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A parasitic flower
Although it grows in a wide range in Asia, North American, and northern South America, you might not easily find a Monotropa uniflora, a wildflower…
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Imagine a wall, and begin the story…
How do novels begin? In the acknowledgments to Semiosis, I wrote: “I owe thanks to Gregory Frost, whose writing exercise about a special kind of…
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My new houseplants are hungry
You may have noticed that the covers of Semiosis and Usurpation depict actual Earth plants. The tentacle on Semiosis belongs to a sundew, probably a…
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‘Sentience will prevail’
This is the cover of Usurpation, the third book in the Semiosis trilogy. Notice the tagline: “Sentience will prevail.” There were taglines for the first…
Semiosis 