“I noticed that my stories could be very easily grouped into tales from the Past, tales from the Present, and tales from the Future. It opens with a story set in ancient Africa and closes with one set on a colony in the far reaches of space. It’s a little known fact that for a long time my working title for this collection was “Black to the Future.”“
Maurice talks about The Voices of Martyrs, abandoned stories, and what happens when a joke on a forum about Cockroach Vampires ends up spawning stories, all over on Mary Robinette Kowal’s website!