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Ray Naylor

Ray Naylor

Science fiction author; Hugo and Locus Award-winning writer of The Mountain in the Sea and The Tusks of Extinction

Jun 21, 2026

12:41
Can you talk a little bit about why this setting and why this time, this space for this book?
12:47
Yeah.
12:47
So the book is set in Lithuania.
12:50
Originally it was going to be set in Belarus, but I can't go to Belarus to do research.
12:55
And I'm the kind of person that really wants to like literally get my hands dirty.
12:58
So, you know, at one point I was in a forest meadow down on my hands and knees photographing every single plant that I could find so that I could look each one of them up and make sure that when I described the plants in the books, they were the actual plants that are in the Lithuanian forest.
13:13
And so...

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23:26
Is that fair to say?

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