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Mur Lafferty | Murder She Wrote Meets Babylon 5
Author Guest / November 9, 2023

1–What is the title of your latest release? CHAOS TERMINAL – Midsolar Murders 2 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? “Murder She Wrote” Meets “Babylon 5” – an amateur sleuth is tired of people dying around her all the time and decides to appeal to a space station to live there, hoping that living among aliens will stop the deaths. It does, until more humans show up. Now, in Chaos Terminal, Mallory must investigate a murder on behalf of an old friend as an insidious force threatens the station and everyone aboard. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I wanted a place like Babylon 5, a diplomatic hub, but this time hesitant to let humans aboard. The aliens are peaceful, but don’t quite know what to do with this new, strange race they’ve discovered. Station Eternity is a sentient station, an alien herself, with her own personality and agency. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Probably not; murders happen around her all the time. It would be dangerous. 5–What are three words that describe your protagonist? Driven, frustrated, connected 6–What’s something you learned while writing this book? I…