{"id":3165,"date":"2018-04-04T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/?p=3165"},"modified":"2018-03-29T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T09:51:26","slug":"the-story-behind-the-story-requiem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/2018\/04\/04\/the-story-behind-the-story-requiem\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind the story: Requiem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/futures\">Futures<\/a> is delighted to welcome Christine Lucas with her story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-03929-4\"><em>Requiem<\/em><\/a>. A former Air\u00a0Force\u00a0officer from Greece, Christine has written for a variety of publications. Here, she\u00a0reveals the inspiration behind her latest tale \u2014 as ever, it pays to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-03929-4\">read the story first<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writing <em>Requiem<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Requiem<\/em> was born from my partner\u2019s fascination with the ancient astronaut theory. After watching one documentary too many about how aliens built the pyramids, my mind started to wonder. If aliens did visit Earth in the distant past, is that all they did? Built things and conversed with kings and sages? But what if they did more, some of them? What if there were some odd ones who liked to mingle with the primitives for reasons other than exchanging bodily fluids (and, apparently, DNA)?\u00a0 Some of them might even be foodies and develop a fondness for Terran cuisine.<\/p>\n<p>And perhaps some of them strayed a little too far from the mothership, and learnt a thing or two on their journey.<\/p>\n<p>Scent and taste can stir up long-forgotten memories and powerful emotions. And so, <em>Requiem<\/em> became the story of one final pilgrimage to a place of life-shaping experiences before launching off to the next level of existence and a whole new adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Futures is delighted to welcome Christine Lucas with her story Requiem. A former Air\u00a0Force\u00a0officer from Greece, Christine has written for a variety of publications. Here, she\u00a0reveals the inspiration behind her latest tale \u2014 as ever, it pays to\u00a0read the story first.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/2018\/04\/04\/the-story-behind-the-story-requiem#more-3165\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/2018\/04\/04\/the-story-behind-the-story-requiem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/futureconditional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}