I love it, and it’s something that I’ve always wanted to write.” It tells us what could be, what we might accomplish as a species, and can serve as both hope and warning. To me, science fiction is the fiction of the future. On the transition from fantasy to sci-fi - “I grew up reading as much sci-fi as fantasy as a kid. It’s obvious that it was built and she’s just sort of looking around, taking in this artificial chamber that was not built by humans.īelow are the highlights from Inverse Happy Hour: She’s been out on her survey, and she has fallen into a cave that shouldn’t be there, and the cave is very much artificial. if you're looking for some great paranoid dystopian sci-fi,” which was followed by a special reading from an early chapter of his new book (which you can pre-order here), but not before he set the scene: My main character is a woman by the name of Keira and she is on an alien moon that’s being surveyed for a potential calling.
He also took the opportunity to recommend one of his “all-time top 10 pieces of media. In a Q&A, Paolini reveals why he chose to delve into sci-fi this time around the advice he has for young writers just starting out (he was a teen himself when he started to write Eragon) the odds of an Eragon film reboot (Arya is a Disney princess now.), his self-isolation wizard beard, and when fans can expect the fifth book of the Inheritance Cycle (it's coming). “I hope it's my best effort at writing a love letter to that genre,” he says.
Le Guin, all of which he credits as inspiration.
It's a departure from the style of fantasy writing he's known for but will surely delight fans of Ridley Scott's Alien, Dune, the Hyperion Cantos series, Ray Bradbury, and Ursula K. He's also a guest on Inverse Happy Hour where he dives into his latest work, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. Christopher Paolini is well known in the fantasy world for his beloved series, Inheritance Cycle, that tells the story of a young boy named Eragon who stumbles upon a dragon egg in the forest.
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