In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author L.M. Whitaker discusses her debut novel, The Crucible of Steele. It is a fast-paced tech thriller that began with two questions: What if Charles Darwin’s contemporaries began a process for breeding the perfect human? And what if a modern-day woman with no living relatives has a chance encounter with a nearly identical twin, leading her to discover that she is the product of a 150-year eugenics experiment? In The Crucible of Steele, the science is real. Linda’s background is data science, and she has spent her career dealing with numbers, computer technology and artificial intelligence. If you are thinking that is a rather left-brained profession for a fiction writer, you’d be wrong. As Linda explains, it is all about problem-solving, and it is much more creative than people realize. In this episode, I’ll chat with Linda about her writing journey, her plans for a sequel, and how writing The Crucible of Steele was a race against time because the development of technology was happening so fast it was running away from her.
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