Alex Kingsley has interviewed me about the Semiosis trilogy for Interstellar Flight Magazine. You can read the interview here.
One of the questions: Would you trust Stevland if you lived on Pax?
Stevland is all alone, the last of his species. Even here on Earth, some plants are social creatures, just like humans. For humans, solitary confinement is torture, and Stevland suffers the same way. He has abandonment issues and other mental health problems, so although he means well and he has a moral compass, his deep-seated anxieties get in the way. And he knows, at least unconsciously, that if he loses his new community, his humans, he cannot survive, so he will do anything to keep them. Anything, even if it violates his moral compass.
Semiosis 