The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Rachel Kushner’s Booker prize-shortlisted novel Creation Lake, a thrilling climate fiction novel that follows the adventures of a US spy-for-hire, Sadie Smith, as she tries to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists in France. This week, our sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson caught up with Kushner to share her appreciation for what she describes as a “sensationally enjoyable” read, picking Kushner’s brain on the inspiration behind her anti-hero protagonist and the ultimate writer’s task of imagining our contact with Neanderthals.
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