![]() I could tell that they were couples, even though they weren’t talking to each other or physically interacting, except to nudge one other to share something on their phones. ![]() The premise of The Key to Fear came to me while I was at a pizza shop back in 2014, standing in line behind a group of teens. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, so, for my entire adolescence and early 20s, I’ve been fascinated by viruses, reading books and articles about it. I read Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone when I was in middle school and was convinced I’d one day work at the U.S. ![]() ![]() It’s not the first time a deadly pandemic has threatened humanity. A lot of friends have joked that I must be clairvoyant and I should write about something happy next! I first had the idea of The Key to Fear six years ago, so I wasn’t inspired by this pandemic, but by those of the past. It felt like the fictional world had bled into our real world. I finished the last copyediting on this book in February, when all the lockdown stuff where I live in Portland was beginning. What has it been like living through a real-life pandemic while working on and thinking about this book and its speculative premise? ![]()
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