It provides the ultimate writing challenge and the ultimate freedom. SF gives you so much imaginative freedom but makes you work incredibly hard to pull it off. Mark: What is the attraction for you as a writer in terms of being able to write SF? Clarke, William Gibson, Vernor Vinge, Octavia Butler.

Michener (The Drifters), J-P Satre and Simone de Beauvoir, Carlos Castenada, A.C. Marianne: My reading influences are unashamedly eclectic and went (chronologically) something like this: Zane Grey, D.H Lawrence, James A. Mark: Influences and early genre interests? SF seemed to be the only place I could combine all the things I loved in books. Marianne: I meandered my way as a reader through boy’s own adventure stories and girlie romance, on through literary fiction, splashing down into the vast pits of epic fantasy. In Dark Space the mining planet of Araldis is a direct extrapolation of my time living in the iron ore mining town, Paraburdoo (Place of the White Cockatoo). In the Parrish series it is very definitely another character. I have a very strong connection with the physical landscape of Australia. After that I have a couple of years on a sub-tropical island.

Then I spent my twenties in an outback mining town in the far north of Western Australia. I grew up on a wheat and sheep farm in the central wheatbelt area of the state. I’m a big believer myself in the idea that our experiences in our formative years affect our futures (and in the case of writers, their need to write as well as their writing!) Would you say that Western Australia was an influence on you in that way? You were born and brought up in Western Australia. Mark: Hello Marianne! Welcome to a different area of SFFWorld – Many thanks for agreeing to this interview.īackground first. Hobbit caught up with her as her latest book, Dark Space, was released in the UK. Her first series of books introduced us to Parrish Plessis in a trilogy of fast-moving, post-apocalyptic cyberpunk. Marianne de Pierres is one of the rising stars in SF.

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