The author’s red-hot Dark Star Trilogy continues this spring.
“Once I drew an early version of this map, it started to influence the story.”
“Turns out that a lot can happen in six months,” James says.
Marlon James is the author of ‘Moon Witch, Spider King’.Credit: Mark Seliger; Riverhead Books
“Like your entire family forgetting who you are.”
“It’s not lost on the dirty minds of the residents of each city.”
The Sunken City
The jungle is whereMoon Witch’s heroine Sogolon lives for 100 years.
A map created by Marlon James for ‘Moon Witch, Spider King’.Riverhead Books
“But now it’s a wild jungle.”
The Names
Some are based on actual places (Mogadishu became Wakadishu).
Some are tongue-in-cheek tributes to fantasy icons (Ororo, a.k.a.
the X-Men’s Storm, inspired Omororo).
And “some just sound good when said aloud,” James says.
