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Stranger than Sci-Fi: Talking Plants – on BBC Radio 4
If you’re in Britain, you can hear me at 21:00 tomorrow, July 31, on BBC Radio 4, as part of the Stranger than Sci-Fi show’s…
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Plants that explode!
This is one of my houseplants, a yellow wood sorrel or Oxalis fontana, also called Oxalis stricta. It’s a fun plant because its seed pods…
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If I had won…
Rosewater by Tade Thompson won the Arthur C. Clarke Award today. Congratulations! My novel Semiosis was on the shortlist, and I’m deeply honored by that.…
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Digging up a novel
What’s it like to write a novel? Much has been said about it, perhaps too much, but let me add one more metaphor anyway: It’s…
Semiosis 