Sue Burke on her next sci-fi novel Interference, colonization, and first contact

One of my favorite novels from last year was Sue Burke’s debut, Semiosis, which dealt with a fundamental issue when it comes to meeting aliens for the first time: how do you recognize intelligence, and once you do, how do you coexist with extraterrestrial life that is widely different from us? Later this year, Burke will publish a sequel to Semiosis, Interference, which builds on those questions.In Semiosis, an expedition from Earth crash-lands on a distant world called Pax. The crash str