![]() After all, fathead minnows develop a mucous-secreting pad on their heads, used to rub clean a spot under a rock suitable for eggs to be laid. Though perhaps they were a sign of what was to enter my life. ![]() I set out to study the evolution of animal communication, starting with chemical signals and their role in the reproductive behaviour of fathead minnows ( Pimephales promelas ). I didn’t set out to write Esen-alit-Quar, Esen for short, Es in a hurry or between dear friends. What these things had in common? Two authors, each going where they hadn’t before, both to discover it was the best direction of all. It concerned a character who was, well, a blob of well-intentioned blue goo, liable to explode under stress. Twenty years ago, when my host, John Scalzi, started this amazing blog of his, my second novel was published by DAW Books. They all have a role in her novel, Search Image. ![]() ![]() Czerneda tackles the subjects of time, memory, intelligence, friendship. ![]()
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