Hallo, Hallo dear hearts!
I want to thank you for your patience! I have been steadily reading, no, a better word would be *devouring!* the end of the Trade Pact novels ahead of moving into the Reunification trilogy! You could say, my attention to focus on anything else has been ill-attempted, as I am even finding ways of bringing up the Clan & the Chronicles of their journey both on Cersi and within the Trade Pact universe each chance I can insert a small tidbit of my readings, due to how cross-relating the series has become for me!
You can take little nuggets of inspiration out of the Clan; their journey is not too unlike our own living history – they were attempting to build not only legacies of their culture, tradition and beliefs but they were determined to survive at all costs, once they felt they were in supreme danger! This has been true of the Clan since the very beginning – their entire saga is about how one cluster of people dared to think they could live ‘offworld’ amongst aliens they never knew in order to preserve their chances of survival in the long-term!
The reason I am thankful of your patience, is because as I hinted about when I concluded my readings of “Ties of Power” and “To Trade the Stars” – my readings have been delayed at different intervals these past few weeks due to extreme lightning storms! The last of which killed my computer but blessedly I was able to recover my personal files, which in of itself made the sting of the loss hurt less, as in the past, I’m used to having computers die without ever being able to get the files back! This made the transition a bit easier – as I have a lovely new computer in which to blog from and as I work towards understanding how to use it (ooh there is always such a strong learning curve when you make a switch!) I will be blogging my ruminative thoughts about “The Gate to Futures Past”.
The only hiccup really is that I had a bit of a migraine during the transitional process – as the settings on the new computer were affecting me a bit as the text was smaller than normal. I’m hoping to resume with the fierce focus I’ve had as soon as my migraine alleviates and thus, giving me the chance to share my impressions of the 8th Clan Chronicles novel! Don’t worry dear hearts – I sorted out the settings and moving forward from here, I shall not have a relapse!
I was able to release my review of “This Gulf of Time And Stars” – as foresaid, I haven’t been without the Clan for awhile now! Even during the most intensively driven storm raging outside, I’ve been reading the Clan! I’ve felt so hugged tight to Sira & Jason’s story – it surprised me a bit in the end, as originally I could never have fathomed how I could draw such a closely knitted connection to them, after Aryl & Enris!! I credit Czerneda for this – for if the Trade Pact hadn’t been a proper challenge to soak inside & fully understand all those moons ago in November when I first picked up “A Thousand Words for Stranger” – I would have completely been re-missive in knowing who Sira and Jason even were! I love being challenged by the books I am reading, and it was wicked wonderful knowing that if I hadn’t pushed myself forward to re-assert what was going on in Trade Pact space, I might have missed one of the best romances I’ve ever read!!
Being able to have a conversation with the author of a series that has become a beloved series of mine to read – where the joy of reading Science Fiction has returnt to me on the level I originally felt bewitched by what Sci-Fi can bring to your mind & imagination as a seventeen year old – is truly the blessing of reading Julie E. Czerneda’s Clan Chronicles! She’s not only re-inspired my mind for Science Fiction but she’s taken me on such a heart-centred journey into her character’s lives, I feel ever grateful for having spent the time I have with each of them! Even if they had to depart from the journey along the way, the moments I had with her characters are so cherished, I shall never quite forget the experience I’ve had reading about #whoaretheclan! Stories like these become fixtures in your heart and forever mark a standard of enjoyment that is hard to surpass!
I cannot wait to continue reading the collective works of Ms Czerneda once I read the very last page of the current release “The Gate to Futures Past” – knowing full well, it will be a very long, long wait til the final novel in Reunification releases next year! I’m on pins of anxiety already – I’ve come through the hardest bits thus far, and I cannot even imagine what shall await my eyes next year! I am bracing myself now, for Ms Czerneda has a way of surprising you whilst giving you an emotionally dramatic tale to etch itself into your own heart-print of memory!
If you are following the #futurespasttour,
I am thankful I can bring you a conversation about the series as a whole whilst encouraging you to read each trilogy in turn, if this is your first time finding The Clan Chronicles!
Be sure to stay afterwards and leave a comment or note for the author!
Remember: brew a cuppa & enjoy your visit!
About the Clan Chronicles:
The Clan Chronicles is set in a far future where a mutual Trade Pact encourages peaceful commerce among a multitude of alien and Human worlds. The alien Clan, humanoid in appearance, have been living in secrecy and wealth on Human worlds, relying on their innate ability to move through the M’hir and bypass normal space. The Clan bred to increase that power, only to learn its terrible price: females who can’t help but kill prospective mates.
Sira di Sarc is the first female of her kind facing that reality. With the help of a Human starship captain, Jason Morgan, himself a talented telepath, Sira must find a morally acceptable solution before it’s too late. But with the Clan exposed, her time is running out. The Stratification trilogy follows Sira’s ancestor, Aryl Sarc, and shows how their power first came to be as well as how the Clan came to live in the Trade Pact. The Trade Pact trilogy is the story of Sira and Morgan, and the trouble facing the Clan.
Reunification will conclude the series and answer, at last, #whoaretheclan.
And what will be the fate of all.
The Clan Chronicles | the reviews as they appeared on Jorie Loves A Story
Readings were in November, 2015 & August/September 2016 in multiples of four.
- Reap the Wild Wind (Stratification trilogy, No.1)
- Riders of the Storm (Stratification trilogy, No.2)
- Rift in the Sky (Stratification trilogy, No.3)
- A Thousand Words for Stranger (Trade Pact Universe, No.1)
- Ties of Power (Trade Pact Universe, No.2)
- To Trade the Stars (Trade Pact Universe, No.3)
- This Gulf of Time and Stars (Reunification, No.1)
- The Gate to Futures Past* (Reunification, No.2)
*arriving on #JLASblog as soon as I can finish my readings!
I eagerly await to read To Guard Against the Dark (Reunification, No.3) in October, 2017!!
How did you initially conceptionalise the Yena to live between sky and land? As their presence on Cersi was such a unique one and quite symbiotically tied to their trade agreements with the Tikitik. You gave us such a living sphere of Cersi, first through the planet’s living spirit and then through its people. I was curious the process you took to create such a vibrant world?
Czerneda responds: In the Trade Pact, we meet the Clan as part of a highly technological society, surrounded by comforts and civilization. They aren’t merely adverse to living away from those things; I make it clear they couldn’t, not without help. In a way they aren’t whole, being detached from the worlds on which they live. Strangers there, not part of the biology. In contrast, I wanted to show the ancestors of the Clan as very much part of a natural world. I wanted lush, vivid, perilous and beautiful, seemingly immutable yet subject to violence. The jungle canopy is all of that.
It’s also stratified, by what thrives at different levels of sunlight. Many organisms in the higher reaches never descend to the ground during their lifetime, though may fall as corpses. At the canopy’s top, anything with wings soars across what seems impenetrable and mysterious, much like the surface of an ocean. For the story to unfold, I needed all of that: to have the Yena Clan unable to descend, as if trapped, yet with a clear and instantly visible escape, to us. For if only they could fly.
Aryl’s name, in fact, came from my playing with words like aviation. Her experimental approach to flight gives credibility to her gradual mastery of her own ability—as well as illustrates how desperate she is to save her people. Life in the canopy is, after all, a struggle to survive.
As for the process? It’s pretty easy (delightful, fun, absorbing, and yes, distracting) for me to delve into any natural landscape, especially this one. I scoured used book stores for biographies of scientists working in the canopy. Trust me, entomologists are made of sturdy stuff. There have been some terrific documentaries on the jungle canopy, in particular Attenborough’s Planet Earth. The Tikitik life cycle owes something to his segment on figs and fig wasps.
It wasn’t all books. I’d go outside in wind storms to press myself against one of our large white pines. Close my eyes. There’s something profound in sharing the movements of such an immense living creature.
I have to admit, I hadn’t realised you see the Clan through scientific eyes first & foremost? It’s such an interesting clue into how you’ve managed to write their stories for two decades! I see them first as characters – of people who lived their whole lives adjacent a bit to the realities I knew myself in worlds that are not too far off into a future past my present & of whom have so much in common with all of us, more than they shall ever have apart. However, you see them first as their species and of where are in clan history; by their order and their classes. That’s interesting to me!
I love how you approached their living environs & in so doing, allowed them both to sort out how to adapt to how life can thrive even in places where you might first suspect it could not. You are not kidding! About how the lushness of Cersi is not without it’s darkness – how even there, in the midst of natural beauty & the joys of a more simplistic life, so too, do people struggle & sometimes their survival is placed in peril. I hadn’t sorted out the reason of the title for the prequel trilogy on the same level now as you’ve described it – I think I was approaching it from a different angle and missed something quite wicked obvious! I love how the title now eludes to the different layers of life – as for me, I went in a bit more blind and was caught up in how each species & race on Cersi had to be self-adaptive to their environs whilst being held accountable to their laws of life & procreation. Cersi is a complex place to live, that’s for sure!
Thank you for giving us a glimpse into your research & writerly process – you reminded me dearly of the animators I used to see on SciFi Channel (how I’m spelling this channel is aging me!) – they would start to embody the characters they wanted to render to life by seeking out ways to ‘experience’ what those animated composites of ‘us’ would be doing in those particular situations. I had a big smile on my face for how ingenious they were and how brilliant it must be to be an animator who can seek out ‘experiences’ for the sake of ‘research’.
I did have my own ‘tree hug’ moment – when I first saw the great trees in the NorthEast, I must admit, it was too startling of a discovery for a tree-loving girl like myself! I ran up, full of awe and pure happiness for what I was seeing and gave that tree a big *squeeze!* of love! The winds kicked up a bit at that point and I am not sure what surprised the tree more – the wind or the girl who couldn’t get her arms around it’s trunk? I heart trees. I even love hearing other people’s stories about their own interactions – bless you for sharing yours!
The Clan are quite acutely attached to their internal power and their ability to control their instincts therein. What did you use as a reference point to curate the arc of the series where this source of their power would ultimately overtake their stability to live without the fear of becoming lost inside its matrix?
Czerneda responds: String theory. Honest. Articles describing it landed on my lap when I was still writing A Thousand Words for Stranger and the imagery, of dimensions wrapped through and around one another, stuck with me. This gave me an underlying grip, so to speak, on what the Clan can/can’t do, and what the M’hir is. Plus I have notes. Copious ones. Their power and abilities aren’t the point of the story, but driving forces. Cool ones, I admit, and who wouldn’t be fond, but they never clouded the issue for me as I wrote. The point of the entire arc is how beings like the Clan could come to exist in the first place. You’ll learn in The Gate to Futures Past more of what I mean by that, I promise.
I had come to this realisation myself as I read contemplating the M’hir whilst reading one night – so much s – as nothing else quite made sense unless you applied string theory to how it reacts & acts whenever the Clan are using it to teleport! Even their interactions with the M’hir outside of ‘porting was quite startling, as you’ve given it this unique presence of thought, voice & reality of it’s own – even without visualising it directly, you can recognise the M’hir due to you descriptive tenacity for bringing it’s core to light for all of us.
As I was concluding “This Gulf of Time & Stars” I was seeing a hint of what was forthcoming next & I must say, it’s wicked incredible how your mind has fused all three trilogies together in such harmonic synchronicity! The further I was reading the series, as when I wrote these questions I hadn’t yet read TIES; the more understanding I was able to draw out about the M’hir & the internal core of what you were hoping we’d find within The Clan Chronicles. Incredible though – how string theory inspired such an interesting conduit of power!
There is a distinctive despondency within the Clan from where life on Cersi originated and life within the Trade Pact resumes; the journey is necessary but emotionally traumatic as well. How did you approach distancing the Clan from memories of Cersi as needed for them to ‘forget’ their origins yet feel a murmuring of truth out of the chaos to seek a place they could call home?
Czerneda responds: In Stratification, I knew I had to draw readers close to the Clan, especially Aryl and Enris, so they’d care about the journey and its outcome. Don’t forget, new readers then had the Trade Pact—and Sira and Morgan—ahead, to take them from that trauma to “normal times.” I suspect the feelings engendered at the end of Stratification were quite different for readers already familiar with the outcome, who’d come from reading the Trade Pact. They were waiting for the shoe to drop, for the bad news. The name “Bowman” for them? A bell in the distance. I’ll admit to enjoying knowing that as I wrote.
Stratification could never have a perfect happy ending. Satisfying, yes, but to give the backstory of the Clan meant showing how they came to live in secrecy and fear among humanity. I’d also established in A Thousand Words for Stranger that the Clan didn’t know their origin, but had theories, chief among them that they were somehow better, more powerful, than those left behind. When writing that book, over thirty years ago, I’d just wanted to make the Clan seem mysterious, not add to the current plot, but I like history to things. It seemed harmless enough.
Who knew where it would take the Clan, or me?
Yes, I keep forgetting that most of the readers who love reading the series entered through the Trade Pact & not Stratification like I had – thereby, they were moving backwards to Cersi rather than exiting Cersi to enter the Trade Pact! This might have been a bit easier for them as I struggled with alighting out of Cersi into this new region of Space that felt so very foreign & alien; in many ways, I understood why the Clan felt so uncomfortable on first arrival. Yes, I do agree – the connective threads with the Bowman name speak volumes towards how things are ‘inter-connected’ between the past & the present – though I suspect everything in the end will be connected: the Clan’s past, present & future will foretell where they go now.
Laughs. Harmless perhaps in intent, but I had such a strong connection to Cersi, for me, it felt so very alive and alarmingly striking towards seeing the Clan on their homeworld that I nearly wanted a few more bits to read whilst they were ‘there’ before proceeding forward. However, I resolved that when I finally understood the dimensional shift into the Trade Pact. The more I read, the more I understood – incredibly what truly helped me understand even more since I wrote these questions was through reading TIES & TRADE; concluding the Trade Pact stories gave me a different level of knowledge than I had when I made these enquiries as more things came to light & I, therefore, saw more of your vision for the Clan!
Throughout the Clan Chronicles, the Clan has been working counter-clockwise in some ways to understand what is not readily known and what was once living memory. How did you maintain the continuity throughout the three trilogies to where the entire breadth of the series remained so vividly alive in your own mind to transition us through each exit and entrance?
Czerneda responds: Grunt work. Continuity consists of plot, character, and world-building, in equal measure, but not of equal effort. The plot—the big one—I’ve had in my head for decades. The characters were old companions, as familiar to me as my toes. Where the work came in was in making sure I adhered to what was already in print. For readers, that’s set in stone.
So I studied the books as they were published, and stick a post-it note about any detail of the world (or character or subplot) that I had to address in Reunification.
Some were for fun. Reminding folks about Huido’s nephew would be an example. Lemmick breath. Some were poignant. Rael’s Chosen and his orchids. Others were crucial, especially any world-building that mattered to plot. That hat.
As for what the characters—particularly the Clan themselves—knew? Luckily, I’d set out from the onset that very few of them cared about their past and those who did we don’t meet in person. That opened the door in Reunification for me to bring those characters into play, where they could provide information in a natural manner. Not that what they knew was right either. What we remember—what we’re told or learn is true of the past before our memories? Mutable, changeable. Too often fleeting. Many people my age are struggling to capture what they can of their immediate family history, as parents grow older and forget. We’re grateful for a name written on an old photograph, because it may be the only clue we have. But is that name meaningful without stories? I deliberately made the Om’ray chose to forget their dead and acknowledge only the living, those they can sense with their mental powers. Made them dependent upon written records only a few could read. Made the modern Clan disrespect their own past. Made aliens the ones truly curious.
Because of how much the Clan’s past matters as the series concludes.
Thank you so much for including a photograph of your work-board where everyone can see how organised you were whilst writing the series! I was in awe of this board!! I hadn’t fully understood your prompts til I read myself straight into Reunification – now I know how much emotion is behind Rael’s Chosen & those orchids; how important Huido’s nephew was to what was happening on Plexis; how distressing Limmick breath can become; and what ‘that hat’ actually would mean to everyone!
You probably didn’t realise it – but this reply was such a riddle to me! I was trying to work it out but then, quite happily as I read, I understood. Boy! Did I understand!
I love how you proved that what you think you know is never truly what is necessary to understand was much as what is either forgotten or misplaced in time. The beauty is your layers – how you layer the structure of the world & the structure of the core of where the narrative is leading us to go. It’s such an incredibly dramatic story – I find each novel in turn unputdownable. I simply do not want to exit one volume to enter the next, as I feel so very connected to each in turn, as my mind expands through the Clan’s history, so does my empathy for all involved and the conflictions of what is happening. It’s beyond brilliant how you wrote this series!
As you’ve fully fleshed out this universe of the Clan to such a heightened degree of clarity of both vision and execution, what do you feel is going to be the hardest part of relinquishing your time with the Clan when the final curtain on the series draws close?
Czerneda responds: I’ve done the hardest part with Gate. Without doubt. What’s left is going to be the best fun writing I could imagine. Curtain closing?
Nope. To Guard Against the Dark is when I send up the fireworks!
Besides, I’ve Esen and Wisp and characters you’ve yet to meet waiting no-so-patiently in the wings. Finishing Sira and Morgan’s story feels right, to my core. I’m eager to have readers take that journey with me. Even more to have them follow me on the next.
Fireworks!? Ooh boy! I wasn’t sure by this reply if the Clan would have more to share & say after Reunification concludes… or if in the end, the end isn’t truly ‘the end’ as life will continue to move forward even if those future ‘stories’ are never heard or known, they will live inside the minds & hearts of the Clan who found their truer path & thrived. It’s always hard for me to say ‘good-bye’ to a series; I get so dearly attached… I’m addicted to reading serial fiction due to the breadth of how writers unite their vision into our own minds & hearts, but alas! Those good-byes! That’s where I sprout tears & my heart bleeds it’s grief… I pray for strength to know, I’m better for knowing the Clan, even if this is the final chapter,… might have to find some fireworks to send up to celebrate! Hmm. October, eh? Not the traditional time for fireworks! Laughs.
You given me so much to contemplate – I shall happily be pondering everything I’ve read & felt; whilst re-reading my reviews of the Clan Chronicles as I await DARK!
Thank you, Jorie, for these perceptive and wonderful questions, and for your love of this series. A true pleasure.
The honour was surely mine, Ms Czerneda!
A beautiful capstone to my readings of The Clan Chronicles and my personal journey to undertake the question: #whoaretheclan?
For me, they are a legacy of characters & worlds I shall never truly forget meeting. This series has enriched my heart & mind by it’s presence. Bless you for including me on the journey towards seeing how the Clan found peace & solace.
I positively *loved!* the origins of Aryl’s name!
Ahead of this conversation, I was invited to share why I *love!* reading the collective works of Julie E. Czerneda via Little Red Reviewer!
Be sure to visit this post, to see what was shared by those of us celebrating the author’s works! Add your own memories inside the comments, too! As well as leaving feedback to Ms Czerneda underneath this interview! Be sure to visit the author’s site to find out about the #futurespasttour giveaway being hosted on other tour stops, as well!
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Thank you!!!
Hallo, Hallo Ms Czerneda!
You’re wicked welcome!! :) I had such a blast filling in the latter half of this convo! I had to take a small break from my readings of GATE yesterday as I was overly exhausted from pushing myself a bit too hard to read it the day before! Clearly, I need a bit more ‘slumber’ as you said, than I was giving myself credit for as I was up long after the rest of the world had turnt in and then re-started their next day! lol I’m rested now and I cannot wait to re-delve into where I left off as my heart is nearly pounding with anticipation of what I am going to see happening the closer I move towards the conclusion… twelvemonths is going to be a trial in patience for me! As I am sure for all readers who are heart-tied to the Clan!
I cannot wait to share my thoughts and reactions on GATE! Such a blessing being a part of your #futurespasttour!
great interview with an amazing author!
Hallo, Hallo! :)
I wanted to tag you on Twitter earlier, but we had another strong lightning storm – I had to hop off before I could alert you of this interview! So blessed you’ve found it! I had such a lot of joy putting this conversation together!!
Wicked happy you loved our convo!! I completely agree – she’s a brilliant author!!