How the movie Interstellar led to the YA book BOUND BY STARS, a guest post by author E. L. Starling

How the movie Interstellar led to the YA book BOUND BY STARS, a guest post by author E. L. Starling

My family rewatches Interstellar together every year, which sometimes (read: always) devolves into a heated debate about complex theories, space time, and whether “they” really are aliens. In spring of 2022 as the credits rolled, my oldest teenager brought up a certain billionaire’s desire to terraform Mars. We all responded with a version of the same idea, “Of course. Damage one planet and abandon it for another.” But this idea led to curiosity…