The Starry Rift by Sharyn November

Author:Sharyn November
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2010-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

AUTHOR’S NOTE

The future hits all of us. In the West we’re used to feeling we’re the cutting edge and the future is going to be just like us. But this is a wired, small planet, and the new technology that catches on in Boston or Birmingham appears simultaneously on the streets of Bangalore and Beijing.

The future is not necessarily American or European. The future may be shaped as much by the CRIB group: China, Russia, India, Brazil—huge countries with huge populations developing at an incredible rate. It’s a big, thrilling planet out there, full of life, movement, passion, color. We’ve taught ourselves over the past few years to be afraid of it. The way to beat fear is understanding, and to understand we need to look outside ourselves.

I’ve been writing about a big, powerful, future hi-tech India in my book River of Gods and the Cyberabad sequence of stories, of which this is one. It’s a vast, endlessly fascinating country. But in the end, despite all the seeming strangenesses of Padmini and her world in “The Dust Assassin,” we are all people with the same needs and desires. There is no Third World: there is just One World.

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