Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times.

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of war, the nature of war, the ethical ambiguities of war, are introduced too late to children. I think they can hear them, understand them, know about them, at a much younger age without being scared to death by the stories.

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.

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