Ji:Could you introduce ‘We Built This City’，which was nominated for the Nebula Award?
Marie:I was raised by a single father, a construction worker, a laborer in the AFL-CIO. The very first short story I ever wrote, aside from school assignments and the “novels” which I started writing with great hubris in elementary school, was about spies organizing a union on the moon. So I’ve written a lot of stories that feature worker’s rights, but I had yet to really write a story about unionizing, about a strike. I wanted to do that, but was frustrated with the scope. Strikes are long, gruelling affairs, stretching over years, and are often finished by different people than started them. Still, I wanted to see what I could fit in a short story.
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