![]() They were all religious but could never agree with one another. Lynda Williams: Perhaps it started with the arguments about religion among my fathers’ siblings. What inspired your interest in cultural drift and change? Now, upon re-encountering one another, they are confused by different cultural customs that have developed. ![]() Spec Can: In your Okal Rel Saga you explore two civilizations, the Reetions and the Gelacks, who both descended from Earth populations but were cut off from each other and Earth and culturally drifted over the years. On the whole, in antithesis to the deconstructionist era in literary studies, my goal has been to construct meaning wherever I find pre-existing maxims unsatisfying. In some ways, I’ve always been an observer of life requiring a conscious effort to mimic what comes naturally to others, and felt most at home in fiction where everything has some kind of meaning. My intellectual life has been equally important to me as a person. Anyone interested in more about my work as an applied technologist and teacher of computing is welcome to check out my profile at LinkedIn ![]() ![]() Lynda Williams: I’m a nice middle-class girl who went to university, got a good job, got married, raised three great daughters and once led a grass-roots movement to get internet connectivity for the general public. Author and family photo courtesy of Lynda Williams ![]()
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