I loved how it added further complexity to the morality of the story. Thematically, the idea that the bad guys are “us” and we are fighting ourselves was a very juicy idea, to me. I’m a huge fan of the “alternate universe” episodes that various pieces of science fiction television create, and I enjoyed the first couple of seasons of Fringe, which gave me an easy comp title for the series when I was pitching it. I’ve been working on various versions of this world since I was nineteen or twenty, so it took a long time to develop and refine. Where did the idea for this come from? How challenging was it to tie everything up satisfyingly in only three volumes? The Worldbreaker Saga is incredibly complex, with parallel universes, magic derived from stars and sentient plants. There’s sentient plants, and star magic, and polyamorous matriarchies, and epic battles for control of the single world that is destined to survive the event. The Broken Heavens is the final book in the Worldbreaker trilogy, which follows the stories of five very different people thrust to the center of an ancient recurring event where multiple versions of other worlds try to annihilate each other. Would you be able to tell us a bit about it? Your latest novel, The Broken Heavens, is the concluding part of the Worldbreaker Saga and is out this month from Angry Robot.

Kameron was kind enough to talk to The Fantasy Hive about her latest novel and her writing career.

She is also well known for her nonfiction writing, collected in The Geek Feminist Revolution (2016). She has written feminist space opera The Stars Are Legion (2017), military SF The Light Brigade (2019) and the bugpunk trilogy the Bel Dame Apocrypha, God’s War (2010), Infidel (2011) and Rapture (2012). The Worldbreaker Saga is a dizzyingly inventive work of epic Fantasy, bringing together parallel universes, sentient plants and star magic whilst critiquing colonialism and exploring ideas around gender. Kameron Hurley is the award-winning author of The Worldbreaker Saga, comprising The Mirror Empire (2014), Empire Ascendent (2015) and now the final volume The Broken Heavens (2020) is out with Angry Robot.

The Mirror Empire by Kameron Hurley