading as much science fiction as fantasy.
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