In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Candace Kade discusses her new novel, Enhanced, book one in The Hybrid series. Enhanced is a young adult novel that blends cyberpunk with science fiction and is set in a part of our world known as the Asian Federation in the year 2123. This is a time when everyone has genetic enhancements, if they can afford them. The main character, a young woman named Lee Urban, unfortunately was born a Natural, someone lacking such enhancements. Lee’s genetic make-up places her in danger, and she plays a deadly game of trying to fit into the world of the Enhanced. In creating this novel, Candace asked the question: What would society look like if CRISPR and DNA modification really took off? The answer might just resemble the world she has created in this new series. In this episode, I’ll chat with Candace about her writing journey, how her experiences as an American child growing up in China provided insight for her main character, and how her dream since high school was to write at least one book set in Asia.
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