E lily yu on fragile waves5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Guy perhaps five years ago, while reading Krista Tippett’s Becoming Wise, which excerpts a beautiful interview she conducted with Br. Guy Consolmagno for fact-checking and correction. What I would have said a week ago is that I was struck suddenly by the idea of Jesuits on the moon, an idea that felt entirely natural and appropriate, likely as a result of reading Teilhard de Chardin and a longer-form project I recently finished that I wrote several pages of the story sitting at a Barnes and Noble signing table, in between conversations with curious browsers and that, when I realized the depths of my ignorance, I reached out to Br. Lily Yu: I think I am not the most reliable respondent in this case, although there isn’t an alternative. What was your starting point or inspiration for the story?Į. Uncanny Magazine: “The Father Provincial of Mare Imbrium” is a story of religion and science, set on a remote lunar colony. “The Father Provincial of Mare Imbrium” is her fourth story in Uncanny, a beautifully crafted tale of suppressed research, set in a Jesuit lunar colony. More than thirty of her stories have appeared in venues from McSweeney’s to Tor.com, as well as thirteen best-of-the-year anthologies, and have been finalists for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy Awards. She received the Artist Trust LaSalle Storyteller Award in 2017 and the Astounding Award for Best New Writer in 2012. ![]() Lily Yu is the author of On Fragile Waves, which received the Washington State Book Award, and Jewel Box, which is forthcoming in 2023. ![]()
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