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Quofum by Alan Dean Foster – Interview
Quofum
by Alan Dean Foster
No TagBest-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.”
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