An inside look at the final chapter of an incredible science fiction-fantasy trilogy.
Deborah Harkness has brought the world of A Discovery of Witches back to life with the third book in the trilogy, The Book of Life. This truly spans the geeky realms with witches and vampires, time travel, and science labs all thrown together in pursuit of one ancient book. Here are a few things we learned after sitting down to talk about the trilogy's final installment:
"I really wanted to explore things like what happens when you're raised by an aunt or aunts, not your parents because your parents have died, or you're adopted into a family like Matthew was, and like Diana and Matthew do for Annie and Jack, and a kind of a version of a nuclear family so to speak with Diana and Matthew. I wanted to show that there were a wide range of ways you can mother."
"Magic was technology that brought things that were far away close, made things that were invisible visible, and made it possible for you to communicate with people who were far away. And if you think about all of the modern technology that we have, our modern tech — internet, computers, Google, all these things — are kind of the wish list of what people turned to magic for in the 16th century."