Interview With Author Noam Josephides
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I’ve been writing forever – from starting my “great adventure novel” at 9 years-old (which ended with 8 scribbled pages in my notebook) to writing full feature-length movie screenplays. Not to mention fake Tooth-Fairy letters to my 3 kids (which I’m proud to say did pretty good with the audience).
I am also a serial technology entrepreneur with numerous successful companies founded, and a past as an Airforce Captain.
“Generations” is my debut novel, after mainly writing for the screen. Really exciting format with so many options you can’t really achieve on camera!
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Generations” is a soft science fiction mystery set on a “Generation Ship” carrying humans to resettle on a new planet.
The plot is a political conspiracy mixed with a personal story, led by an awesome female protagonist who’s smart, sharp and seriously vulnerable in so many aspects đ
I started the journey that became âGenerationsâ as the COVID crisis was taking over the world, and many âperfect stormsâ seemed to align simultaneously: political forces, economic power structures, social patterns and the media chaos around the notion of âtruthâ â all unraveled their underlying nature under the weight of global stress.
Enter the rise of Artificial Intelligence a year later, and things started moving so fast on such fundamental levels of our modern existence, that one had to start asking themselves: who has the power to make basic decisions about my life? What are the boundaries of oneâs responsibility to our community, family, self? And what are the foundational values that make us human, and that we envision our future generations to uphold?
Science Fiction was the perfect stage to engage in such discussions, and the story opened up as more traditions, assumptions and âknown truthsâ about our life were allowed into that speculative experiment lab.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I can write everywhere – car passenger seat, airport terminal, coffee shops, wherever. The one thing that gets me in the “zone” is a special playlist I’ve compiled and keep listening to in a loop while writing. An ambiant, spacey music which doesn’t distract me. I must’ve contributed thousands of listening hours to the bands on that playlist on Spotify lol!
What authors, or books have influenced you?
My all-time favorite book is Shibumi, written by the mysterious thriller writer Trevanian.
My Scifi genre master would be Heinlin, and especially “Time Enough for Love”.
What are you working on now?
Readers of “Generations” will discover a link at the end of the book to a free short story focusing on one of the minor characters and storylines in the novel. I’ve been writing that story lately, and now I am already working on the outline for the next book in the “Generations” universe – there’s so much to discover!
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.”
And in our terms – write what fulfils YOU. What makes you laugh and sad and enraged. Writing is so hard and lengthy and lonely that you can’t really fake interest in something just because “it trends now”.
What are you reading now?
“City on Fire” – a mammoth 1,000 page book set in 1970s New York.
What’s next for you as a writer?
“Generations” will be a trilogy so those are my next planned projects.
Adapting the stories to the screen is also an enticing idea I’m playing with đ
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
“Island Cooking for the Kitchenless”?
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