Somnium wouldn’t have been written at all, if I hadn’t spent my life on Shooters Hill. It’s a pretty strange place, especially when you start digging into its history. There’s a burial mound here that’s three to four thousand years old, and the woods that cover the hill are thought to be eight thousand years old. That’s almost back to the Ice Age. And there’s something about living on top of a hill that moulds your viewpoint. It’s not that you ‘look down’ on the people living around you, but it makes you feel different. There’s an awful lot of sky and a very wide horizon. So there’s geographical breadth and temporal duration. And I’m part of that. A native.
Somnium author Steve Moore interviewed by Pádraig Ó Méalóid on Forbidden Planet.
Pádraig hosts the excellent Glycon site where he recently also posted Steve and Alan’s Technical Vocabularies – Games for May, a short collection of poems.
