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Liam Begley : Broken Interstellar: Unions, Space, and Imagining Different Ways of Being
What would interstellar governance look like if labor unions—not empires—ruled the stars?
Liam Begley, author of the one-dollar sci-fi adventure Broken Interstellar: A Union Worker's Space Opera, joins us to discuss his debut novel, the realities of self-publishing, and how science fiction helps us imagine different ways of being.
Liam Begley wrote Broken Interstellar as a fun, light adventure novel—but the story pulled through his lens as a longtime member of the highly unionized, yet deeply hierarchical, Vancouver film industry. The result is a space opera about labor unions of spacers…
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