I was thinking, well, how do I do this? How do I create a world?” “I’d never written anything that wasn’t strictly realist. “Like a good writing nerd, I did my homework,” Ng says. She also read more contemporary works, including Colson Whitehead’s zombie novel “Zone One” and Leni Zumas’ “Red Clocks,” a 2018 novel that imagines an America where abortion is banned and embryos have constitutional rights. Ng says she explored a lot of speculative fiction as she worked on the novel, including genre classics such as “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood and “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury.
And so, I felt like, let me lean into this and see what happens.”
“But when the outside world started to feel like it was a dystopia, it felt really strange to me to be imagining this nice little world in the book in which none of that was happening.
“We’d been seeing the rise of the far right for some time - that was already present, certainly before the election,” Ng says.
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