JCP: I suppose people are just more interesting to me when I show them “warts and all.” I’ve discovered I can get away with quite a lot if I show sufficient and logical cause for the person acting the way they do. They are alcoholics, intentionally impoverished, smelly, and at times downright cranky, and yet, you make them endearing. Most strictly contemporary pieces focused on relationship don’t have enough action to hold my attention.Īs for limitations, I sometimes find it hard to describe my science fiction because it is often that subtle-with-one-different-element, but the SF label drives away readers who think Sci Fi is always about aliens and spaceships.īA: Quite a few of your characters aren’t always the most likeable of people. I have a hard time working in any other genre, with the exception of maybe thriller. And that difference changes everything, it has a ripple effect where changes in the world are sometimes big or sometimes subtle, but pervasive and far-reaching. What I really like is something set in the world as we know it, with one minor difference. JCP: I write the type of works that I love to read, and my favorite sort of fiction is speculative. What do you like about working in the urban scifi genre? What are its limitations? Let’s dig right in!īA: What I love about your works, is how you can use modern language, familiar to the reader, and yet still create these fantastic science fiction worlds. I’m a huge fan of hers, and have read quite a bit of her work, so when Scott mentioned that JCP would be up for an interview, I did the fanboy Muppet flail. Brock from Queer Sci Fi, and I have the pleasure of interviewing Jordan Castillo Price today on our blog.

Magic Mansion by Jordan Castillo Price