It’s a combination of that kind of grittiness to SF where everything’s not shiny and perfect. Salvation Day was a little bit of my attempt to capture the same feeling that you get when you watch the movie Alien for the first time. Īs to where it fits generically, I don’t know. So it’s a group of people who are trying to kill each other, stuck together on a spaceship, where other things around them are also trying to kill them. And once they all get there, everything starts to go wrong, and then everything goes more wrong. It’s about a group of people who don’t think of themselves as a cult but are absolutely a cult, who try to take over an abandoned spaceship using some hostages. I think they finally settled on calling it a thriller, but it has some horror elements in it as well. And then, for a long time, the working subtitle was Spaceship Full of Corpses. Kali Wallace: For a long time, the working title for Salvation Day was Death Ship. Find Salvation Day on Brilliant BooksĬhase Erwin: To start, could you just describe Salvation Day in your own words? It has been edited for concision and clarity. The following is a transcript from a live interview hosted on MAYDAY’s IG TV discussing Wallace’s first adult SF novel, Salvation Day. She now lives in San Diego, California, where she bakes and enjoys experimenting with craft cocktails. She is also the author of five books, including two YA fantasy/horror novels, Shallow Graves (2016) and The Memory Trees (2017), a middle-grade novel, The City of Islands (2018), and two works of adult SF, Salvation Day, published in 2019, and Dead Space, due to be published in March 2021, both from Berkeley Press. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of SFF magazines, including Clarksworld, R&SF, Asimov’s, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. Additionally, she is a graduate of the prestigious Clarion Workshop for SFF writers. She attended Brown University, where she took an undergraduate degree in Geology, and the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she completed a Ph.D. Kali Wallace was born and raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
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