![]() ![]() ![]() Immunity Index ( 2021) understands Near Future America, riven by Pandemic and governed irresponsibly (see Politics), as having plunged into Dystopia.īurke has for many years been active as a translator of sf and other forms of Fantastika from the Spanish, including Angélica Gorodischer's Prodigies ( 1994 trans 2015), and many individual stories by various authors. The native sentient plants similarly must learn to cope with insanely accelerated animal entities. Her first novel, Semiosis ( 2018) together with a sequel Interference ( 2019) form a duology ambitiously interfusing speculations in molecular Biology with elements of the Planetary Romance as human settlers on the planet Pax, which is already transfigured by marks of some form of sentience (see Gaia Colonization of Other Worlds Life on Other Worlds), learn over seven generations how to become commensal with beings initially misapprehended as vegetable. ![]() Immunity Index blends Orphan Black with Contagion in a terrifying outbreak scenario. She began publishing work of genre interest with "Poet for Hire" in The Czamina Kid and Other Weird Tales: Mr Mike's First Milwaukee Omnibus (anth 1995) edited by Michael G Corenthal, though she had already worked for some time as a journalist and editor. Sue Burke, author of Semiosis and Interference, gives readers a new near-future, hard sf novel. Sue Burkes sweeping, award-finalist, SF Semiosis epic continues in Interference as the colonists and a team from Earth confront a new and more implacable intelligence. (1955- ) US journalist, editor, translator and author resident in Spain for at least seventeen years, until 2017. ![]()
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