Quofum by Alan Dean Foster – Interview

Quofum by Alan Dean Foster

Best-selling SF author Alan Dean Foster told SCI FI Wire that his new novel, Quofum, deals with a planet where evolution has run riot and makes no sense.

“Consequently, I had to develop not just one evolutionary sequence, but multiples,” Foster said in an interview. “This required more than the usual amount of research into related disciplines: biology, zoology, etc. … It’s difficult enough to create a single alien ecology. Trying to invent multiples–and unrelated ones at that–and still having them all co-exist and work together scientifically on the same world really strains the invention part of the cortex.”

Quofum by Alan Dean Foster – Interview.