![]() ![]() I'd always gazed in envy at the literary world and for a year I'd been part of it, been to literary festivals and done readings, and I absolutely loved it. From the meeting that followed came a two-book deal, for Terra and the 2015 sequel Terra’s World, both following a young girl who is accidentally orphaned by a extraterrestrial visiting Earth, who then whisks her away to be brought up on an alien planet. ![]() So Benn went straight to Orion’s offices, and asked to speak to the person in charge of Gollancz’s Twitter account. Gollancz, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of publisher Orion, replied that he should write a book for them. In the summer of 2011, kicking his heels around London while waiting for his son’s passport to be renewed, Benn tweeted that he was bored and asked for suggestions for what to do. To be honest, I’ve never really found out what happened.” ![]() “At one point I was told they’d all sold out, and they had to print some more. “Or maybe sales were just crap?” Benn says now. The Guardian described Terra as “both comic and satirical, earning comparison with Douglas Adams, Roald Dahl and Terry Pratchett – yet Benn’s extraterrestrial fable has its own distinct voice.” Perhaps nobody actually liked his sci-fi novel Terra, he muses, when it was published in 2013 – to good reviews across the board, it must be said. ![]()
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