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Wonderblood is the first novel written by my partner, Julia Whicker. It is a fantasy novel that projects early modern Europe onto a future of the United States ravaged by deadly prion pathogens that have infected the Earth. Survivors wait in vain at Cape Canaveral, Florida — a new “Vatican City” — for the return of astronaut “saviors.” I chose this book because it represents the beauty of words and the power of stories that inspired, and continues to inspire, my own writing.