Leckie: After three books, what became difficult was, I had to do a lot more construction. : What was the hardest part of switching away from the characters and cultures you'd already established in previous books? Reading and writing, I really enjoy seeing the way that a human culture that might be more or less understandable to us looks different when set next to a very, very different culture that almost might be unrecognizable. Writing the Geck ambassador was a lot of fun. : You showed interactions between really different human cultures, and with human and alien cultures, such as the Geck, as well. In this case, there isn't actually a particular culture, so I was just grabbing things that I thought looked cool and sticking them together. With the Radch, there was a very definite model it wasn't my only model, but the main model was the Roman Empire. I did do a fair amount of reading about art collection, about art fraud, about the history of museums in general. Leckie: I did, but there wasn't necessarily one in particular. : Did you incorporate any research into real-world science or culture into your world-building? That question of parents and children and family relationships became really central. Some people have it worse than others some people have it better than others. Do you want them do you not want them? Are they good are they bad? Often, they're both, or they have elements of either. That got me started thinking about also how that applies to families, and that became a major theme of the book: how people deal with their families, the kinds of things you inherit from your family. In some ways, it's a claim to have inherited a particular civilization or a claim to be the holders of that civilization. Leckie: When I was reading about the history of museums and, to a certain extent, the history of archaeology, I was really struck by the way that civic museums - places like The British Museum, the Met in New York - are, in some ways, a claim to a particular heritage … The standard path is Egypt, Greece, Rome, medieval Europe and then us, the modern era. : What were some of the themes you were excited to explore in the story? Ann Leckie, author of "Provenance." (Image credit: Orbit Books)
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