![]() Setting war and accident aside, people can expect to live in fair health, and to participate in and actively contribute to their society-up until the moment some part of their physiology suffers catastrophic breakdown. In this story, the premise is that health care is at the point where most of the debilities of old age, both physical and intellectual, have been greatly reduced. How do you think the many years they’d lived (and what they’d seen) contributed to their reactions under pressure? There’s an interesting focus on the age of Jayne and the other women of her team in the story. ![]() So I just kept throwing ideas at the page until I had enough to create a story for my chosen setting. I knew I wanted to tackle a story that was hard SF, and set off Earth, so why not on one of Jupiter’s moons? I have a bad habit of starting story development with setting instead of plot, and that’s what happened here. The moons of Jupiter were on my mind because I’d just finished reading Piers Anthony’s Bio of a Space Tyrant, Volume 1, Refugee. Why did you choose the Jupiter system to set this particular story in? In your story “Nightside on Callisto,” four female soldiers face an unexpected conflict. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!. ![]()
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