There’s only one instance where that didn’t happen, where I had a sentence pop up in my head unbidden, which was the beginning of a story called ‘Beatrice’. After a while something comes up – an image, a sentence, a scene, or the basic plot for a story. I’ll find a scene, or a word, or a sentence, and explore that – sort of walk around it, sniff it, trying to figure out how it works. I basically tell the stories that go on in my head. I don’t think about how the reader is going to react. ‘‘I don’t think about the reader when I write. I’m fine with them categorizing it as science fiction, or fantasy, or weird fiction, or surrealism.”
But to be honest, I’m not too eager or bothered to categorize it as any genre. It may look like science fiction, but it might as well be portal fiction or weird fiction in a science fiction jumpsuit. ‘‘The premise, to me, might not be science fiction at all. It’s about the power of names, the power of language, and also about how poetry can upset the order of things.”
It’s about revolting against that order.
It’s about what happens to a community when they try to survive in a world like this, what kind of order they build, how the situation controls their language, and what it does to their mindsets. Matter is literally controlled by language. ‘‘My novel Amatka is about people colonizing a world that responds to language.
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